All Gone …

Houck's Gin, Cameron, S.C., dismantled February, 2018 All prima facie evidence of my family’s agriculture history is now gone. My grandfather, Bernard “B.C.” McCollough Houck, was one of eleven children.  Born in 1900, he died  as a young man at the age of 52.  I barely remember him; I called him “Mr. C.”; I would have been two. The impressionable occasion was when he took me to the carnival rides at the Waynesville Township High…

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Rubber for Cotton

Josh Riley of Cameron, S.C. manages a repair service for farm equipment.  Now is the height of the cotton picking season in the Four Hole Swamp area of Low Country S.C.  Image from the Cotton Tale: A Century Family, Farm, and Industry.  

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A bowl of cotton soup …

  It is cotton-picking season in the Low-Country of South Carolina and what picks cotton today are not people but spindles ... 3,360 of them to be exact on a six-row John Deere Model 7660 cotton harvester

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Peanuts …

  40,000 pounds from 10 acres ... These peanuts were grown as seed stock for their high oleic and omega-3 fatty acid content which pragmatically doubles the peanuts' shelf-life.  Next comes weighing and grading in Cameron, S.C., shipping to  a processor in Virginia where they will be treated with a fungicide and insecticide, loading into 50 lb bags,  returning to Cameron, S.C., and sold to the farmers for planting in the spring time. @ Houck…

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