On TAGS, I think the writers used overalls as a shortcut to say to the viewers
"Hey everyone, this person is a farmer". When you only have 30 minutes, you
have to learn to do shortcuts. Kinda like when someone comes out on the stage
with floppy shoes, and a big red nose, we know immediately that person is
supposed to be a clown or a funny person.
On the subject of making money, down here in middle America during the 50's and
60's, a kid could make all the money he wanted to make. He could make as much
as a grown man all summer long. There were great number of crops needing to be
harvested. With so many crops, the farmers were not picky about the age of the
workers as long as the boy was big and strong. I started at the age of 12
making a man's wage ($1.00 an hour). There was cotton to be hoed, hay to be
hauled, broomcorn to be cut, cotton to be picked, pecans to be gathered. Many
times, children were taken out of school to work in the harvest. And don't
worry about children getting independently wealthy, because their parents took
95% or more of their wages. Different reasons were given for the confiscation
(buying school clothes, saving for college, etc), but the results were the
same, children were not allowed to have large sums of money. Sadly, now a days
machines do all of the harvesting and children are deprived of the joy of
working and learning the value of a dollar. Some of my happiest days on earth
were spent in the harvest fields with my friends.
Orville Hendricks - The butter and egg man. Now all I harvest is the feed for
my chickens.
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