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Does anyone else remember telling a man in a booth, "No cotton" crossing state lines?
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:42 pm
When we lived in Vidalia, we said it as we reached the Mississippi riverbank. It was to let them know we weren't transporting any agricultural goods across the state line.
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:45 pm to chinese58
Sounds like a racist code for something
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:47 pm to chinese58
Gotta pay the troll toll
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:50 pm to chinese58
Yep. Remember being asked that or something similar by someone in a booth when crossing the river on the old narrow Highway 80 bridge at Vicksburg.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:53 pm to chinese58
No, but earlier I was knocking cotton, and had to go to the bathroom
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:54 pm to chinese58
If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have told my own no cotton stories
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:34 pm to SeabrookTiger
That's only if you're trying to put it in some boy's hole.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 12:02 am to SeabrookTiger
quote:to get that boys soul.....or hole?
Gotta pay the troll tol
Posted on 7/13/18 at 12:41 am to chinese58
Yep.
Mississippi did not have cotton boll weevils and was trying to keep it that way. Didn’t want their cotton crops infected.
No idea if they succeeded or not.
Mississippi did not have cotton boll weevils and was trying to keep it that way. Didn’t want their cotton crops infected.
No idea if they succeeded or not.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 12:51 am to chinese58
Don’t remember that but you have to stop going to Lake Tahoe when entering California from Nevada and tell them you aren’t carrying fruit.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 6:33 am to Bullfrog
quote:
Mississippi did not have cotton boll weevils and was trying to keep it that way. Didn’t want their cotton crops infected. No idea if they succeeded or not
Interesting...
They apparently did not succeed, as there are now boll weevils pretty much everywhere in the south. Mississippi does have an organized boll weevil eradication program that has controlled them very well.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 7:00 am to chinese58
Yeah, I remember that now that you mention it. That was a long time ago.
I'm going to ask my brother about it. He remembers everything.
I'm going to ask my brother about it. He remembers everything.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 7:09 am to chinese58
It was supposed to prevent the spread of the Pink Bollworm to east of the river.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 7:27 am to chinese58
I was just a child back then but I seem to remember them asking about fruit, not cotton.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 7:29 am to chinese58
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This post was edited on 11/16/21 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:13 am to montrose
quote:You must be correct, the weevil hit MS in 1907. MS State Bollweevil Info
It was supposed to prevent the spread of the Pink Bollworm to east of the river.
But thanks for the history lesson OP. Yeah, LA eradicated. We sprayed many gallon of ULV Malathion in 1999.
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