John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

The cotton picker was patched up, and harvest resumed. Crisis averted, or so the crew thought. Six days later, two round ...

is your neighborhood reporter for Robstown and western Nueces County. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — On Monday, The Cotton Picker Centennial Celebration took place in Robstown, a time for the community to ...

Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes’s farm there were 15,000 of them—come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.

There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...

Rosharan, Texas — Hi, y’all! We have been able to pick cotton for a few days now. The weather has been OK. We are dealing with late starts and quitting earlier. There is too much moisture in the ...

Here we are … in another week of harvest. The kids and I started our week still in south Texas harvesting milo. We cut milo for a couple more days. We were able to wrap up our milo harvest for 2022 ...

Uzbek Forum for Human Rights (Uzbek Forum) today published its report on the 2023 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. Monitoring in 23 districts in five regions revealed that although forced labor in the ...

ROBSTOWN, Tx — This Saturday, 55 groups from all over Texas will gather at Robstown Early College High School for the annual El Cotton Picker Mariachi Festival. “It means a lot to me, especially since ...

A Missourian and graduate of the University of Missouri, DOROTHY OTIS WYREnow makes her home in Conway, Arkansas. She is the author of “Hunting,”which appeared in the October, 1952, Atlantic. EVERY ...