I remember my father talking about the government paying folks not to grow certain crops too. I don't know anything about growing cotton, but Daddy told me that he always was late getting to start to school in the fall because they had to get the cotton crop in before they could get back in school. I climbed in the old wagon with my grandpapa one morning when I was little to go help him pick cotton in the field behind their house. Wasn't nearly as much fun as I thought it would be, and when he went back to the fields after lunch guess who stayed at the house with Grandmama.