Cotton Picking Books
This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin
Left: cotton picking book from Horecky Cotton Gin in Church Point used by Joe Savoy in 1947
Right: cotton picking book from the Opelousas Oil Mill Lou Ana Salad and Shortening where cotton seeds would be pressed and turned into cottonseed oil
This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin
Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin – Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.
Sometime in the early 1880s, the first cotton gin in Church Point was built by Valentin Breaux and in 1890, his competitor Homer Barrouse opened another. The ginning business was dominated by Joseph Ernest Daigle, who opened multiple gins…