[Young Boys Man the Sorghum Press]
Description:
Narrative by Junebug Clark in the summer of 2014
One mule powers this grinding mill where sorghum cane is pressed, then the juice is extracted and boiled down into molasses. Here three young boys take turns feeding stalks of sorghum cane into the mule drawn press.
Overall Background: These Molasses Making Stir-off photos were shot by Joe Clark HBSS in the early to mid-1940s. Either on the farm of Fred Whitaker about four miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, or in Cumberland Gap on the farm of B…
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Date:
194X
Creator:
Clark, Joe
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