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Charles Leander Rand cabin photograph album, page 41

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  • Upper left: Sorghum. 200 years ago when the people migrated into the mountains they found this plant growing wild. In the stalk is a juice that looks like milk and is very sweet as they had no sugar they conceived the idea of crushing out the juice and boiling it down until it looks like and tastes like a cross between molasses and maple sugar. It is called sorghum. They used it for all sweetening. They still make it and use it on their corn bread. You can buy it in some of the stores. October 1957 Upper middle: Sorghum. The stalks are bent due to a windstorm. They strip the leaves off and feed them to the cattle. There is a lady behind the bunch of stalks to the left she didn't want her picture taken. After the juice is squeezed out they feed the stalks to the cattle. October 1957 Upper right: The stalks are squeezed between two wheels. A mule is hitched to the right end of the large pole and by a rope his head is hitched to the little pole at the left so he has to go round and round. A man kneeling down so the pole will not hit him feeds the stalks between the wheels. These wheels are iron but earlier they were of wood. September 1957 Lower left: 40. Tobacco field of man in picture 35. November 1958 Lower middle: Cabin nestled in a remote hollow. September 1958 Lower right: Boiling the sorghum juice is just like boiling down sap to make maple syrup. September 1957
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