Farmers in the cotten field

Those farmers really know how to con the con man. I found this part of the novel both sad but hilarious at the same time. There are now quite a few jobs available picking cotton and a lot of the migrant farmers are taking advantage of this. At first they only allow the farmers with bags for cotton picking to have the jobs, but then they allow people to buy the special cotton picking bags on credit from the land owners. I found this to be a bit ridiculous. Buying supplies for a job from the employer like in that situation is just weird. Then on top of that the farmers have scales to see how much the workers get each day, but they have scales that are off. They always are lower than what the workers have actually obtained. But the hilarious part of this section of the novel is that the migrant farmers that are working in the cotton fields started to put rocks in the bottom of their bags so it weighs more. Now I know that the farmers are cheating in a sense, but the wealthy land owners did it first. That sounds kind of childish but the migrant farmers have already gone through so much that I think its okay that they do a little to have some personal gain. I think it would be hilariously ironic if the messed up scales and the rocks in the bags actually balanced each other out and the farmers got what they worked for and the land owners paid what they were supposed to in the first place. This whole situation is quite clever on the part of the famers. They only do it to the corrupt farmers though so it seems like it is okay to do. Even though the migrant farmers are in a sense cheating I think that everybody that reads this is truly wanting the farmers to do so to get a little gain for themselves.