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Cotton pickers are at the heart of this process, performing the heavy-duty task of collecting cotton from the fields quickly and effectively. However, the effectiveness of these machines depends ...

where John Rust began a tryout of an improved picker, a pioneering plantation harvested the first commercial cotton crop ever produced, from planting to baling, entirely by machine. Hopson’s ...

The machine knocks some cotton to the ground, leaves some open bolls unpicked. It takes up more leaves and trash than Negro pickers do. There was no scientific measurement at last week’s ...