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result when a cheap, simple, and durable cotton-picker 

 shall be on the market. Recent successful public tests 

 of at least two very different cotton-pickers point to the 

 day of cotton-picking by machinery. 



Farm buildings. Not only are implements needed in 

 farming, but also convenient farm buildings for sheltering 

 implements, live-stock, and crops. A building too often 

 absent from a cotton farm is a shed under which to store 

 bales of cotton. If cotton is left exposed in winter, as in 

 Fig. 215, there is a considerable loss in the quality and price 

 of the lint. 



EXERCISE. Write in your notebook a list of the kinds of plows you 

 have seen. How many kinds of harrows have you seen? Ask your 

 parents to tell you some of the farm implements that they consider 

 most useful. Write this list in your notebook and also what each is 

 used for. What farm or household work needs some new inventions 

 to make it lighter? 



NOTE TO THE TEACHER. Pictures of farm implements shown 

 during the recitation will interest the class. By writing a postal to 

 some hardware companies or to manufacturers of farm implements, you 

 will often find them willing to send free catalogues containing pictures 

 of farm machinery. Addresses of manufacturers can be obtained from 

 the advertising columns of almost any agricultural paper, an old copy 

 of which some pupil can probably bring you from home. 



