52 COTTON 



cleans the cotton by traversing the full length of each spindle. This 

 stripping wheel is better termed a slotted wheel which revolves rapidly 

 in the opposite direction to that which the spindle or picking fingers are 

 traveling; and after clearing the cotton from the fingers, it is carried 

 up to a point where a set of doffer wheels clears the slotted wheel of its 

 load of cotton, throwing the same into a basket which rides on the rear 

 of the machine. The machine weighs about 1200 pounds, has a raising 

 and lowering device upon it which is essential in getting in and out of 

 the cotton field as well as in turning around." 



