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SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS 



The Oliver Cotton Picking Machine, advertised by Stern 

 & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois. 



The Thurman Vacuum Cotton Picking Machine, manufac- 

 tured by Vacuum Cotton Picking Machine Company, St. Louis, 

 Missouri. 



The Price-Campbell Cotton Picking Machine, invented by 

 Angus Campbell, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and exploited by 

 Theodore Price, New York City. 



It seems safe to predict that the time is near at hand when 

 cotton-picking machines will harvest a part of the crop where 



FIG. 157. VERTICAL SECTION THROUGH DIXIE COTTON PICKER 

 WHEN AT WORK. 



the conditions for their work are most favorable and where labor 

 is scarce or expensive. The chief difficulty in the way of their 

 rapid introduction is the high price at which it is now proposed 

 to sell these mechanical pickers. 



341. Ginning. After being picked, the seed cotton is 

 hauled to the gin, which is usually a public ginnery, oper- 

 ated by steam power (Fig. 158). There suction pipes lift 

 it from the wagon, and suitable devices carry it through 



