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COTTON CULTUEE. 



A. and IB represent respectively the first and second 

 stories of a gin-house. V S (Fig. 8) is a vertical shaft, with 

 horizontal arms, to which horses are attached at h and A, 

 which pull around in the dotted path. At the south end 

 of the building, 8 represents an iron screw working in a 

 strong frame, and driven upward by a mule, m, towards 

 .P, the packing-box, which opens in the second story. 



6r, in this story, (Fig. 9,) is the gin, which discharges gin- 

 ned cotton into L the lint room, where it is picked up by the 



Fig. 8 



Fiff. 9. 



armful, and thrown into the packing-box ; W, W, TFJ TFJ 

 are windows, so placed as to throw strong light on 6r, the 

 gin, and P, the press ; the short lines, M, M, represent a 

 double open staircase, up which the seed-cotton is carried 

 on the shoulders of the laborers. They go up one flight, 

 and down the other, so as not to interfere with each other. 

 In the latter part of the picking season, after the fall 

 rains set in, much of the cotton which comes from the 



