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SOUTUERN FIELD VROPS 



The Oliver Cotton Picking Machdne, advertised bj' Stern 

 & Sons Company, Chicago, lUinois. 



The Thurman Vacuum Cotton Piol<ing Machine, m.anufao- 

 tured by Vacuum Cotton Picliing Maciiine Company, St. Louis, 

 ]\Iissouri. 



The Price-Campbell Cotton Pieldng Machine, invented by 

 Angus Campbell, Pittslmrg, 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. 1.57. — Veiitic.\l Section thdoitgh Dixie Cotton Picker 

 WHEN .\r Work. 



the conditions for their work are most fuAorable and where labor 

 is scarce or expensive. The chief diffi<-ulty in the way of their 

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

 to sell these mechanical ijiclvers. 



341. Ginning. — After Itoiug ]")icked, tho sood cotton is 

 hauled to tho a;iii, which is usually a jiuhlic ginuery, oper- 

 ated hy steam ]iower (Fig. 158). There suction pipes lift 

 it from the wagon, and suitable devices carry it through 



