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Show NEW MACHINE PICKS COTTON Harvester Recently Demonstrated Which Sucks Lint Out of Bolls by Use of Compressed Air. While the South has been concentrating concen-trating Its entire attention at present on the question of the marketing of this year's cotton crop, a coton manu-facurer manu-facurer of Westbrook, Me., has been perfecting machine which, if what is claimed for it is true, is of more vital concern to the production of this great 6taple than all the subsidies and bond issues that the federal government could be Induced to grant, says Boston Bos-ton Transcript. This Is a cotton harvester, har-vester, recently demonstrated at Falr-wold, Falr-wold, S. C, where It picked cotton sue cessfully by sucking the lint out of the bolls by compressed air, somewhat on the order, apparently, of the vacuum cleaner. Its economical value has not been proved, and it Is also said to have the defect of picking dried leaves along with the cotton, but the inventor inven-tor claims that this objection will be overcome by the employment of expert ex-pert operators. |