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Show """ I Many persons wonder why no shrewd inventor 1ms ever yet devised a machine Grontl "mt ro,tn- j Many an Inventive geniua hna worked LlianCC lOr at this problem, hut aa yet it ia unsolved. Tnvntlflvn T,"ro " no tri,'k Kc,,i"8 UP a rnntriv. iiivuuuvc ftnrc thRl wii (lo the work of pi(.kinK bllf Genius "mt ,",t lM'gin ,o "'vo ,l10 'linicuity. The trouhlo lies mainly in the fact that the cotton doea not all mature and open at the Br COL J. M. MABRT same time. A machine that may pick out tho locks of the opened bolls cleverly tZimZl enough will also take along tho green and unowned bolls and therefore destroy a big part of the crop. The human pickers will let the unripe cotton alone ami return to tho fields for it later, on maturity. Then again tho machine will take up a lot of trash, dead haves and pieces of stalk that will cause much trouble and labor to get rid of before the cotton can he carried to the gin. It is a great pity thut some better way of extracting tho fleocy stuff cannot be found, hut there is apparently nothing to do except continue the old plan of gathering the crop by hand. This ia a alow and alto an expensive procedure, aa in a good year almost every planter raises more than ho can gather with hia own labor and is thereby forced to hire out-aide out-aide help. Occasionally it is impossible to get this help and ns a result: much of the cotton ia left in the fields to he wasted for want of labor to pick it. |
