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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done by hand labor with a hoe, this thinning is called "chopping." From April to June every year the South's cotton fields are full of an army of choppers, each doing about an acre a day. In 1920 a San Antonio jack-of-all-trades named Ellis Albaugh visited his brother-in-law at Seguin, Tex. The brother-in-law had a broken leg, and not enough choppers were available to work his cotton fields. So Ellis Albaugh built a crude machine which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber-Tired Hoe | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Ellis Albaugh shares not in this profit. He sold out for $600 cash. The promoters who bought it sold stock in the Dixie Cotton Chopper Co., then absconded with the money. One of the salesmen of this first company was a Kentuckian named Lawrence W. Leeper whose wife had an independent fortune. In 1927 Lawrence Leeper bought the rights to the chopper, patented it in 1932. Engineer Dent Parrett improved the machine and wealthy oldtime Rancher John Scharbauer and friends put up $200.000 to establish Dixie Cultivator Corp. in 1936. Lawrence Leeper retained a controlling interest and has given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber-Tired Hoe | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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