Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventor Mack Rust: "We don't claim that this is the best possible cotton picker. But this machine today is a better cotton picker than the old Model T Ford was an automobile when it was first offered...
...Barcroft, Mississippi grower: "I don't want one-it wastes too much cotton and gets too much trash...
...Hutchins, Mississippi grower: "It is a greater success than I had expected. Now we won't have to beg for labor to help pick cotton...
Oscar Johnston is the bulky, crinkle-eyed manager of the British-owned Delta & Pine Land Co.. whose 10,000-acre cotton plantation is the largest in the world. This year Mr. Johnston is getting 575 Ib. to the acre of "strict middling" cotton which he sells at a premium over the market price. He gets along well with his 3,000 Negroes, wants to keep them. Newshawks therefore crowded around him last week to hear what he thought of the mechanical menace. Grower Johnston was skeptical but not scornful...
...machine seems to be basically practical," said he, "but it needs improvements. To be successful, I believe it would require close co-operation among the machine's sponsors, the cotton growers and ginners. IF it is successful, it will be the death knell for family-size farms and for tenants...