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...cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first effects of the development of an efficient cotton picker might be the displacement of over half a million tenant families...
...speaking thus last week at Tuskegee, Ala., Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace echoed the question which has sorely troubled the cotton-growing South ever since the equivocal demonstration of the Rust mechanical cotton picker fortnight ago: If the Rust machine is eventually a success, what will human cotton pickers do for work? Hardly were the words out of the Secretary's mouth when the antipodal question vexed cotton planters in the Mississippi Valley and all over the Southeast: What was this year's cotton crop going to do for human pickers? Though wages were the highest since...
...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...
...welter of enthusiasm and disparagement that resulted from last week's show, a few facts stood out clearly. Under favorable conditions, the Rust picker does pick cotton fast and cheaply. It costs $1 per hour to run. In one hour last week it picked 400 Ib.-as much as one average hand-picker could gather in four days. It does not injure the plants. But it does need a high-yield stand to do its best; the yield on the Stoneville farm was estimated close to a bale to the acre, whereas the national average is about one-third...
...thing of which there was no doubt last week was that the cotton-growing South is excited about the Rust cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists...