Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — Machine Needed. [ARTICLE]

Machine Needed.

Cotton might become much cheaper if some ingenious Inventor would devise a mechanical means for picking it—the work of picking being the costly item, in time and labor. There are cotton-picking machines on the . market, but none of them is very satisfactory. One of them operates on the principle of a vacuum cleaner, sucklngdhe bolls off the plants through rubber tubes. Another utilises steej bristles for entangling the bolls. When a really practical contrivance for the purpose is obtainable, an average farm family in the South will be able to produce forty bales at cotton in a season. Instead of seven bales.— New York Thuds.