. Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants). Agriculture. COTTON HARVESTING 365 Some of these machines operate on the suction principle; the open end of a hose pipe is directed by the human hand close to each open boll, when the suction created by a revolving fan on the machine draws the seed cotton through a tube and into a hopper. An example of this class of suction machines is the Worswick-Haardt picker, invented by J. B. Worswick, Mont- gomery, Alabama (Fig. 155). Other mechanical pickers entangle the seed cotton by means of innumerable sharp, tack-like points embedded in narrow re
. Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants). Agriculture. COTTON HARVESTING 365 Some of these machines operate on the suction principle; the open end of a hose pipe is directed by the human hand close to each open boll, when the suction created by a revolving fan on the machine draws the seed cotton through a tube and into a hopper. An example of this class of suction machines is the Worswick-Haardt picker, invented by J. B. Worswick, Mont- gomery, Alabama (Fig. 155). Other mechanical pickers entangle the seed cotton by means of innumerable sharp, tack-like points embedded in narrow re-. IY\ Fig. 156. — The Dixie Cotton Picker. volving belts, which are directed by human hands into contact with the open boll; the lint is instantly entangled and borne along the revolving belt to the hopper, where it is removed by brushes. An example of such a machine is the Lowry Cotton Picker, invented by George A. Lowry, Boston, Massachusetts. Among other mechanical cotton-pickers recently advertised are the following: — The Dixie Cotton Picker, invented by John F. Appleby, Chicago, Illinois (Figs. 156 and 157).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Duggar, J. F. (John Frederick), 1868-. New York, The Macmillan company
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