. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. eseason average 60 to 80 in the pound, one macliinecould pick from 3,600 to 4,800 pounds per day often hours. One of these machines with four boysand a driver could do the work of twenty averagepickers. Some who have seen the Lowry Picker ask:And what shall it profit the cotton farmer to havethis machine, since even with it the human hand,or what is virtually an extension of the humanhand, must be directed to each individual boll?The advantage lies in the fact that the man whooperates the mechanical hand a
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. eseason average 60 to 80 in the pound, one macliinecould pick from 3,600 to 4,800 pounds per day often hours. One of these machines with four boysand a driver could do the work of twenty averagepickers. Some who have seen the Lowry Picker ask:And what shall it profit the cotton farmer to havethis machine, since even with it the human hand,or what is virtually an extension of the humanhand, must be directed to each individual boll?The advantage lies in the fact that the man whooperates the mechanical hand at least saves (orshould save) the time required in bending overeach new stalk and the time required in drawinghis hand back and forth in putting each separatehandful into his picking-sack—and this is morethan half the time required in picking. Others who think Mr. Lowry has invented apractical device for picking the cotton say that hehas hampered its success by putting it in connec-tion with a motive power which is not satisfactory:in other words, he is sacrificing a good invention.
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