The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-02-01
WILL DO The WORK
THAT Is WHAT Is CLAIMED FOR
THE COTTON PICKER.
Full Description OF the Machine
Written for the Technical World
Magazine.

The following description OF the
new Complete Cotton Picking Ma
chine written :oT the Technical
World Magazine By Car! Crow vii!
are Interested in he picking OF cot
! ton:
In my opinion Mr Campbell has
| invented n.Ichin" That Viii mean
rs mGc, 10 the cotton pro o!ucer Is
the harvester has been to the gram
| producer. 1t Will mean chat one man
can go into the field and pick as
much cotton in one day as 30 or 80
men can pick By aand IN one day.
ard the total operating expenses OF
| the machine in one day. IN my op!n-
ion. based on my actual experiences.
WI! not exceed $40 7 day. and n"
cost OF picking the same amount OF
cotton by hand. figuring cn onc-hal!
! bale 10 the acre. would be not less
than SIS.
believe It would not take Sol
onion 10 see :hat this difference
would mean 4 ne; profit OF SIS on
one da:'S operation. 10 say nothing
Of the trouble that the producer IS
compelled TO 20 20 10 secure these
hand picke-s and 20 provide plac"
Cor them 20 1--we. and many other an
aoyanceS t.at are familiar TO the
nan with 4 lar:e cotton acreage.
Du-!n: the cotton picking season
OF 1910 the ce-Cara ohell Machine
was in almost continual operation in
Texas. moving from one farm 10 an
other. much a. the self-binders or
The thrcshiEc machines move in the
Northern states. During tie Texas
: STATE far. which is held in Dallas
during Zach October. the machine
gave daily demonstrations which
We're visited by thousands Of skepti-
cal farmers. many OF them suffering
from misery IN the back because
O.! many seasons Of cotton picking
! BY hand
! \ more ske2tical donb:ins jury
vas never before empane!cG than
this one. Yet their verdict was ua
aniclous IN favor OF the machine.
| Farmers from hundred cotton
planting nc::hborhoods visited the
machine every day and wcat BACK
home 10 tell rrei- neigh ho:s that n
, las; the impossible had been accom-
pl!shed with the invcntion OF 2 ma
chine which woald pick cotton.
The machine itself is 5uilt on 4
chassis Of about the dimensions OF q
s0-ho-sepower automobile. The
wheels are s;ee! traction and the
axles are high enough 20 pass over
re cotton stalks w:;hou; breaking
them. In the places where the dash
boar; OF an automobile would ae are
the !nterlockinC steel fingers which
pluck the cotton from the opened
bollS and = conveyor which carries
the locks 10 TWO bins or sacks s"s-
| pended from the rear Of the ma
chine. As fast as filed these sacks
are detached and replaced. IN front
sits the one operator with Z steering
wheel and throttle in easy access.
The engin" is mounted Just 10 the
rear OF the driver and IS connected
by means OF chain drive.
Many Obstacles are found 20 the
successful operation Of cotton pick
ing machine In the first place. cot
ton does not -ipen all n once. IS IS
the case with wheat and corn and
other crops. In July the bollS which
ere nearest the ground and therefore
the fartheSt advanced may b" ready
for the p!ckers On top OF the same
plant will BE MANY bowers and green
t>lls
II is important that The picker
take the locks from the ripencd bolis
without harmins the flowers. the
green bolls or the plant itself. Again
the cotton plant. though sown in
parallel rows. like corn. has great
lateral growth and -;?ened bolls
NAV be hidden by the more rapid
growth OF branches OF the plant
above. The machine must not only
pick all that is in sight. but Il must
do more: its steel fingers must creeH
beneath the branches and pick out
that which IS hidden.
This the Campbell machine
does. Jus; now its flexible steel I'm
gers acquire this almost human
touch do not understand. though
I have seen. believe thar il Angus
Campbell had invented the cotton
picker 200 years ago he would have
been hanged as disciple o: he devil
and his machine burned II 'front.' OF
the nearest cathedral.
AS understand it. .i:c Price
! Campbell cotton picker does Hot en-
body any s,rik!nsly novel features.
Indeed. every m"chanica! discovery
had been utilized BY former invent
o-s. Different ones sought 20 solve
the problem by using magnetism.
electricity and pncumatics. One Of
the latter class of inventors pre-
ce;icd the vacuum cleaner ay patent
( ing a machine designed on tae sam
principle.
The coa,raption provided Two seats
in the rear for BOYS who aimed the
poin; o: the business end o. the sue
ton pipes at the opened bo'ls. secrr-
irs their swift transportation 70 the
Wheeling interior OF the mach.ne.
The machine was success. but -
much depended n?on the agility ci
the .a;lS who han!ed the suction
ni3cS that i never proved any faster
than ~ ordinary nccrc .atcEe-
The Pr;ce-Campbe!! Eaachi"c seen
10 BE- success because o: The .act
that the inventor has worked care
fully oyc- evc-y detail OF the CON
S,-uct;0n for eleven rearS. O! cou-s",