The Parker post., 1911-10-28
COTTON PICKING
MACHINE SUCCESS
Bio Hulk of Steel and Iron Able to
Pick Cotton Cleaner and Better
Than BY Hand-Does the Work of
Forty to Fifty Men in One Day.

chine has arrived and skepticism must
give away when confronted with the
demonstrated fact. Last Thursday
one of these machines arrived in the
Imperial valley, and was taken to
r. A. Hollis ranch adjoining town
and here this big hulk of steel and
iron, without the aid of any human
/ intelligence, driven by a gasoline en-
CINE, picked cotton and picked it
cleaner. and better than by hand, says
the Holtville Tribune.
1t can do as much in one day as
40 to SO men can pick with hand and
| what is more marvellous still is the
fact that it will pick only the open
bolls and will not harm the green
4 bolls or knock a blossom off the
i bush.
For fifty years inventive genius has
sought to invent machine that
would pick the cotton and no less
than 400 patents have been issued
for these machines and their sun
dries. But failure has followed fail
ure and the people that were inter
ested in cotton had almost reached
| the conclusion that it was an impOS-
sible task. But the problem ha;
been solved and by a man whC ne
raised a pound of cotton in his life
4This man, Angus Campbell, Scotch
Canadian, whose invention is sure to
4 revolutionize the cotton raising
dustry, made visit to his brother,
a rancher, in Waco, Texas, twenty
revolutionize the cotton raising in
ing season. Realizing the need of
a quicker and better method for
picking the cotton he set to work to
plan and construct mechanical pick
err For twenty-five years he was
preserved for this task only to pass
into the realm of the great beyond
had given the world the Price Camp
bell cotton picker, a demonstrated
success as a substitute of hand pick
Ing of the cotton.
The machine picked cotton is freer
from sticks and leafs than that
picked by hand and experts declare
that the cotton thus picked will av-
erage al least one grade higher than
that picked by hand.
The machine is in the form of a
tractor end the power that runs it
gine and the power transmitted to
both the front and back wheels Civ
ing the machin,. greater traction pow
er and also operates the mechanical
part of the picking.
The machine straddles the rows and
the cotton is removed by fingers or
mandrels These fingers have in
clined saw teeth within their diam
eter which taper toward the end.
By an ingenious arrangement of cogs
and eccentrics these fingers are
backwards as fast as the machine is
going forward and are suddenly with
drawn with the cotton wrapped
around them. Brushes remove the
cotton from the mandrels and it is
then conveyed on belts to a clean
ing device that removes all of the
sticks, brush and dirt, and thence
it is dumped into canvas bags at the
rear of the machine.
The features that distinguish this
make of a machine from all others,
picking fingers through the cotton
plant and their withdrawal in the
same manner after having moved
backwards with the plant at the same
rate of speed that the machine is
moving forward. This avoids the
whipping and dragging motion that
has been such vital weakness in
other makes of machines 1t is the
manipulation of these fingers that
enables the machine to pick the
open cotton without any injury to
the plant, immature bolls or blooms.
For several years past the demand
has exceeded the production and
Notwithstanding the high prices the
production does not increase in the
same proportion. Insect pests and
unfavorable weather are factors in
hindering the production but the
prime factor has been in not being
able to secure enough labor to har-
vest the crop.
The ginning capacity is unlimited
as there can be no limit set for the
number of gins that may be built.
The spinning and weaving capacity
is also unlimited as such machinery
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