Sentence:  The meal being dry and spongy, the former does not press the cakes small enough to let them go in the press-boxes with ease, so there is a hardship on the <WSD>panman</WSD>; after the pressure is put on them they will hang and stick to the boxes and break and scatter on the floor and perhaps you will not get one whole cake out of a pressing; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One who loads cottonseed cakes into a press in order to extract cottonseed oil.