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Workers are thining the cotton with their hoes.

The cotton bowls are opening, and the cotton will be ready to pick soon.

Men are picking the cotton after the plants were defoliated.

The pickers have the cotton bags hanging over their backs.

The pickers brought their bags of cotton to the weighing station. Each pickers bag is weighed and recorded. After the weigh-in the bag is emptied into the cotton trailer. When the cotton trailer is full, it is driven to the cotton gin for…

The young boy has his own smaller cotton bag.

The cotton bag is being weighed in, and the adding machine will be used to print a record for the picker.

The weigh-in station is busy: one man's bag is being weighed in, another man is waiting in line with a full bag of cotton, while two men walk away with their cotton bag rolled up under their arms. The calculator is operating his machine.

The boy has picked his bag of cotton.

International Harvester came out with the one-row mechanical cotton picker in 1949 after World War II. The mechanical cotton picker had been in development since 1933. Tom Honeycutt wrote a book entitled "The Second Emancipation: Inventor John Rust…