Mechanical Cotton Picker

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Tractors, beginning in the 1930s, and mechanical cotton pickers decades later, initially disrupted cotton production and the lives of those who worked in the fields. Today cotton farmers rely on the machinery.

Photograph from the Agricultural Research Service

Mechanical Cotton Picker

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