Trivia: Who invented the COTTON GIN? If he could see his invention today... Picked up a load iof COTTONSEED in ALABAMA, going to WISCONSIN. VERY interesting! We backedup to a tube, coming out of the wall of a barn. PHOTOS tell the story of how they operate. It may take a few postings to put them on in some order.
The truck from the cotton field brings and drop the monster bail under a huge vaccumn.. The tractor and rails walk the bail off the truck onto the pavement.
An operator overhead, vaccumns the bail up into a COTTON GIN, where the FIBER is separated from the SEED, and the CHAFF. About one third of the bail is chaff, one third is seed, and one third is cotton fibre.
The fibre is washed and bundled. The seed is
blown into my truck, and the chaff is plown onto a waste pile. SEE NEXT POST!!
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