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 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
 Bureau of Agricultural Economics 
 
 U -S- DEPOSITORY 
 Economic Library List No, 9 
 
 Washington, D. C, March 1940 
 
 COTTON PICKING MA.CH INERT 
 A Short List of References 
 
 Compiled "by Emily L. Day, Library Specialist in Cotton Marketing 
 
 This list supersedes three typewritten lists 
 dated June 17, 1936, April 9, 1937, and March 11, ! 
 1940. It was compiled mainly from Agricultural. 
 Economics Literature, v. 1, 1927 to v. 13, 1939, 
 end Cotton Literature, v. 1, 1931 to v. 9, 1939. 
 
 Adams, C. F. The hierarchy of cotton. Commonweal 22(21): 489-490. Sept. 20, 
 
 "A discussion of the possible effects of the mechanical cotton picker 
 on the cropper and the hired man." - Agr. .Econ. Bibliog. no. 64, item 766« 
 
 Andrews, Stanley. Iron fingers cone to Dixie. Ark. Farmer 39(2l): 6-7. 
 Sept. 1937. 6 Ar42 
 
 Brief account -of the attempts during the past one hundred years to 
 perfect a machine which will pick cotton. 
 
 Another mechanical cotton picker. Amer. Ginnor and Cotton Oil Miller 14(7): 
 14. Mar. 1937. 72.3~Am35 
 
 Describes a machine invested by A. R. Nisbet. 
 
 Another mechanical cotton picker reported in Texas. Cotton Trade Jour. 18(34): 
 6. Aug. 6, 1938. 72.8 C8214 
 
 Also in Cotton Digest 10(44): 12. Aug. 6, 1938. 
 
 The picker of a type known as the wind- roll was invented by A. R. 
 
 rt>et, -and is being tried in Texas. 
 
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 Arthurdale co-op signs contract to manufacture ..cotton pickers. Rust "brothers 
 decide to join manufacture of their cotton-picking machines to co-op trac- 
 tors; signing of contract result of three months of negotiations. Farmers 
 Union Ho raid (n.s.) 13(8): 1. Aug. 1939. 280.28 F224 
 
 ■The pickers are to "be manufactured at Arthurdale, West Virginia "by the 
 Arthurdale Farm Equipment Corporation. 
 
 Barnwell, Mildred G. Picker progress. Checking up on 1937 status of one cf 
 
 the big stories of 1936. Textile World 87(7): 81. June 1937. 304.8 T315 
 The present status of cotton picking machinery is noted. 
 
 Barnwell, Mildred G-. Rust cotton picker means gradual motorization, but not 
 violent economic' upheaval.. Textile World 86(10): 1806-1808, 1873, illus. 
 Sept. 1936, 304.8 T315 
 
 Bealle, James S. Dixie needs no cotton picker. Forum and Cent. 97(4): 224- 
 229. Apr. 1937. 
 
 "The Southern farmer has no great need for a cotton picking machine. 
 He can arrange for his cotton to "be. picked for loss money under the 
 present system." 
 
 cBennett, Charles A.: .Ginger discusses. the mechanical picker problem. 
 
 Machine can't yet "remove trash of conjecture from lint cf fact." Cotton 
 Trade Jour. 18(37): 7. Aug. 27, 1938.. 72.8C8214* 
 
 Extracts from address at Greenville, Miss., Aug. 23, 1938. 
 
 Also in Cotton Digest 11(4): 12-13. Oct. 29, 1938. 
 
 Bennett, Charles A. The relation of mechanical harvesting to .the production 
 of high grade cotton. 5pp., processed. [ Washington, U. S. Dept. of 
 Agriculture, 'Bureau of Agricultural Engineering] 1938. 1.9 En36R 
 
 Address before the 32nd annual meeting of the American Society of 
 Agricultural Engineers, June 29, 1938, at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, Calif* 
 
 Better picking methods add money to value of lint sold. Experiments, show how 
 "right" methods of picking bring premium at Stoneville Station under gov- 
 ernment supervision. Miss. Co-op News 9(2): 2. Aug. 1937. 72.8 M6? 
 
 Bryan, Jack. The Rust foundation. South. Workman 67(12): 361-366. Dec, 
 1938. 275.8 So82 
 
 Quotations are "taken from the Memphis (Term.) Press-Scimitar of 
 August 24, 1938... and from bulletins of the Company, and printed here 
 for the record." 
 
 The purpose of the Foundation is to use proceeds from sale of the 
 picker to uplift Southern workers* . 
 
 Burgess, A. F. , and Rogers, Frank E. , jr. Modern cotton picking. Agrarian 
 cClemson Agr. Col. ] l(l): 21, 37-38. Dec. 1938. 276,8 Ag8 
 Mechanical harvesting of cotton is described. 
 
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 Butler, Eugene. Cotton picker - saint or devil? Progressive Farmer (Tex. ed.) 
 51(9): 3, 47. Sept." 1936. 6 T311 
 
 Discusses the many changes which the Rust cotton picker and other labor 
 saving machinery may make in the agriculture of the South. 
 
 "After considering the advantages and disadvantages and striking a 
 "balance, it seems to the writer that even though the coming of mechanical 
 choppers. and pickers may displace Labor temporarily and threaten us with 
 over production, it is likely to "benefit Southern agriculture in the 
 long run." 
 
 Carlson, Oliver. The revolution in cotton. Amer. Mercury 34(134): 129-136. 
 Eeb. 1935. Libr. Cong. 
 
 Description of Rust Brothers mechanical cotton picker, and a discussion 
 of the social and economic implications involved in large, scale' production 
 and use of this invention. 
 
 Extracts in Reader's Digest 26(155): 13-16. Mar. 1935. 
 
 Abstract in Einanc. News 3(16): 17.. Apr. 27, 1935. 
 
 Carlson, Oliver. The South faces disaster. Amer. Mercury 37(145):- 1-3. 
 Jan. 1936. Libr. Cong. 
 
 "An almost immediate revolution in cotton production is at hand: the 
 mechanical picker, when introduced in Australia, as well as here, will 
 destroy the Anerican small producer, wipe out the Southern tenant farmer, 
 mechanize the entire industry, cut production costs from fifty to eighty 
 per cent, yield enormous profits to its first users, and throw millions 
 of the South* s most helpless population out of the only employment which 
 they understand." 
 
 The author describes the increase in cotton production in foreign 
 countries, especially Australia. 
 
 Cavanagh, J. R. Will. steel fingers and drops of water free the South from 
 picking drudgery? Amer. G-inner and Cotton Oil Miller 12(ll): c4i, 8, 
 illus. July 1935. 72.8 Am35 
 
 The Rust Brothers cotton picker is described and its advantages are 
 discussed. 
 
 Chew, A. P. Cheaper cotton-picking. Earn Jour. 51(8): 12. Aug. 1927. 
 6 E2212 
 
 Clark, Allen ?. Ingenious drive distinguishes mechanical harvester. Machine 
 Design 4(8): 11-14, illus. Aug. 1932. 
 
 Describes the Gyracotn harvester designed by Geo. R, Mycrcord and 
 Associates, Chicago. 
 
 "Mechanical cotton pickers, to be successful, must gather a good 
 majority of the ripe cotton and substantially nothing else, and in ac- 
 complishing this, must not injure either the cotton or the various parts 
 of the plant; they must operate efficiently in cotton with green leaves 
 and in that with dead leaves and stems; they must be capable of operating 
 
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 efficiently in nest types raid sizes of plants, "but need not "be capable 
 of handling abnormally large or snail plants inasnu.cn as these are rela- 
 tively for; in number; and they nust be so constructed that no oil can 
 get on the cotton," 
 
 Co-op nenber has invented cotton picker. Mid- So. Cotton News 14(6): 6, illus. 
 Jan. 1937. 72.8 C8295 
 
 The picker invented hy L. C. Stukenborg is described. 
 
 Cooperatives will make Rust cotton pickers. Hoosier Farrier 24(8): 10. Aug. 
 1939. 280.82 1176 
 
 "The Arthur dale Farn Equipment Corporation of Arthurdale, T7est Virginia, 
 managed "by the American Co-operatives, Inc., a group of farner cooperatives 
 operating throughout the Middle West and Canada, which is nor; doing ah out 
 . $18,000,000 worth of "business annually, is going to produce the famous 
 cotton picker, invented "by the Rust Brothers of Memphis, .Tennessee." 
 
 Cordell, W. H. 'Dark days , ahead for King Cotton. North Amer. Rev. 240(2): 
 284-292. Sept. 1935. ' 
 
 "The effect on sharecroppers and tenants of the acreage reduction 
 program and the results of the adoption and use of the Rust Brothers* 
 mechanical cotton-picker are described." 
 
 Cordell, William, and Cordell, Katliryn. The cotton picker - friend or 
 Frankenstein? Common Sense 5(G): 18-21. June 1936. Libr. Cong. 
 
 This article, authorized "by the Rust brothers, is on the mechanical 
 cotton picker, its significance, and the efforts of the inventors to 
 "discover some means of lessening the fearful impact of this machine 
 upon the tenants." The article includes a description of the machine 
 (including a sketch of it) and statements as to its low cost of operation 
 and the amount of cotton which the machine can pick in seven ond one-half 
 hours as. contrasted with the amount picked. by human labor, , 
 
 Cotton picker. Cotton Digest 5(ll): 9-10. Dec. 24, 1932. 286.82 C822 
 
 Describes the mechanical cotton picker invented by the Rust Brothers. 
 
 Cotton picker. Another new machine. Cotton Digest r Houston] 10(l7): 9. 
 Jan. 29, 1938. .286.82 C822 
 
 "The development of a mechanical cotton picker.. .was announced by 
 A. H. Kannauer, president of the Cotton Harvester Corporation of America." 
 
 Cotton picker does job of seventy- five men. Pod. Mechanics 70 (4): 513. 
 Oct. 1938. 291.8 P81 
 
 Also in Agr. -Indus. Monthly 6(3): 21, Dec. 1938. 
 
 Cotton picker does work of 60 nen. Pon. Sci« Monthly 12l(l): 56, illus. 
 July 1932. 470 P81 
 
 Describes a machine exhibited in Chicago, which was equipped with 
 headlights and could be used at night. 
 
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 Cotton picker. Ma.chino-vs.-nan Jitters exaggerated in the South, Newsweek 
 12(7): 32. Jfcug. 15, 1938. 230.8 Ne 
 
 The outlook for use of the Rust cotton picker is noted. 
 
 Cotton picker portents. Business Week, no. 365, p. 15. Sept. 5, 1936. 
 230.8 Sy8 
 
 Describes the demonstration of the cotton picker in Mississippi, as 
 well as the machine itself. It is held that the "Significance of the 
 invention ranges from the world-empire of cotton to our domestic social 
 set-up." According to this article the Rust "brothers do not intend to 
 sell any of their pickers, except to Russia, which has already taken two 
 machines. Markets for the machine are already opening up. "Four machines 
 will "be used this fall at Clover Kills, a motorized Mississippi plantation* 1 ' 
 The rates at which the pickers will "be leased are given. 
 
 Cotton picker tried here. High growth causes difficulties but Rust principle 
 proves correct. Ariz. Prod. 14(18): 3. Dec. 1, 1935. 6 Ar44 
 
 Invention of John D. Rust will no doubt be practicable for low-growing 
 cotton of. the South. 
 
 Dickinson, Roy. ; Men and machines. The Rust brothers of Memphis propose an 
 advertising question that demands an answer. Printers 1 Ink 174(12): 17, 
 20-21. Mar. 19, 1936. 238.2 P932 
 
 "Undoubtedly in our present problem the answer to unemployment- is not 
 to sma.sh the machine itself, to refuse to make any new inventions, but 
 to have men interested in purchasing power do some intelligent and far- 
 reaching resea.rch. . .Certainly men crea,te machines to serve and not to 
 enslave them. With "better thinking on the part of the owners, machines 
 can be made to perform the true function for which they are so eminently 
 fitted." 
 
 Dilemma of a modern man of conscience. Christian Cent. 53: 485. Apr. 1, 
 1936. Lihr. Cong. 
 Not seen, 
 
 Farm: Drought and machinery present two great problems. U« S. News 4(35): 5, 
 Aug. .31, 1936. 
 
 Includes a. discussion of the cotton picker invented "by John and Mack 
 Rust, 
 
 Federal council of churches of. Christ in America. Dept. of research and educa- 
 tion. The cotton picker. Fed. Counc. Churches of Christ in Amor. Dept. 
 Res. and Ed. Inform. Serv. 15(24): :l-2 3 June 13, 1936. 
 
 This article on the Rust cotton picker and its significance is "based 
 on an article "by William and Kathryn Cordell - The Cotton Picker - Friend 
 or Frankenstein? - in Common Sense for June 1936. 
 
 Forsyth, W. H. Cotton stripper reduces cost in Texas. South. Cult. 91 (3): 
 9, illus. Mar. 1, 1933. 
 
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 This article considers the stripper or picker as a threat to cotton 
 production in Georgia, as it is not adapted to conditions there, hut 
 increases competition from the southwest. 
 
 Future of American cotton in question. In two years U. S. production drops 
 from 60 to 40 per cent of total world crop. Share-croppers raise issue. 
 Threat of pickers adds to difficulties already confronting millions of 
 farm tenants. Amer. Observer 5(8): 1, 8. Oct. 21, 1935. 
 
 Gantz, H. L, Methods of harvesting cotton are brought to trial. Tex. Coop. 
 News 13(1 ): 7, illus. Jan. 1, 1933. 72.9 T315F 
 
 Results of a cotton harvesting experiment on a farm near Shallowater, 
 Lubbock County, Tex. , in which the use of a cotton picking machine and the 
 method, of snapping and picking were contrasted. 
 
 Gyrator cotton picker. Melliand Textile Monthly 2(ll): 1488-1489.. Fob, 1931. 
 11 It is claimed for the .machine that one acre of cotton may be picked 
 in. one hour, regardless of the poundage of cotton to the acre." 
 
 Hand vs. machine. An old story being repeated in cotton picking in the Delta. 
 Textile World 87(11): .2229, illus. Oct. 1937. 304.8 TSL5 
 
 Compares the pickers manufactured by Rust Brothers and by the Inter- 
 national Harvester Co. 
 
 Harvester engineer works thirty years on cotton picker. East. Dealer. in 
 Impl. & Vehicles 3l(2): 26, 28, illus. Mar". 11, 1937. 58.8 Ea7- • . 
 
 Also in Farm Ma.ch. and Equipment, no. 1839, pp. 7-8, 42. Mar. 15, 1937. 
 Harvester cotton picker invented by T. A. Johnston. is described. 
 
 Hon, Ralph C. The Rust cotton picker. South. Econ. Jour. 3(4): 381-392. 
 Apr. 1937. 280.8 So84 
 
 Describes the operation of the cotton picker invented by John and 
 Mack Rust, 
 
 Home, Roman.!., and McKibben, Eugene G. Changes, in farm power and equipment. 
 Mechanical cotton picker. U. S. Works Prog. Admin. Natl. Res. Proj, 
 Rpt. no. A-2, 24pp. Philadelphia, 1937. 173.2 W89St no. A-2 
 Selected references, pp. 23-24. 
 Reviewed in Sci. Hews Letter 33(10): 153. Mar. 5, 1938. 
 
 Hc-rne, Roman L, Cotton pickers. In U. S. National, resources committee. Sab- 
 committee on technology. Technological trends.nxid national policy, pp. 139- 
 144. Washington, U. S. Govt, print, off., 1937. 173.2 N214T 
 Reprinted in Rural Amer. 16(l)': 9-12. Jan. 1938. 
 
 Hurst, W. M. Some types of harvesting machinery reach high state of develop- 
 ment. U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook of Agriculture, 1932: 445-446. 
 
 "The problems involved in the development of a successf.il mechanical 
 cotton harvester are doubtless the most difficult of any which have con- 
 
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 fronted inventors and' designers of agri cultural implements. ..due 
 largely to the physical characteristics of the cotton plant and to the 
 wide variations in soil, weather, and crop conditions under which cotton 
 is grown, There are at present two typos of cotton harvesters in the 
 experimental stage." . • . 
 
 I. H. C. Cotton picker. Still experimental after 30 years of trying, out 
 success is in sight. Ariz. Producer 15(25): 7, 33. Mar. 15, 1937. 
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 Describes the International Harvester Company cotton picker invented 
 "by E, A, Johnson, 
 
 In the driftway. Nation 136(3543): 613-614. "May 31, 1933.' • 
 
 Mention is made of a mechanical cotton picker which "when tried out 
 in Louisiana last autumn seemed to many observers, including some tech- 
 nicians, to solve the problem* The new device makes use of a 'wet 
 spindle 1 .., It is said that the new machine will red-ace the cost, of pick- 
 ing cotton, now $10' to $20 a "bale, to $1.70 or $0.35, doing the work of 
 40 to 100 human -nickers according to the heaviness of the crop.. .Inevit- 
 ably it would end what is left - and there is a good deal - of the old 
 plantation system historically associated with the South." 
 
 International harvester cotton -nicker. Mfrs. Rec. 106(3): 52, illus." Mar, 
 1S37. 207.8 M31 ' . ' ' ' , '..•■■.-- 
 
 • The International Harvester Company of America, Inc. -thinks "the 
 time is still remote when cotton nickers will "be placed generally on 
 the market," 
 
 Is the mechanical cotton picker a threat? Bedding Mfr. 32(3): 38, 40. Oct. 
 1936. 309.3 B39 
 
 Recent tests of the Rust cotton picker are commented upon, "If this 
 thing is intelligently handled it can prove the greatest boon to the 
 South since the cotton gin." 
 
 Johnston, E, A. The evolution of the mechanical cotton harvester. Agr, 
 Engin. 19(9): 383-335, 383. Tent. 1933. 58.8 AgS3 
 
 Also in Farm Impl, News 59(10): 34-36. July 28, 1938. 
 
 "An address as the 1933 recipient of the Cyrus Kail McOormick Gold 
 Medal awarded "by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and 
 delivered before the annual meeting of the Society, at Asilomar, Pacific 
 •Grove, Calif., June 29, 1933." 
 
 The article is concluded as follows: 
 • "To sum up, we know we are now on the right track at last, but we also 
 feel that there is absolutely no likelihood of mechanical cotton harvesters 
 being produced and sold in quantities sufficient to revolutionize agri- 
 culture in the cot ton- growing areas in the near future. 
 
 "While it is reasonable to assume that .the demand for mechanical cotton 
 harvesters will be stimulated by the increasing scarcity of hand pickers, 
 the high and increasing cost of hand picking, and the necessity of reducing 
 
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 thb' cost of production, I cannot emphasize too strongly my "belief that 
 this demand will continue a long time "before mechanical harvesters are 
 used in sufficient numbers to affect seriously the labor situation in 
 co tton T growing areas." 
 
 Jones, D. L., Hurst, W, M*, and Scontes, D. Mechanical harvesting of cotton 
 in northwest Texas. Tex. Agr. Expt. -Sta. Circ. 52, 31pp. College 
 'Station-, 1928. 
 
 On -pv, 27-31 is found a description, with illustrations, of the prin- 
 ciple of the mechanical picker, with the 'forecast that a successful 
 machine will he developed in the near future. 
 
 Jones, R, F. Reducing cotton production costs by the utilization of improved 
 machinery. Agr. Eng. 10(6): 183-183. June 1929. 
 
 Among the' kinds of machinery discussed, is the mechanical picker, which 
 is "being worked on, hut as yet not successfully developed. 
 
 Kile, 0. M, .The new agriculture. 218pp. IT ew York, Macmillan co. , 1932. 
 281.12 K55 
 
 A revolution in cotton production, pp. 120-123. 
 
 "When the practical power picker arrives, and it is evidently near at 
 hand, we shall see a most extraordinary revolution in the Cotton Belt." 
 
 Leach, H. G. Humanizing machines-I. The Rust cotton picker. Foram 96(2): 49- 
 50* Aug. 1936. 110 F77 
 
 The author suggests "that co-operating societies he formed of groups 
 of cotton croppers and that these societies rent the Rust pickers cand 
 offer tne services of the machines to the cotton planters. With one 
 sharecropper representing seventy-five "by running the machine, the other 
 s event y- four workers ' thrown out of work* would have the time and divi- 
 dends to provide schools for their children, hospitals, and sanitation 
 and to offer their own hand labor in diversified agriculture and other 
 auxiliary services. Under competent leadership a co-operative community 
 of sharecroppers would gradually jack itself up in its standard of cleanli- 
 ness and living." 
 
 Lewis, E. E. Black cotton farmers and the A.A.A. Opportunity 13(3): 72-74. 
 War. 1935. 
 
 The writer comments adversely on the prospects of the llegro agricultural 
 workers under the A.A.A, and also discusses the probable effect of the 
 mechanical cotton picker on the llegro and white workers in the Southern 
 cotton fields, 
 
 McAllister, Sydney G. Concerning mechanical cotton pickers. Farm Impl. 
 News. 58 (21): 46. Oct. 21, 1937. .53.8 F22 
 
 Also in East. Dealer- in Impl. and Vehicles 3l(l7):_16. Oct. 21, 1937; 
 Impl. and Tractor 52(22): 20. Oct. 30, 1937; Farm Machinery .and Equipment 
 1847: 9, 38. N V, 15, 1937; Farm Ideas l(6): 14. Nov, 1937. 
 
 A radio broadcast October 8, 1937. 
 
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 "Whether a mechanical cotton picker is" introduced into wide spread use 
 in the South during the next generation is dependent primarily upon tile 
 economic direction taken by the cotton production industry as a result 
 of changing world factors." 
 
 [McCrory, S. H.] Mechanical cotton pickers reported to /be improving. At 
 "best, machines turn out lint one or two grades lower than hand-picked. 
 .Cotton Trade Jour. 19(6): 1, 8.. Fee. 11, 1939. 72.8 C8214 
 
 Machine cotton picking still far off. Prog. Farmer (Ky.-Tenn. ed.) 5l(ll): 3, 
 . 57. Nov.' 1935. 6 T311 
 
 The writer "believes that a mechanical cotton harvester would "long 
 since have been in use but for the difficult mechanical" engineering and 
 economic problems involved. The mechanical difficulties, which have not 
 yet been solved, are due to the form of the cotton plant and its habit 
 of maturing its fruit. The defects of the present much-publicized machine 
 are just those which have for the last half-century defied solution by 
 other engineers." _ . .''..'. 
 
 The machine invades the cotton field. U. S. News 4(36): 11. Sept. 7, 1936. 
 
 280.8 Un33A 
 
 Describes the cotton picker invented by the Rust Brothers, and its 
 
 first public demonstration near Stoneville, Miss. Comment of Oscar 
 
 Johnston on the operation of the machine is given. 
 . . . John Ti*. Taylor comments on -the .possibilities of the picker on p. 10, 
 
 his remarks appearing under the cant ion: " South' s new problem. Cotton 
 
 picking machine: threat cr promise?" 
 
 Machine picker saves 2 cents a pound, claim. Cotton Trade Jour. 17(31): 1. 
 July 31, 1937. 72.8 C8214^ 
 
 Brief statement on cost of picking -cotton by hand and with the Rust 
 cotton picker in a test near Clarksdrle, Miss. 
 
 Machine picking - and then? Its effect on labor, en cotton Qrovrin^ industry 
 and farming in general. Ariz. Prod. 16(16): 6. Nov. 1, 1937. 6 Ar44 
 
 Machines that pick cotton. Tex. Farming and Citricult. 14(2): 8, illus. 
 Aug. 1937. 80 T31 
 
 The illustration shews a 1935 model HcCornick-Becring Parmall cotton 
 , picker. 
 
 McHugh, P. D. Machines pick cotton, but -. Sci. Amer. 159(5): 242-245. 
 Nov, 1938. 470 Sci25 
 
 Several typos of mechanical, pickers are described and illustrated. 
 Effects of mechanical picking on quality are noted. 
 
 Marshall, P. L. Pacts about the mechanical cotton picker. Can a mechanical 
 
 cotton picker be used in Georgia, ~r will itbe confined to the Mississippi 
 Delta? Ga. Agr. cUaiv. of Ga.3 15(4): 5, 24. Jon. 1938. 276^8 G29 
 
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 Also in Internatl. Cotton Bui. 9(35): 360-361, illus. Apr. 1931. 
 Description, of the Nanauer- Gamble-Berry cotton picking machine. 
 
 Mechanical cotton picker demonstrated at carnival. Mid-South Cotton Assn. 
 News 11(10): 2, illus. May 1934. 
 
 A picker to he exhibited at the Memphis cotton carnival May 16-19, 
 1934, is described. 
 
 Mechanical cotton picker simple in operation. Mid- South Cotton News 14(7): 6, 
 illus. Feb. 1937. 72.8 C8295 
 
 Describes the cotton picker invented by L. C. Stuckenborg. 
 
 Mechanical cotton picking. Cotton and Cotton Oil Press 38(40): 10. Oct. 2, 
 1937. 304.8 C822 
 
 Report of "a demonstration of International Harvester's new cotton 
 
 picker in the Delta." .. . ... 
 
 Mechanical cotton picking in two years! Arizona trials leave no doubt I.H.C. 
 machine to be complete success soon. Ariz. Prod. 16(17): 7. Nov. 15, 
 1937. 6 Ar44 
 
 Describes the International Harvester Company's machine. 
 
 Mechanical dickers discussed by chief . Cotton Digest cHouston: 10(48): 10-11. 
 Sept. 3, 1938. 286.82 C822 
 
 Statements of Charles A. Bennett are quoted. 
 
 Mechanization of cotton harvesting. Econ. Rev. Soviet Union 7(15-15): 332, 
 illus. Aug. 15, 1932. 
 
 "The need for a cot ton-harve sting machine which could f distinguish 1 
 the ripe from the unripe pods was met ''oj the construction of new types 
 of harvesters." 
 
 The Meyercord cotton picker. Farm Impl. News 53(17): 12-14, illus. Apr. 
 28, 1932. 58.8 F22 
 
 Mullen, C. W. Steel spindles take place of numb fingers. Kans. Agr. Student 
 13(4): 106, 123-124. May 1939. 276.3 K13 
 
 Discusses the difficulties and ho.rd labor of picking cotton and the 
 advantages of a mechanical cotton picker. 
 
 Munro, VT. C. King cotton's stepchildren. Current Hist. 44(3): 66-70. June 
 1936. 110 C93 
 
 An .article en the Southern sho.recre-n'ocrs - the organization of the 
 
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 Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, the cooperative farm started for the 
 "benefit of a for/ evicted 'families of sharecroppers in Tennessee by' 
 Scon Franklin and Sherv/ood Eddy, the Rust cotton picker, and the Rust 
 Foundation organized for "the .pur-pose of utilizing nine tenths of the 
 inventors' profits for the foundation of cooperative farms and educational 
 projects for the white and Negro." John Rust has offered marketing 
 control of the machine to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. 
 
 Must pick Pima cleaner. Ariz., prod. 12(15): 1. Oct. 15, 1933. 6 Ar44 
 
 New cotton picker. Internatl. Cotton Bui. 13(49): 97. Oct. 1934. 72.8 In8 
 
 J. and M. Rust, "brothers of Memphis, Tenn.j have patented a new machine 
 for harvesting cotton. 
 
 Anew cotton picker. Internatl. Cotton Bui. 15(57): 50-51. Oct. 1936. 
 72.8 In8 
 
 "As nearly as can he determined, the first attempt to develop a mechani- 
 cal cotton picker was made in Memphis in 1850. Since that time some 820 
 patents have "been taken out at the United States Patent Office for all 
 kinds of cotton pickers... A short time ago the press gave extensive pub- 
 licity to what was termed a 'new mechanical cotton picker', i. e., the 
 Hew Rust Cotton Picker, "but the reader is referred to page 97 of the 
 October, 1934, issue of the International Cotton Bulletin, where a note 
 on this same cotton picker will be found." The recent test of the Rust 
 "brothers' picker is briefly described. 
 
 New cotton picker in the U. S..S. R. Internatl. Cotton Bui. 11(43): 399. 
 Apr, 1933. 72.8 In8 
 
 "This picker has a much higher production capacity than the American 
 tr/o-row cotton picker, and makes a full use of the tractor power possible. 
 It gives an additional operation, that of sorting cotton according to 
 grades." This new six- row picker was designed at the Ukrainian Scientific 
 Research Institute for Mechanization of Agriculture, U. S. S. R. 
 
 New cotton picker now on market. Mid- So, Cotton News 16(11): 2. May 1939. 
 72.8 C8295 
 
 Also in Ariz. Farmer 18(7): 20. June 10, 1939. 
 Describes the operation of the St. Louis Cottonpicker. 
 
 New mechanical cotton picker does double duty. Pop. Sci. Monthly 133(6): 91, 
 Dec. 1938. 470 P81 
 
 "Each row of cotton is picked oyer twice in one operation as a new 
 and improved model of a. mechanized cotton-picking machine perfected by 
 the Rust brothers of Memphis, Term., runs back and forth across the 
 cotton field." 
 
 New-model cotton pickers. Rust and International Harvester machines are 
 working on. this year'.s crop. Low. cotton price, high labor cost, and 
 
 shortage of hands make a market. Business Week, no. 422, p. 26, Oct. 2, 
 1937. 280. 8 Sy8 
 
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 New picker Ignores green "bolls. Cotton and' Cotton Oil Press 38(33): 18. 
 Aug. 14, 1937. 304.8 0822 
 
 Alec in Textila Bui. 52(25): 30. Aug. 19, 1937. 
 
 Describes a next cotton picker v/ith an electric eye, invented by Charles 
 White ef Mol'ine, 111. 
 
 New types of cotton hold key to efficient mechanical picking* Daily Hews 
 Rec. C N. Y.] no. 152, pp. 1, 6. June 30, 1938. 286.8 1T48 
 
 Also in. Prog. Farmer (Tex. ed.) 53(3): 12... Aug. 1938; Impl. & Tractor 
 53(14): 12-13, 34. July 9, 1938. 
 
 Gives extracts from addresses cf Charles A. Bennett and E. A. Johnston 
 at the 32nd annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural En- 
 gineers at . Asilornar, Pacific Grove, Calif., June 29, 1938. 
 
 Pickett, John E. Cutting farm costs with machines. Pacific Rural Press 
 122(24): 550. Dec. 12, 1931. 6 P112 
 
 Among other machines a mechanical cotton picker is described which is 
 known as the Gyracotn. 
 
 Picking an acre of cotton an hour. Impl.. and Machinery Rev. cLondon: 63(746): 
 186, illus. June 1, 1937. 53.8' Im72 
 
 Describes the work of a cotton picking machine in the United States. 
 
 Picking cotton. A mechanical device. Queenslander 66(222): 13. July 16, 
 1931. 
 
 Describes the invention of Mr. J. Ecrrier of Brisbane, Australia. 
 
 Program for picker. Time 27(12):- 60. Mar. 23, 1936. 
 
 The plan of the Rust Brothers to lease their cotton harvesting machine 
 in order not to throw men out of work is noted. 
 
 Reynoldson, L. A., and Thibodeaux, B. H. Mechanization in South has been re- 
 tarded by lack of a cotton-picking maohine. U. S. Dept. of Agr. Yearbook 
 of Agriculture 1932: 428-431. 
 
 Robot cotton pickers. Many problems still to be solved before such pickers 
 .are an accomplished fact. Textile World 89(l): 48. Jan. 1939. 
 304.8 T315 
 
 Russia -nleased by cotton picker test. Cotton Digest 9(l6): 14. Jan. 23, 
 1937. 286.82 CS22 
 
 Comment on "demonstration of the Rust Brothers* mechanical cotton 
 picking machine, (by) Charles Stanley, demonstrator of the machine." 
 
 Rust, J. D. Lower production cost is answer to cotton problem, Rust asserts. 
 "If King Cotton will mechanize, modernize kingdom, throne will be secure." 
 Cotter. Trade Jour. 19(17): 5, 6 t Apr. 29, 1939. 72.8 C3214 
 
 Rust, John. • The Rust cotton picker. South. Workman c Hampton Inst.: 67(12): 
 366-367. Dec. 1938. 275.8 So32 
 
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 Bust, J. D. The Bust cotton-picker - Will it solve the labor problem? 
 Cotton Digest 8(29): 16-17, illus. Apr. 25, 1936. 286.82 C822 
 The Bust picker and its operation and use are described. 
 
 cBust, John:. Bust defends good work of cotton picker. Challenges statement 
 that machine lowers grade of staple. Cotton Trade Jour. 18(32): 5, 8. 
 July 23, 1938. 72.8 C8214 
 
 Comments on the address of Charles A.- Sennet t entitled "The relation 
 of mechanical harvesting to the production of high grade cotton" given 
 at the 32nd annual meeting of the African Society of Agricultural En- 
 gineers, June 29, 1938, at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, Calif. 
 
 Bast brothers change original plan to lease cotton pickers. Sci. Hews Letter 
 32(871): 397. Dec. 18, 1937. 470 Sci24 
 
 Plan to sell cotton pickers outright is ngted. # 
 
 Bust brothers invent- improved cotton picker. Sci« News Letter 30(814): 313. 
 Nov. 14, 1936. 
 
 An improvement of their cotton picker, for which patents have just 
 been granted the Bast Brothers, is described. 
 
 Bust brothers plan to manufacture 1,000 pickers a year. Daily News Bee. cN. Y.] 
 no. 169, p. 1* July 21, 1938. 286.8 N48 . .' .. 
 
 Also in Textile Sul. 54(22): 6. July 28, 1938; Textile 'Age 2(8): 10, 
 12. Aug. 1938; Textile World 88(9): 32-33. Aug. 1933. 
 
 Bust brothers promise tandem picker. Cotton Digest c Houston: 9(39): 8. 
 July 3, 1937. 286.32 C822 
 
 "A new type double cotton picker, actually two of the old pickers in 
 tandem formation, will be introduced this fall." 
 
 The Bast cotton picker at work. Prog. Farmer (Car.-Va. ed. ) 5l(ll):. 11, illus. 
 Hov. 1936. 6 P945 
 
 Three photographs show the cotton picker in use at the recent Stone- 
 ville, Mississippi, demonstration. 
 
 Bust picker given public trycut. Cotton Digest 8(48): 9. Sept. 5, 1936. 
 286.82 C822 
 
 Describes briefly a public demonstration of the picking machine in- 
 vented by John and Mack Bust held at the Delta Experiment Farm at 
 Stoneville, Mississippi. 
 
 Busts are ready to begin mans picker production. Cotton Trade Jour. 19(13): 9. 
 Apr. 1, 1939. 72. 3 C3214" 
 
 "The Hast Cotton Picker Company, of Memphis, is ready to begin quantity 
 production of a mechanical cotton picker by means of which three men can ' 
 do the work of 100." 
 
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 Sanders, P. H. The kingdom of the negro, the male, and cotton. Cotton 
 
 Trade Jour, (Lntomatl. ed. ) 12(l): 49-50, 51-52, illus. Jan. 2, 1932. 
 
 72,3 C32i4~ ';;..:. 
 
 "The Yazoo-Mississippi Basin, known to the cotton world as the home 
 of 'Delta Staples 1 is breaking on old tradition. - The Mississippi Delta 
 grafts machine— minded. " g . "1 
 
 Says machine will pick cotton at $3.50 for 1,500 pounds. Inventor maintains 
 •grade of staple is "better than by hand-picking. Daily News Rec. [1T..Y.: 
 no. 166, p. 16. July 18, 1938. 286.3 JST48 
 
 Also in Cotton Trade Jour. 13(32): 6. July 23, 1938; Textile Bui. 
 54(22): 23. July 28, 1938. 
 
 The. machine was invented "by A. R. Hi shot, and is "being manufactured . 
 at San Angel o, .Texas. _. . 
 
 Schoffelmayer, V. E. Cotton sleds popular over South Plains. Large crop, 
 low prices make growers turn. to mechanical harvesters. Dallas Morning 
 News 48(86): 1, 12, illus. Dec. 25, 1932." 
 
 Also in Cotton Trade Jour.. 13(l): 4. Jan. 7, 1333. 
 
 "A Dallas News survey., .reveals that about 400 strippers and related, 
 although improved, types of cotton harvesters, have "been in use there 
 . throughout the foil*" Describes advantages of various types of harvesters. 
 
 Schoffelmayer, V. E. . Is cotton "mass production" coming? How much will the 
 changes in methods of harvesting cotton influence the future of cotton 
 growing?. Will mechanical substitutes replace human. labor? fill "sledding" 
 and. "snapping" "be the reaction to low prices? Cotton Trade Jour. (Inter- 
 nal, ed., 7th) 13(21): 20-21, 79, 98," illus. 1933. 72.8 C8214 
 A discussion of harvesting methods. 
 
 Illustrations show various types. of harvesting machines, such as the 
 stripper and the picker. 
 
 Schoffelmayer, V. H. Sledded cotton in West Texas. Country Gent. 92(6): 
 13-14. June' 1927. 6 C833 
 
 "The mechanical harvester may prove to he as great an advance as was 
 the gin," 
 
 Scoates, Dan. Cotton-picker progress. Country G-ent. 101 (6): 6, 65. June 
 193].. 6 C833 
 
 Discusses the development of two types of cotton pickers, one of which 
 picks the cotton out of the "boll while it is still on- the plant and the 
 other strips the cotton from the plant, "Loll and all. 
 
 Scoates, D^n. Mechanically harvesting cotton. Farm and Ranch 46(53): 2. 
 Dec. 31, 1927. 6 T31 ... . . ' . 
 
 Smith, H. P. Cotton harvesters. Better Crops vrith Plant Food 17(5): 21-23, 
 41-42, illus. Dec. -Jan. 1931-32. 6 B46 
 
 Describes an experiment with harvesting machinery at agricultural ex- 
 periment stations in Texas. Illustration shows type of plant being 
 developed for mechanical harvesting. 
 
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 Smith, E. P. Here's the dope on experiments to harvest cotton with machinery. 
 South.. Agr. 65(9): 12-13, illus. Sept. 1935. 6 So83 
 
 Smith, E. P., and ethers. Mechanical harvesting of cotton as affected "by 
 
 varietal characteristics and other factors, by K. P. Smith, D. T. Killough, 
 D. L. Jones, and LI. E. Byrom. Tex. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 580, 49pp. 
 College Station, 1939. 
 References, p. 49. 
 
 "Luring the past ten years the Texas Station Cotton Harvester has "been 
 improved so that it will harvest 94 to 98 per cent of the cotton from 
 varieties developed for mechanical harvesting* Experiments indicate that 
 an ideal, plant type is one having relatively short, short-noded fruiting 
 "branches, no vegetative "branches, an open type growth, light foliage, 
 storm resistance, and large strong "bolls spread open enough to permit 
 the locks of cotton to protrude from the "bolls in a fluffy condition 
 and "borne singly on peduncles ("bell stems) that will snap easily under 
 tension "but withstand plant .agitation." 
 
 Smith, H. P., and others. The mechanical harvesting of cotton, by.E. P. 
 
 Smith, B. T. Killough, M. E. Byrom, D. Scoates, and D. L. Jones. . Tex. 
 Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 452, 72pp., illus. College Station, i932. 
 Extracts in Oil Miller and Cotton Ginner 41 (2): B, Oct. 1932. 
 
 Smith, H. P. Mechanical harvesting of cotton progresses. Earm and Ranch 
 50(20): 2, 10, illus. May IS, 1931. 6 T31 
 
 Smith, H. P. The mechanical picker.. Cotton Digest 7(47): 6-7. Aug. 31, 
 1935. " 285.82 C822 
 
 Also in Textile Bui. 49(2): 7. Sept. 12, 1935. 
 
 The "stripper" and "picker" types of cotton harvesting machines and 
 the. problems of machine harvesting are discussed. 
 
 Smith, H. P. Progress in mechanical harvesting of cotton. Agr. Engin. 
 19(9): 389-391. Sept. 1933. 53.3 Ag83 
 
 "Paper presented "before the Power, and Machinery Division at the 
 annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural. Engineers, at 
 Pacific G-rove, Calif., June 29, 1938." 
 
 Also in Cotton Trade Jour. 18(42): 6. Oct. 1, 1938; Cotton Digest 
 11(3):. 3, 11. Oct. 22, 1933. 
 
 Smith, E, P., .aiid others. Progress in the study of mechanical harvesting 
 
 of cotton, by H. P. Smith, D. T. Killough, D. L. Jones, and M. H. Byrom. 
 Tex. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui, 511, 35pp., illus. College Station, 1935. 
 
 "The results obtained in the study of mechanical harvesting of cotton 
 are reported and a description is given of the improvements made during 
 the 1932-1934 period." - Bibliog. Trop. Agr., 1936, p. 210. 1937. 
 
 Smith, E. P. There 1 s many an unsolved problem in the machine harvesting of 
 
 cotton. P.n.rm Impl. Hews 58(10): 24-26, 40, illus. May 20, 1937. 58.8 T22 
 "The revolution in cotton harvesting is not yet and will net come 
 
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 until a suitable plant has "boon developed, to permit .the cotton harvest- . 
 ing machine to perform satisfactorily.. M 
 
 Southern tenant farmers? union, A statement concerning farm tenancy submitted 
 to the governor 5 s commission on farm tenancy by the executive council* 
 27pp % . , processed.' ^ Memphis? 1936 : 282 So82 
 
 A short section, pp. 18-?. 9, tells of successful demonstrations of the 
 Rust picker, and its probable effects on labor and upon the family-size 
 farm, and tenants. 
 
 Soviet cotton picker. Business Week, no, 504, t>. 49. Apr. 29, 1939. 
 280.8 Sy8 
 
 An announcement that "the All-Union Research Institute for Agricultural 
 Machinery cooperating with a Soviet plant has produced the first Russian 
 cotton pickers." . ... 
 
 Speculating on mechanical cotton pickers. Barren* s 16(40): 20. Oct. 5, 1936. 
 284. 8 B27 
 
 lae fire principles upon which manufacturers are working are listed. 
 "Experience has been that,. .unless the product is taken away from the 
 research departments and put into circulation, the day of its perfection 
 will he definitely delayed." 
 
 Stanford, J. E, The mechanical cotton picker. South. Agr. 66(10): 11, 
 Oct. 1936. 6 So 88 
 
 Describes the Rust Brothers cotton picker, tells what it con do, ond 
 lists the major criticisms expressed by observers at the demonstration 
 held, at Stcneville, Miss., August 31, 1936, 
 
 Straus, R. K, Enter the cotton picker:' the story of the Rust brothers 1 in- 
 vention. Harper's Mag. 173(1036): 386-395. Sept. 1936. 
 
 Sketches the history and background of the Rust brothers 1 cotton 
 picker, discussing the Rust brothers' hopes for the . machine , cost of 
 operation, and possible economic and social conscauences. 
 
 Condensed in Readers Digest 29(174): 43-47. Oct. 1936. 
 
 T alley, Robert. Cotton's now social problem. Nation's Business 24(ll): 29- 
 31, 91, Nov. 1935. 285.8 N212 
 On the Rust cotton picker'. 
 
 Taylor, A. ¥. The plight of the southern tenant. Christian. Cent. 53(14): 
 427-428. Apr. 3, 1935. 
 
 The writer analyzes the situation of the Southern tenant farmer, find- 
 ing that over-capitalization of land, low average per- capita- wealth, the 
 one-crop system and a bad credit system are the main factors contributing 
 to his plight. The mechanical cotton picker and the increase of cotton 
 growing in Brazil and Russia may bring even more calamitous difficulties. 
 
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 Taylor, A» W, Rust brothers open new pathi Their machine nay revolutionize 
 cotton industry: their social ideas nay influence profit- seekers. 
 Christian Cent. 53(17): 606-608, Apr. 22, 1936. 
 
 Plahs of the Bust brothers to introduce their cotton picking machine 
 without lowering labor standards are described. The Llano and Sherwood 
 Eddy cooperative cotton colonies are also described. 
 
 Test two other cotton-pickers'. International Harvester end Berry machines 
 receive field trials and show varying degrees of success. Business 
 Week no. 379, pp. 29-30, illus. Dec. 5, 1936, 
 
 The two machines arc described. Spinning tests of cotton picked by 
 these pickers and by the Rust cotton picker are mentioned. 
 
 These are the new models of the Rust cotton picker. Business Week Sept. 3, 
 1938, p. 24.' 280.8 Sy8 
 
 Pictures of The picker arc given. 
 
 Tractors and cotton pickers. Oil Miller and Cotton C-inner 46(4): 7. June 
 1935, 307,3 0i5 
 
 The article suggests the economic pjid social significance of in- 
 creasing use in the South and Middle Test of farm machinery to replace 
 farm, labor. A cotton picker that is "80^ perfected" is mentioned. 
 
 Ulm, A. H, A revolution in cotton picking. Nation's Business 15(5): 66-63. 
 May 1927. 286,8 17212 
 
 "The nest surprising thing in cotton this year - not even excepting 
 its price - is that several million bales of cotton, not picked oz r hand, 
 have gone to market from farms in the south since the beginning of the 
 present cotton season. More then a half million bales were gathered by 
 a distinctly machine method. This fact is of more significance perhaps 
 than any other event in the history of cotton since Whitney *s invention 
 of the cotton gin in 1733." 
 
 U. S. Dept. of, labor. Bureau of labor statistics. Machines for the harvest- 
 ing of cotton. U. S. Dept. Labor. Bur. Labor Stat is. Monthly Labor Rev, 
 25(5): 31-33. Nov. 1927. 153,6 BS7I/I 
 
 Gives descriptions of a cotton nicker of the spindle type, a cotton 
 stripper or boiler, and a cotton cleaner devised and now being tried 
 out by the Internationa]. Harvester Company, 
 
 Walker, H. 3. Mechanical cotton harvester experience in California. Agr, 
 Engin. 19(9): 392. Sent. 1933. 53,3 Ago 3 
 
 "Presented before the Power and Machinery Division at the annual 
 meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, at Pacific 
 Grove , . Calif • , June 29 , 1938 . " 
 
 Waterman, W, Mechanical picker is next step for improving American cotton. 
 Cotton Digest cHouston: 10(52): 3, 14-15. Oct. 1, 1938. 285.32 C322 
 
 The Qyracotn harvester is described and the type of plant needed for 
 mechanical harvesting is considered. 
 
 Also in Agr. Engin. 19(9): 39.3-394. Sent. 1933. 
 
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 WateirooJii W, Some needs in cotton harvesting development. Agr. Engin. 
 19(9): 393-394, Sept. 1938. 58.8 Ag83 
 
 "Paper presented pefore the Power and Machinery Division at the 
 annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, at 
 Pacific Grove, Calif., Jure 29, 1938." 
 
 Westbrook, E. C. Cotton nicker - friend or foe. Prog. Earner (Ga. -Ala. -El a. 
 ed.) 51(10): 12, illus. Oct, 1936. 6 P945G 
 
 The author concludes that in his opinion, "if the southeastern states 
 continue to work toward one variety cotton communities in the production 
 of quality cotton, the southeastern cotton will soil for enough above 
 the machine-picked western cotton to enable it to compete successfully." 
 
 Weybright, Victor. Two men and their machine. Survey Graphic 25(7): 432-433. 
 July 1936. 280.8 C37G 
 
 "The Rust brothers once picked cotton for a living. Now that they 
 have invented a mechanical picker they seek a way to launch it without 
 bringing catastrophe to the cotton worker, " 
 
 Whittam, William, A new cotton picker. Textile Recorder 53(629): 40, illus. 
 Aug. 15, 1935, 304,8 T311 
 
 The mechanical cotton picker, invented by J. D. and I.!. D. Rust, is 
 described, 
 
 Wiley, .Clarence A. The Rust mechanical cotton picker and probahle land-use 
 adjustments. Jour. Land & Public Util. Econ, 15(2): 155-166. May 1939, 
 232,3 J 32 
 
 The writer does not believe that the effects of the introduction of 
 the mechanical cotton picker will "be as dire as have been painted by 
 various writers and even the inventors of the machine themselves. The 
 major part of the article is devoted largely "to (l) a detailed compara- 
 tive analysis primarily to see the pro snoots of an early and wide intro- 
 duction of the machine; (2) to weigh the extent of the land-use adjust- 
 ments on the basis of comparative costs; and (3) to point out that intro- 
 duction of the machine possibly will be slow even in areas adopted to 
 machine farming because of limitations imposed by -(a,) expense of readjust- 
 ments in the size _ of the farm unit, (b) the difficulties presented "ay 
 cooperative operation of the machine, and (c) the availability of low- 
 paid hand -nickers, " 
 
 Wolf, George. Mechanical picker is still ahead. Amer, Cotton Grower 4(3): 
 20. Aug. 1933. 72.3 Am32 
 
 The Rust Brothers "hope and intend to have pickers on the market for 
 the season of 1939." Other types of pickers ore still. being tested. 
 
 Wolf, George, jr. The Rust cotton picker still a Question. Amer. Cotton 
 Grower 11(5): 8-9, 12. Oct. 1, 1936. 72.8 An32 
 
 Describes the three general cla.sses of automatic cotton picking 
 
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 machines that have "been invented since the Civil War - seven hundred and 
 fifty patents have "been issued since that tine - none of which has proven 
 itself in field tests. Contains also a description of the Rust cott< 
 picker, and lists valid objections to the work of the picker. 
 
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 ZC3-lI0I.il C LIBRARY LISTS 
 
 No. 1. State trade harriers; selected references. March 1939. 
 
 No. 2, The frozen food industry* selected references, January 1937 to March 
 1939. April 1939. 
 
 No. 3 t High drafting in cotton spinning; . selected references. April 1939. 
 
 No. 4. Egg auctions; selected references. July 1939. 
 
 No. 5. Acts administered by Agricultural Marketing Service. October 1939. 
 
 No. 6. Periodicals relating to shipping. October 1939. 
 
 No. 7. Electrical properties of cotton; some references to the literature, 
 1931-date. November 1939. 
 
 No. 8. Sea island cotton; selected references. November 1939. 
 
 No. 9. Cotton picking machinery; a short list of references. March 1940. 
 
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