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Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina
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The Rust brothers' cotton picking machine, capable of harvesting up to 1500 pounds per hour, undergoes its first test on irrigated fields in Arizona, far surpassing hand pickers' daily output of under 100 pounds.
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A machine that may revolutionize cotton picking in the vast fields of South and Southwest here is shown in operation in Arizona, being used for the first time on irrigated land. The invention of the Rust brothers of Memphis, Tenn., it picks as high as 1500 pounds of cotton in an hour. Hand pickers average less than 100 pounds in a day. The picture at the left is a rear view of the machine as it moves down a row. At the right is a closeup of the operation, showing the spindles that draw the cotton into the machine, whence it is moved by an air tube into the sack shown attached to the long arm in the picture at the left.
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Arizona
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the machine picks as high as 1500 pounds of cotton in an hour, compared to hand pickers averaging less than 100 pounds in a day.
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A cotton picking machine invented by the Rust brothers of Memphis, Tenn., is tested for the first time on irrigated land in Arizona, potentially revolutionizing cotton picking in the vast fields of the South and Southwest.