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  2. Cotton picker - Wikipedia

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    The first harvesters were only capable of harvesting one row of cotton at a time, but were still able to replace up to forty hand laborers. The current cotton picker is a self-propelled machine that removes cotton lint and seed (seed-cotton) from the plant at up to six rows at a time. There are two types of pickers in use today.

  3. John Appleby (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    In 1881, Appleby sold his grain binder machine patent interests to Champion Machine. He continued to work on various inventions, eventually patenting a horse-drawn cotton harvesting machine in 1905. [5] He died in Chicago in November 1917. John Appleby is the namesake of the small community of Appleby, South Dakota. [6]

  4. Tursunoy Akhunova - Wikipedia

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    In 1954 Akhunova became driver of a cotton harvester on the collective farm named after S. M. Kirov in Chinaz district, Tashkent oblast.Although she only harvested 20 tons of cotton in 1955, below the average output of 30 tons per machine that was expected, she greatly improved her productivity over the years, reaching 210 tones of cotton picked in 1959.

  5. Cotton module builder - Wikipedia

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    The cotton module builder is a machine used in the harvest and processing of cotton. The module builder has helped to solve a logistical bottleneck by allowing cotton to be harvested quickly and compressed into large modules which are then covered and temporarily stored at the edge of the field.

  6. Mechanised agriculture - Wikipedia

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    A cotton picker at work. The first successful models were introduced in the mid-1940s and each could do the work of 50 hand pickers. Mechanised agriculture or agricultural mechanization is the use of machinery and equipment, ranging from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated, motorized equipment and machinery, to perform agricultural operations. [1]

  7. List of agricultural machinery - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming.The best-known example of this kind is the tractor.. From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.

  8. Paul Whitin - Wikipedia

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    Paul Whitin (1767 – 1831) was an American blacksmith and pioneering industrialist who in 1826 in Northbridge, Massachusetts established P Whitin and Sons, a new cotton mill with his sons. This company would grow and acquire other mills in the area. In 1831 his son John C Whitin obtained a patent for a mechanized Cotton Picker.

  9. Agricultural machinery - Wikipedia

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    A John Deere cotton harvester at work in a cotton field. Combine is a machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing—into a single process.