The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, September 22, 1920, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
PEARSON SAYS HE HAS
A REAL COTTON PICKER
Working on the Principle of the Va
cuum Cleaner, New Machine
Does Wonders in a Cot
Ion Patch.
Mr. James T. Pearson, who arrived
in Anderson some weeks ago from
California, where he moved last
spring, made his plans public this
morning to the secretary of the chamber
of commerce and newspaper men
his plans including the introduction
of a cotton picking machine to the
people of Anderson.
This machine, according to Mr
Pearson is the nearest thing to perfection
in cotton picking that has
yet been invented. Being a practical
? cotton man and a man who has al
ways lived in the cotton country
and who has dealt in cotton practical
ly all of his life, Mr. Pearson is naturally
acquainted with cotior. and
the gathering of the crop. The marine,
he says, wpi d>? the work,
quicker, better and get claaner cotton
than when it is picked by hand.
Mr. Pearson became interested an
the machine through an article in the
Literary Digest and wen*. C3 California
to investigate. His investigations
have proven to his satisfaction that
the machine will do what is needed
to be done, to gather a cotton crop,
faster, cleaner and better than it can
be done by hand. The article which/,
attracted Mr. Pearson's attention to
the machine was published in the
1 Literary Digest and reads as follows: j
Cotton is now gathered in the Im- j
perial Valley of California by a device
that works on the principle of a <
vacuum cleaner. It is asserted that 1
cotton picked by it is cleaner than <
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aid an inexperienced laborer can
work three or four times as fast as i
experts of the old methods. The ma- <
chine weighs about 1,000 pounds and!<
can be easily moved. Around its light' ]
skeleton are a 300-pound, 16-horse ]
. power engine, a suction pump for i
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. nozels and a centrifugal separator 1
for parting the cotton from the <
leaves, sticks and other debris taken 1
in by the nozzles. These nozzle's are
five in number, at the end of light, ]
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18-foot rubber pipes connected with'
, an 8-foot tube running traversely!
I over the machine. To quote from an
article in the Scientific American
(New York, October 19): ,
"The powerful suction pump on the
machinp endeavors constantly to
keep the picking pipes in a state of
vacuum, wherefore, when the nozzle ]
I has passed over a row of bolls, the .
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ries it through the pipes into the i
centrfugal separator. Here power- }
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the cotton from the leaves, sticks and s
the motes, which are not desirable,
and finally drives the separated mass j
to a curved pipe at the rear. The ^
leaves are driven out through per- ^
forations in the top of the pipe. The ?
cotton is driven through to a sack I ?
or basket at the end.
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rubber pipe are handled by a man 0
and the speed in action depends up- j,
on the skill he acquires. A single j,
sweep of the nozzle across the white! e
row of bl6ssoms is alleged to pick p
them clean, the time being that re- j
quired to pick one boll. ^
The rate of picking cotton by hand
seems to vary from 100 to 200 pound j,
per day, the record being made by a f,
colored person who, picked 900 pound tl
ir. one day, but did it on the run a
without attempting to do more than 11]
to get the easiest reached. Also ^
cotton pickers are wasteful, the waste tl
running as high as 50 per cent, of a;
the crop and the amount, according
to government reports running into
hundreds of millions.
It is human nature to pick the bolls m
an tip and to let those lying on the w
back breaking strata at the bottom
jf the bush remain to sleep in the Si
southern sunshine. e(
The persons running the California th
machine described and illustrated ec
;laim that five men with a machine sj
:an pick a thousand pounds per man cc
per day of ten hours, or 5,000 pounds h
per day and that it does a clean job th
instead of a wasteful one, because ei
the nozzles do not mind being required
to get down to the bottom of i e<
the plant. I io
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may be that the machine withou
brains ven though directed by hu
man hands at the very nozzles wil
still not pick with the proper dis
crimination, but the fact remains thai
this is the first one on record reaching
the present stage of hopefulness
As cotton authorities allege thai
last year, not far from a million persons
were engaged in the harvesting
?f cotton .the machine able to do th?
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ivork of five times the number of
lien needed to operate it and to do it
with little labor on the part of the
:rew might well be an investion of
jerious national need.
Mr. Pearson stated that he did not
:ave a machine in the east at the
>resent time, but that he had one
vhich would arrive here in October,
ind that he was arranging to have
>ne man reserve a whole field of
otton to be picked by this machine
le is going to give demonstrations
if the practical use of the machine
r. Anderson county. He said that
ie intends to have his machine at
very state and county fair that it is
ossible for him to attend, and to
emonstrate the machine at all of
hem.
Mr. Pearson said that his son was
iterested in the gold mine in Caliornia,
but that the great need of
he cotton picking machine, and his|
ppreciation of the immense value of
le machine to Anderson county far
lers was in his opinion a bigger
ling for the southern farmers thai
II the gold mines in the world.
Pictures Shown.
The company has issued a short
oving picture film, which shows the
ork of (the machine. This was
lown to a small gathering at the'
trand theatre this morning. It show-'
1 the machine in operation, and
tough the operators were not skui1
cotton pickers, the machine did
ilendid work. It also showed the
mstruction of the machine, how it is
jilt, being high enough to go over i
le stalks of cotton, and not heavy
lough to sink into the ground.
Mr. Pearson is very much enthuak
1 over the new appliance and is anx^
us to get his machine to Anderson
tid have it in actual operation.?
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