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The cost of producing cotton : 842 records, 1918 (1920)

Moorhouse, L. A. (Llewellyn Alexander), Cooper, Maurice R. (Maurice Royce), 1905- · Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture · leaf 23

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OF AGRICULTURE. represented approximately 20 per cent of the growers who were mter-viewed. Of the remaining 80 per cent, 60 per cent did the cuttingwith the stalk cutter, using mule or horse power. The remainder didthe work by hand, using a stick or a hoe. The latter process is knownas knocking… … Fig. 3.—Knocking stalks.Table XV.—Cut sialics. state and county. Reporting. Num-ber. Per cent of total records. Acres per farm. In cot-ton. Cov-ered, Crew. Man, Mule. Hours per acre. Man. Mule. Georgia: Laurens County... Greene County Sumter County...Alabama: Tallapoosa County Marshall County..…

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