and wooden machinery were in universal use for thepreparation of cotton for market. Every plantation hadits gin and gin-house, and, barring only the separation ofthe lint from the seed and baling, all the operations inhandling cotton were performed by man power. Thecotton was picked by hand,… … 3 m o >>oS D.r+ o O o o
Cotton manufacture
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