But this machine today is a better cotton picker than the old Model T Ford was an automobile when it was first offered.” Oscar Johnston is the bulky, crinkle-eyed manager of the British-owned ...

When the two-hour limit was up, one of the pickers had turned in 129 Ib. of “good clean cotton.” He was 15-year-old Harold Mason, a shy, gangling Senath, Mo. schoolboy, youngest competitor in ...