(ii) City of Shihezi, Xinjiang. Getty Images, Oct. 15, 2005. www.life.com/image/55929341
www.life.com/image/55928952
(b) Taiwan does not grow cotton.
(c) US (mechanization)
(i) An Introduction.
The Story of Cotton: How Cotton is Grown. National Cotton Council of America, undated.
http://www.cotton.org/pubs/cottoncounts/story/how.cfm
Quote:
"Since hand labor is no longer used in the U.S. to harvest cotton, the crop is harvested by machines, either a picker or a stripper. Cotton picking machines have spindles that pick (twist) the seed cotton from the burrs that are attached to plants’ stems. Doffers then remove the seed cotton from the spindles and knock the seed cotton into the conveying system.
"Conventional cotton stripping machines use rollers equipped with alternating bats and brushes to knock the open bolls from the plants into a conveyor.
Note:
* In this web page, see cotton balls were harvested, conveyed, sucked up and temporally stored at the side of the harvester.
* If a cotton harvester is used, cotton field will have to be defoliated first.
(ii) Picker
* For an overview of process, see
Alli and Daniel Walton, Cotton Harvest - Oct 2005.
http://www.pbase.com/alli/2005_cotton_harvest
* To see how barbed spindles works in a picker, see photo Nos. 13 and 14 (out of 15) in
Ken Grimm, Wilde Farms Cotton Harvest. San Angelo Standard-Times, Nov. 12, 2009.
http://www.gosanangelo.com/photos/galleries/2009/nov/12/wilde-farms-cotton-harvest/
The news story carrying the above photos is
Ken Grimm, Test Fields Help Farmers with Yields. San Angelo Standard-Times, Nov. 29, 2009.
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/nov/29/test-fields-help-cotton-farmers-with-yields/
("The fields were conditioned and prepared for planting using space technology")
San Angelo Standard-Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Angelo_Standard-Times
(a daily newspaper based in San Angelo, Texas, since 1884. It is owned by the newspaper group, The E.W. Scripps Company.)
(iii) Stripper
roller 滾桶
【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (1) Sugar Cane; Harvester by John Deere
: "emblatame (Ron)" took photographs of a sugar cane harvestor at work at
: Queensland, Australia on Aug. 31, 2009.
: Sugar Cane Harvester at Work and Hawks Circling - PHOTO 2.
: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25747229@N00/38858309
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