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- View over a cotton field that is to be harvested in 3 days.
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- The fields behind the gin were 3 days away from harvest.
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- Our tour in the field being harvested.
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- Unharvested cotton.
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- Cotton bolls that the harvester missed.
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- The harvester.
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- The front of the harvester.
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- The view from the cab as cotton enters the harvester. (It was a bumpy ride!)
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- The view from the harvester.
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- The view from the harvester.
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- The cotton did not develop enough in low places. We had a cold, wet summer and the lower cotton plants had too much water.
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- The harvester about to drop a bale.
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- Bales of cotton.
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- The cotton in a bale.
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- In the cotton fields.
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- Harvested rows. There is some waste, but it is not worth the gas money to run the harvester over the fields a second time.
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- An empty cotton pod.
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- Empty cotton pod.
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- Cotton pods that did not open enough to harvest.
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- Cotton farmer Ronnie Burleson answering questions.
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- Trucks arriving at the gin with bales of cotton.
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- A diagram of the parts of the gin.
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- Inside Rolling Hills Cotton Gin, New London, NC.
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- The bales of cotton entering the system.
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- The actual gin part of the system. A waterfall of cotton is falling onto metal saws that pull away the cotton, leaving the seeds to drop down.
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- The gin with a fast shutter speed to show cotton bolls entering the gin, and seeds falling down below.
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- The shed where the seeds end up, to be sold for their oil or cattle feed.
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- Hydraulic presses mash the ginned cotton into bales.
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- Watching the cotton baler.
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- Scraps of cotton litter the floor inside the gin.
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