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