There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1897 Peter Paul Haring patented ...

Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes’s farm there were 15,000 of them—come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.

August 22, 2022 by Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high school in Texas has come under fire after their mascot, the "Cotton Pickers," went viral this week. Robstown High School's ...

John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...