Bale O' Cotton: The Mechanical Art of Cotton Ginning

by Karen Gerhardt Britton Fort

Bale o' Cotton: The Mechanical Art of Cotton Ginning offers a unique blend of fact and folklore about cotton ginning, the process that takes cotton from the field, separates fibers from seeds, and packages the lint into a bale for shipment to market. It traces the development of the industry, the equipment, and the techniques of this integral facet of American life from its English beginnings in 1793, through its heyday in the American South, to its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623492971
• ISBN13: 9781623492977
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"