Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 12/26/19

Silver Lake Growers Gin expects to bundle nearly 38,000 bales of cotton lint this year, in part because of better-than-average yields. Donald Smith, general manager at the gin, said while the yield has been above average, growers are still suffering from low prices on cotton. The cotton gin removes cottonseed, dried flower parts and stem from bolls of cotton. The process was once tediously done by hand but mechanized when Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin in 1794.

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