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11.08.06 (9:49 pm)   [edit]

Wool traders beware

Each generic product has its unique usage and heavy demand during a particular season. Though due to the global warming impact there has been many seasonal alterations, but the months of Nov – Jan are considered to be the colder months of the world particularly in the northern hemisphere. Precision minded traders had already started planning for woolen products since June.

 

However this is high time for wool traders to cut their pie in the global market. A good way to ensure quick wool pricing and target buyers / sellers is through the textile web portals. My portal YNFX is positioning its base for the winter products. You may also check for any of you requirements if you are a trader. However it would be a good shot if you could visit multiple textile products before finalizing on a deal.  

 

  

 

11.08.06 (12:39 am)   [edit]

Harvesting cotton by hand

Harvesting the cotton by hand was another limitation of productivity.  An experienced laborer could pick approximately 450 pounds of seed cotton (cotton removed from the plant with seeds intact) by hand per day.  A picking device was first patented in 1850 and a stripper (a machine that strips both open and unopened bolls and trash from the plant) in 1871. 

In the early 1930's, after years of development and change, the Rust Brothers of Mississippi used a one row mechanical cotton picker (a machine that used revolving spindles or barbed points to grab and pull the cotton from the open boll) of their design to pick approximately 8,000 pounds of seed cotton in one day.  This was quite an improvement in cotton harvest efficiency.