For most of my life, the "bagging and ties" weighed 20-22 lb, which meant that the weight of the cotton was actually about 480 lb per bale. There was an 'acceptable' weight range....which I've forgotten; if the bale weighed more or less than what was acceptable, it would be discounted pricewise. I no longer grow cotton, but understand that bagging and ties now weigh about 5 lbs. There were 3 gins in our little town (population about 3000 back then) when I was growing up. They were all electrically powered. One of the ginners was missing an arm.......which he'd gotten caught in one of the exposed belts. Nearly every community in the county also had a gin or 2 and some of them were powered by diesel engines. In one of the communities we lived in (Arp, TN in 1948), the engine had a very distinctive sound and could be heard for a long distance; everyone said, "That's Old Mother Arp patting her foot." In my era, a good gin/ginner would put out 3 or even 4 bales per hour; I have no idea what they do now..........probably 30 or more bales per hour. Every county also had a "compress".....the Federal Compress in my part of the world; was just the name of the company and had nothing to do with the government. The bales were transported there, where they were unwrapped and compressed further........into about half the size they were from the gin. The local compress was about a mile and a half from where I lived and used steam pressure; they did about 2 bales a minute and you could hear the steam release after each one. Here, the railroad ran right by the compress and the bales were shipped by rail....
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