DAMP FINGERS
_». It pays to notice small things. As lads picking cotton on their farm in America the Rust boys noticed that the cotton stuck to their fingers on dewy mornings. This was the germ of the Rust brothers' cotton-picking machine, which threatens to revolutionise, not. only the cotton-growing industry but the social economy of the South. In their machine moistened spindles serve as the damp fingers to twist the cotton from the open bolls. Small things noticed, if the information is used, may be the seeds of great opportunity.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 22
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90DAMP FINGERS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 22
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