With cotton industries closing down, farmers no longer had the access to the cotton machines to produce more cotton. Cotton farmers and growers wanted to produce more cotton by creating more cotton rows and beds which would maximize profit but lacked the necessary machinery needed to create multiple rows and beds simultaneously until the manufacture of the special harvester in Lubbock (Howell, 1976). The special harvester was equipped with a 13-foot header for the harvest of narrow-row cotton, thereby producing more cotton rows for farmers which, therefore, increased their profit (Howell, 1976). Narrow-row cotton was called one of the most promising production modifications of modern times because it achieved optimum yields at the lowest costs (Howell, 1976). After the development of the special harvester, farmers could now maximize their profits through cotton production and, therefore, have enough to provide for their …show more content…
Although this may just be a basic problem, with good weather comes good and quick harvest. “Farmers in wide areas are fighting the weather, trying to complete harvests” (Howell, 1976). For example, heavy rains mostly in the eastern and southern parts of Texas stopped farmers’ activities, preventing them from harvesting crops (Howell, 1976). Also, heavy rainfall was responsible for the washing away of cotton crops which made farmers work double in order to gain the crops they lost. Additionally, it was more difficult for farmers to harvest their crops especially in the scorching sun because they usually got tired