Twenty or more farmers and business men of this town and community witnessed a feat of cotton ginning at the ginnery of G.W. Thomas, which probably means so much to the development of the cotton growing industry in this county, as the invention of the cotton gin meant to the South as a whole. J.R. Lummus, who lives a few miles from Roxboro, brought in a load of cotton weighing 1,270 pounds, which had been pulled burr and all instead of being picked clean in the fields. With Mr. Thomas’s up-to-date plant, including the new boll-breaker and cleaner attachments, this load of bolly cotton netted a bale weighing 318 pounds, which sold on the local market at 20 cents.
The work was done under the direction of Joe T. Banks, experimenter and boll ginning expert from Texas. The farmers who witnessed this novel process were enthusiastic about it, for it was a clear demonstration that every boll of the late local crop that has cotton in it can be saved.
From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday evening, Nov. 19, 1924
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