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    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Jun 11, 2021 4 minutes

    Does this cotton seed sorter ring a bell?

    I have this piece, which is stenciled with the words Carolina Cotton Seed Sorter. I’ve searched everywhere for information about it but have not found anything. Does anyone know anything about this?

    Clarence Gibbs, Inman, South Carolina

    Editor’s note: We’ve run this up a few flagpoles, and it turns out that the sorter was built by Keystone Farm Machine Co., York, Pennsylvania. “From studying the photos, it definitely seems to be a sorter, with graded screens from top to bottom,” says Bill Friday, Huntsville, Alabama. “The southern cotton economy has always used the hairy-seed upland cotton variety, as opposed to the Sea Island or 

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