The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

Cotton as a service, if you will. The gin could do about 55 pounds a day, so one simple machine and one or two people could do the work of at least 55 people. The gin made cotton profitable which ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin ... your patent may be made out & delivered to your order immediately." ...