Southern Documentary Journal

A blog by Houck Medford

A bowl of cotton soup …

Bates Houck
In the “bone yard” of Riley Repair Service, Houck’s Gin Road, Cameron, S.C.

 

It is cotton-picking season in the Low-Country of South Carolina and what picks cotton today are not people but spindles … 3,360 of them to be exact on a six-row John Deere Model 7660 cotton harvester

John-Deere-7660
photo credit: John Deere Corporation