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Mechanical cotton-pickers slash cotton labor in 10 states
In the past four years mechan ical cotton-pickers replaced 250,000 seasonal farm laborers across 10 major cotton states. Total seasonal workers dropped from 500,000 in 1961 to about 230,000 this year as California led in mechanization and other states near that level.
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California
Texas
Arkansas
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Tennessee
Mississippi