13 reactions | The Texas Cotton Ginners Association has officially kicked off their annual meeting & cotton trade show! The show will be going on at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center today until 4:30 p.m. and tomorrow from 9:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. so come out and see what's happening in the industry so vital to our economy! | Lubbock Chamber of Commerce | Facebook

35K views · 91 reactions | Congratulations to Texas Cotton Ginners' Trust on your ground breaking! We are proud to have you as a member of the Lubbock Chamber!  | Lubbock Chamber of Commerce | Facebook

The hand crank cotton gin shown in the video uses simple mechanical motion to separate cotton fibers from their seeds. As the crank turns, fibers are pulled through narrow slots while the larger seeds are held back, completing in seconds what once took much longer by hand. Before machines like this, removing seeds from cotton was slow and labor intensive, often done fiber by fiber. Early cotton gins dramatically increased efficiency, allowing farmers to process far more cotton in a single day an

87K views · 4.6K reactions | Cotton was the primary cash crop in the...