Excerpt from Designing a Public Warehouse for Storing Flat Bales of Cotton Six men would be required during the peak of the cotton season, and two of these six men would be retained as a permanent crew. One man would weigh bales; three men would sample bales and assist in other operations; and two men would operate clamp trucks. The six men would work a total of about man-hours during the year. Five machines and eight attachments would be used in performing the handling operations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.