This
mural is located on East Business 59 and painted on the Farmers Co-op Cotton
Warehouse. It depicts the history of cotton from the early days when it
was picked by hand and taken by wagons and mules to the gin. It shows the
small bales ready for transportation to other places for processing. There
is a modern gin and machinery for harvesting today. Shown also is machinery
that presses the cotton into large modules on the fields awaiting transportation
to the gin for ginning. There the seed is separated from the fiber, and
the fiber is pressed into bales. The seed is processed into feed for cattle,
oil, and other products. Some seed is treated and saved to plant the next
year.
Sponsor: Farmers Co-op Gin
Artist: Dayton Wodrich 1996