The Visual Record

Now for something a little different. This is a cotton burr burner in Ropesville, Texas. I took this in early July while visiting my folks in the town near which I grew up. This is located next to a cotton gin and was used to dispose of the burrs (outer seed hulls) removed by the gin mills in the cotton beneficiation process. This structure is composed of stacked bricks stabilized by iron (steel?) bands and probably dates from the '50's, or earlier, when mechanized cotton harvesting was developing. (Kodak DX7630)