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How To Pick A Pepper
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Why Can't a Machine Pick His Peppers?
In the 1880s, commercial production began on a machine that could do it all at once. The American agricultural industry has been busy automating things ever since. In 1936, the first practical cotton picking machine was demonstrated in Mississippi. More recently, machines have started harvesting everything from olives to potatoes to carrots.
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