[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0546]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "COTTON HARVESTING in the Altus area was about 80 percent complete Tuesday, and farmers planned to wait until green bolls open before going to work with mechanical strippers. Very little opportunity for hand pullers exists in fields such as this, the Oklahoma State Employment Service said, since most of the crop will be harvested mechanically. About 100 bales were waiting to be processed at one gin Tuesday.