Excerpts: Picking by hand has always been the universal method of harvesting cotton. In parts of Texas and Oklahoma a part of the crop does not always mature and as early as 1910, the practice was to gather the cotton by PULLING or SNAPPING the immature bolls from the stalk, whereas in PICKING, the matured seed cotton was extracted from the open bolls and the hulls were left on the stalks. The lint which was extracted from the immature bolls was known as "bollie cotton". Snapping cotton, as practiced at present, represents an extension of the old method of saving bollies, whereby the practice of snapping the immature fruit from the plant gave way to the practice of actually hand stripping the plant of both open and unopen bolls. Recently the hand stripping method has been replaced on some farms in Western Texas and Oklahoma by "sledding". The cotton sled is a great saver of time and labor and much interest in its development has been manifested in the eastern part of the Cotton Belt as well as in those parts of the Cotton Belt where it is now used in a more or less limited way. The purpose of this report is to indicate the main reasons for the introduction of the sled, the possibilities of using it elsewhere, and the outstanding advantages and disadvantages of harvesting cotton with the sled as compared with harvesting by "picking'' or "snapping".