Abstract: An improved, hydraulically controlled, cotton harvesting apparatus comprising: cotton receiving and containing means; means for feeding cotton to a cotton boll breaking means; cotton boll breaking means comprising a roller and a brush operatively associated with said roller; cotton cleaning and ginning means comprising a plurality of cleaning saws each of said saws having a brush operatively associated therewith and on one side thereof and a rotary stripper adjacent and opposite of bottom portion of each of said saws; cotton condensing means for receiving cleaned and ginned cotton comprising a plurality of rollers and means for exhausting air therefrom; a piston horizontally mounted below the condensing means and movable between first and second positions to provide cotton to a compressing and baling means comprising an enclosure having a piston vertically mounted in the upper portion thereof and being movable from an upper to a lower position to compress and bale cotton.