Originally Posted by Kas
I can smell the defoliater from here. Grew up in Alabama. Never picked it, but have pulled it out of the boll.
Where I grew up, "pulling" was grabbing the whole boll and putting it in the sack. "Picking" was pulling the cotton from the boll (and stabbing your fingers with the boll points).
I remember my daddy plowing with a couple of mules and my having to "pick" the cotton. I still have some scars on my fingers that I attibute to the cotton bolls.