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Don't you wonder who looked at the first cotton plant and figured out it could be made into cloth?
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We drive by cotton fields quite often but my children had never seen a cotton boll up close. Recently we stopped and picked one that was near harvesting. That is also an interesting "close up" experience if you have never seen one. I lived on a cotton farm for a while and there are many hours put into the process of growing, picking and processing raw cotton.
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Wow, that is awesome to see!! Thanks
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I still love to drive through the cotton fields in N. Fl and lower Alabama.
After the cotton has been harvested, I will see it blowing along the side of the roads where it blew from the trucks. As kids, we used to lie on the cleaned cotton seed. They were so slick and would shift with your weight. The seeds were ground up for for the oil and livestock feed. |
Thanks for sharing. I've seen cotton growing in the wild but this got me
curious how it's baled. I worked in textiles for 12 years so I'm familiar with the spinning and weaving, etc. but not with the ginning process. Those who are interested can go to Youtube...type "cotton gin". Very interesting. |
Thanks for sharing. The pictures are very cool.
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It all looks very tidy.The cotton fields I've seen over here usually have tufts of cotton bolls along the edge of the road and fluffing around the fields.
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I've never seen cotton growing either - that's awesome, thanks for sharing :)
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I love your story, that's so sweet...I can just picture a little 8 yr old lugging bricks...
Originally Posted by Phannie1
I love seeing the cotton fields in Arkansas and southern Missouri. My Mom and her family was cotton pickers when she was a kid. She told many stories around time in the cotton fields. My favorite one is when she was eight, she found some bricks at the end of a row. When you get paid by the pound, she knew if her bag was heavier she would get paid more. Those old men knew how heavy a bag should be and picked up on something amiss. Found the bricks and nicknamed her "the Brick Picker"
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My son on a trip down south..was able to pick some cotton..we still have it to this day. He was only 11 when he went with his aunt and uncle on this trip. He still talks about it to this day.
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