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Modern cotton picking in the United States is done mechanically by farming machines. Most cotton is harvested by a device simply known as a mechanical cotton picker. Similar to a combine in appearance, the machine plucks off the cotton fiber balls and leaves much of the remaining plant intact. Farmers in Texas will often use a stripper to harvest cotton. Again similar to a combine, this machine strips the plant of fiber, leaves, and stems, then compacts and bales the fiber balls. A few other countries such as Spain and Greece also use the stripper method. Both methods require considerable cleaning of the fiber balls before they are usable as a textile. Most other countries that produce cotton still use the manual or hand-pick method of harvesting.
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Who picks cotton this day?
Most cotton now is picked by machinery.
When was I Never Picked Cotton created?
I Never Picked Cotton was created in 1969.
How is cotton picked?
Cotton is currently picked by machine. They used to have slaves pick the cotton in the south by hand. You seem to have forgotton the people (both white & black) that picked cotton after the slaves & before the cotton picking machines.
Who picked the cotton on the plantation?
Back in the way back days, slaves did. HMMM! I was not a slave & I picked cotton on a Mississippi plantation!
When do you plant cotton?
Cotton is picked in Autumn. There is a Nov 1 deadline to have all the cotton picked so it can be plowed under to prevent cotton weevils . If it rains while the cotton is being picked it yellows the bolls and the value of the cotton goes down. You use a cotton picker and a module builder to do this.
How is cotton extraceted?
In today's society it is picked by a machine in the fields. Back before the machine was invented slaves or others did it by hand and picked out the seeds. Now the machine sorts and picks out the seeds.
How did cotton bowl get its name?
Many NFL players' ancestors picked cotton, hence the Cotton Bowl
How long did Harriet Tubman pick cotton?
I think Harriet Tubman picked cotton.
How did slaves gather cotton?
They picked cotton by hand. Hand picking was the only option until the 1950's when cotton picking machine was developed. Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14 1794 to remove the seeds and pods from the picked cotton
What is the meaning of cotton lint?
Cotton lint is the fibre derived from seed cotton after the seed cotton has been ginned. Seed cotton is the ball of the cotton plant as picked from the field.
How is the cotton gin useful?
After the cotton is picked it is sent to a gin. The gin removes the seeds and the cotton is cleaned and bailed for shipment.
How do they get the cotton from the plants?
Cotton is picked from the shrubs where it grows. The cotton fibre is encased in a hard-shell boll which cracks open when the cotton fibre is fully formed.
