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A cotton cutter or picker
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What is the machines called that that picks the cotton boll?
Cotton gins. Actually, it is called a cotton picker
How cotton is extracted from the cotton plant?
Cotton grows ". . .in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants." The boll are picked or plucked from the bush either by hand or by machine.
How is cotton extracted or grown?
There is a machine that picks of the cotton seed and fluff or there are people that go along each row picking the cotton they are called Cotton Pickers cotton used to be collected by hand but now its collected by machines!
What are the fibers of the cotton boll used for?
What is a cotton boll used 4?
What is the mechanical cotton picker?
It picks cotton and it is a machine that runs by itself without having to pick the cotton with your hands.
How does boll weevil destroy the cotton plant?
The boll weevil has this big snout and it uses it to bite the top of the cotton plant. Then it licks out the cotton until it has no more cotton inside the ball. The boll weevil larvae and pupal do the same thing but they have to get help from the adult boll weevil to eat the top og the cotton plant.
How is a boll weevil destroy cotton?
They eat the buds off the cotton plants. The boll weevil does not destroy the cotton plant directly, it destroys the boll wherein grows the cotton and its seeds.
What is the seed pod of cotton called?
The seed of cotton is called 'cotton seed'.The pod that contains the cotton seed and the cotton fiber is called a 'boll'.
What does boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
What was hard to remove from the cotton boll?
The cotton! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What is the difference in cotton-picking and cotton pulling?
Cotton picking is pulling the soft cotton out of the hard boll that has opened when the cotton is ready to be harvested. Cotton pulling is harvesting the cotton by pulling the entire opened boll, with the cotton in it.
What is an example sentence for boll weevil?
The boll weevil ruined the cotton crops.
