Story Eidetic Sunshine: Daniella and Butch
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no, as in cotton bolls
FYI
The boll is the rounded mature fruit of the cotton plant. It is made up of separate compartments which are called locks, in which cotton seeds and lint grow. These open at harvest time. An average boll will contain nearly 500,000 cotton fibers.
Fruits of cotton are called cotton bolls. These fruits are green and immature and it contains a segmented pod. Cotton bolls are considered as fruits because they have approximately 32 immature seeds.
Each cotton boll usually contains 27-45 seeds, and attached to each seed is between 10,000 – 20,000 tiny fibres about 28mm in length. Cotton fibre is made from cellulose, has a slim coating of wax and is thin and hollow like a straw.
A Cotton BOLL is the dense roundish, fur clumps which grow on the stem of the cotton plants. Simply it's the raw form of cotton.
A Cotton BALL is fine processed cotton that has been cleaned and formed into a spherical shape for household use.
How many cotton balls does it take to make a shirt?
Ginning percent of cotton is around 35% so you get 165 odd grams of ginned cotton and rest is cotton seed. The T shirt weighs around 150 grams. Considering wastage you need around 125 cotton bolls for making a T shirt.
now you know
Texican
Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
When I was a child back in the early 1950's, my sis and I lived with my maternal grandparents on a farm and ranch. I was to young to go to school and so stayed with my grandad that farmed and ranched. My grandmother worked in Dallas.
Cotton and hay were the main crops. Grandad had the same crew of black cotton pickers come to the farm every year to pick the cotton. They drug cotton sacks and stuffed the sacks with the picked cotton and when the sack was full, it was weighed at the cotton trailer and grandad would mark down the weight of cotton in his book and then dumped the sack into the cotton trailer.
I would follow the elder black man and pick a few bolls and put them in his sack. He showed me how to pick the bolls and not get my fingers pricked by tips of the bolls which were sharp and would prick your fingers. Grandad would call me back to the cotton trailer so the elderly man could go back to work. Once the cotton trailer was full, other cotton trailers were used until the field was cleared. Grandad would pay the field hands their earnings. Then, we would take the cotton trailers to the gin which was the fun part for grandad would buy me a coke and a candy bar.
Picking cotton by hand was a hard job.
Texican....
Cotton and hay were the main crops. Grandad had the same crew of black cotton pickers come to the farm every year to pick the cotton. They drug cotton sacks and stuffed the sacks with the picked cotton and when the sack was full, it was weighed at the cotton trailer and grandad would mark down the weight of cotton in his book and then dumped the sack into the cotton trailer.
I would follow the elder black man and pick a few bolls and put them in his sack. He showed me how to pick the bolls and not get my fingers pricked by tips of the bolls which were sharp and would prick your fingers. Grandad would call me back to the cotton trailer so the elderly man could go back to work. Once the cotton trailer was full, other cotton trailers were used until the field was cleared. Grandad would pay the field hands their earnings. Then, we would take the cotton trailers to the gin which was the fun part for grandad would buy me a coke and a candy bar.
Picking cotton by hand was a hard job.
Texican....
larry_minn
Contributing Member
Hopefully it gets continued, then finished.
