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Hunter Bunnell, Caleb Marr, Austin Moiser cotton
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Equipment Before you start you will need a seeder or a truck with a seeder. A cotton picker Dump truck Cotton baler Tractor and disk
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Fertilize Cotton fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. This helps the cotton grow so we can have close to where and blankets to keep us warm.
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Time to grow It usually takes 25 weeks for a cotton plant to be ready to be harvest. 160 non frost days
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Pictures
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Resources Ehow.com
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History on cotton Eli Whitney, a native of Massachusetts, secured a patent on the cotton gin in 1793, though patent office records indicate that the first cotton gin may have been built by a machinist named Noah Homes two years before Whitney’s patent was filed. Scientist searching caves in Mexico found bits of cotton bolls in a cloth that proved to be over 7,000 years old.
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Time to plant Seeding is done with mechanical planters and covers as many as ten to twelve rows at a time Cotton prefers sub tropical weather which means 60 to 90 degrees. When growing it prefers 70 to 80 degrees Cotton balls happen when temperatures 80 to 90 Soil needs to be 65 degrees and at a depth of 3 inches.
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Harvest and money time cotton is either stored on the edge of the field in big mounds Most farmers harvest in late August. It really picks up by early September. A bale of cotton weighs about 500 pounds and cost 225 dollars..
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Use for cotton Cotton is used for close like shits, insulated pants and caps. It is also made in to dish rags, tales. Cotton is made into a lot things we use today. cotton is used to make lightweight cloth,
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