cotton

     

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows aroun the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium sp.), a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa. The fiber most often is spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile, which is the most widely used natural-fiber cloth in clothing today. The English name which began to be used circa 1400, derives from the Arabic (al) qutn قُطْن, meaning cotton. In the 1800s and 1900s cotton was called "King Cotton" because of the great power it had in the economy.

Trivia about cotton

  • The agricultural area known as The Black Belt is famous for growing this crop
  • During his last months of life, Jackson was troubled by the low price of this, the Hermitage's cash crop
  • In production of cotton, minerals & natural gas, the 1 in which Louisiana doesn’t rank #2 in the U.S.
  • After the South took it, the fort endured a 15-mo. siege, reinforcing its walls, symbolically, with bales of this
  • U.S. dollar bills are 25% linen & 75% this fiber
  • Thread made of this fiber is often mercerized, giving it greater strength & affinity for dye
  • By the end of Reconstruction, production of this "king" crop in the South was nearly equal to pre-war levels
  • An 1855 book was called this cash crop "is King; or, the Economical Relations of Slavery"
  • The country's most important crop; Egypt became Europe's main supplier during our Civil War
  • Accounting for half of all U.S. exports in 1855, this crop was "King"
  • This crop is king in Mali; about 1/2 of its export income comes from it
  • Savannah's antebellum Green-Meldrim House was built for a wealthy dealer in this "king"ly crop
  • 19th century American "King of the South" that's a 2nd anniversary gift
  • In the 400s B.C. Herodotus told the Greeks that India had plants that bear fleece--he meant this
  • A Hanes pocket T-shirt made of 100% this
  • Plant from which Eli Whitney's gin removed seeds
  • Eli Whitney probably knew that many potpourris use the fruit of this plant of the genus Gossypium
  • Calico,denim,Q-Tip tips
  • The seal of Memphis shows a steamboat & this fiber plant
  • An 1855 book subtitled "The Economical Relations of Slavery" was titled this "Is King"
  • This crop is "king" in the country's agricultural economy
  • NBA coach Fitzsimmons or Puritan preacher Mather
  • On Tajikistan's flag, the white stripe is symbolic of this plant used in fabrics
  • During the 1800s the growing of sugar & this fiber became big business in Louisiana
  • Mali is the largest African producer of this plant fiber crop, its chief export
  • When the market for this crop bottomed out in the 1870s, central Floridian farmers began growing oranges
  • The soft white fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family
  • For 100 years until the Great Depression, this crop was the undisputed king of Mississippi's agrarian economy
  • U.S. paper currency is made of 25% linen & 75% this fiber
  • Bollgard is a genetically modified brand of this plant

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