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Cotton

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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COTTON USES

  • Bed sheets
  • Tents
  • Clothing
  • Salad dressing
  • Cookies
Photo by Conekt
2.

MOST COTTON?

  • Texas,our state, grows the most cotton with millions of
  • Bails of cotton every year. 5.5 million bails between 2010 and 2012.
Photo by @matpacker
3.

3 COUNTRIES?

  • China-33 million bails
  • India-26.8 million bails
  • USA-17 million bails
Photo by jadis1958
4.

COTTON PLANTING?

  • In south Texas , cotton can
  • Be planted as soon as feb.1st or as
  • Late as june 1st
Photo by Boston Public Library
5.

COTTON MACHINES

  • Cotton machines pick and twist out the seeds from the cotton
  • Then the cotton machines put the cotton on a moving sidewalk and move the cotton to store it
Photo by sinosplice
6.

US COTTON?

  • Cotton in the us is grown in 17 states.
  • Alabama,Arkansas,Arizona,California,
  • Florida, Georgia,Kansas,Louisiana,Mississippi,Missouri,New Mexico
  • North Carolina,Oklahoma, South Carolina,Tennessee,Texas, and Virginia.
Photo by fireboat895
7.

ONLY ONE BAIL!

  • One bail of cotton ca make over 12 hundred t-shirts and
  • more than 300 thousand $100 dollar bills.
Photo by nathanmac87
8.

BOLL WEEVIL?

  • It is a nasty bug and the natural enemy of cotton.
  • They only live for three weeks and spread 200 cotton hungry eggs
  • That is a lot of missing cotton!
Photo by atomicshark
9.

US EXPORTS?

  • The us exports more than half of its cotton
  • 65 percent to be precise
Photo by ecstaticist
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BUSINESS REVENUES(MONEY)

  • The cotton business makes over $100 billion dollars every year worldwide
Photo by AltimeterGroup

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