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Chopping cotton isn't really chopping cotton. When you are "chopping cotton" you are chopping down weeds that are growing in the rows that the cotton is planted in. Johnson grass and stuff like that.
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Chopping cotton is taking a hoe and thinning the emerged plants to insure proper spacing and only most healthy were left. This is no longer done today.
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What does the saying chopping high cotton mean?
It goes back to the days of "stoop labor" in the cotton fields, where workers would work bent at the waist from dawn to dusk, "choppin' cotton." About the best they could expect out of their day was to be choppin' high cotton, so that they didn't have to stoop over as much. The above answer is false! When you "Chop cotton", actually you chop the weeds that are growing around the cotton plants. More importantly you never have to STOOP when chopping cotton whether the cotton plants are 6 Ft. tall or 2 Ins. tall. I was born on a cotton farm in 1936 in Mississippi & have many years of intimate knowlege of the laborious proccess. "COTTON PICKER"
What is the meaning of the word damp cotton?
Wet cotton
What is the meaning of cotton lint?
Cotton lint is the fibre derived from seed cotton after the seed cotton has been ginned. Seed cotton is the ball of the cotton plant as picked from the field.
What is the difference between algodon cotton and regular cotton?
There are no differences in Algodon Cotton and Regular Cotton. Algodon is the Spanish word meaning cotton in the English translation.
What are chopping boards used for?
Chopping
What does a hoe looked like that is used to chop cotton?
As I remember, they're similar to a garden hoe except the metal part that does the chopping is about twice has high/long. Also, they were made such that instead of the handle going into a shallow metal cone and ending inside it, they stuck through the metal chopping part.
A sentence with the word chopping?
the chef is chopping tomato
When was Chopping Machine created?
Chopping Machine was created in 1995.
When was Richard Chopping born?
Richard Chopping was born in 1917.
When did Richard Chopping die?
Richard Chopping died in 2008.
What are wooden glass and plastic chopping boards used for?
chopping
What is the tray you use in chopping called?
Chopping board/ cutting board
