Cotton Machines
He invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
In 1892, this insect migrated from Mexico through Brownsville, Texas and spread rapidly throughout the Cotton Belt.
What is the Boll Weevil?
This is a bundle of cotton fiber, tightly compressed and secured with twine.
What is a bale?
True or False
Humans can eat part of the cotton plant.
TRUE. Cottonseed oil is used in many edible products AFTER it is cooked and prepared.
One bale of cotton can make 313,600 of these.
What are $100 bills?
Cotton was put in a cotton gin for cleaning to removed this.
What are seeds?
The ways people or goods travel
Transportation
This is the seed-bearing part of the cotton plant in which the cotton fibers are formed.
What is a boll?
These TWO parts of the cotton plant are used for livestock feed or poultry feed, fertilizer for lawns, gardens and flower beds, as well as fuel, and packing materials.
What are Meal and Hulls?
This product contains 150 yards of cotton.
What is a regulation baseball?
Did the invention of the cotton gin make the slavery problem BETTER -or- WORSE?
WORSE Once cotton was easier to clean, upcountry planters started more cotton plantations and more slaves were needed.
These two things can transport cotton to the market.
What are Waterways (or Canals &/or by Boat) & Railroads?
A bloom or a flower on a plant can be called this.
What is a blossom?
This most valuable by-product can be used to make cooking spray, salad dressing, soaps, cosmetics and in preparation of snack foods like chips, crackers and cookies.
What is Cottonseed oil -or- Oil?
In 1969, astronauts returning from the moon wear isolation suits made of this product (easy people, don't over think it).
What is COTTON?
They really did!
Did the invention of the cotton gin affect cotton production? (did it go UP -or- DOWN)
Production went UP.
More cotton was being produced because it was faster and easier to clean.
5 States located within the Cotton Belt.
TRUE or FALSE
Cotton is poisonous to eat for cattle.
Gossypol is a chemical found in the cotton seed. It protects the plant from insects because of its toxicity. When seeds are used for either oil or grinding into flour, this chemical needs to be removed to make it suitable for human consumption. Heat removes it.
Since cattle are ruminant animals (4 stomachs) they can digest it. So it's FALSE.
This country grows this valuable cotton crop in fiber and food, the most in the world.
What is China? (3 yr ave. 2010-2012 33 million bales)
The smallest fibers attached to the cotton seed are called linters. These finest types of cellulose are used for this product you may see at a doctor's office or hospital AFTER breaking a bone.
What is X-ray film?
Cotton is King means that cotton ran the economy. It was a huge money maker for farmers and plantation owners. It was especially good after the invention of these in 1849 for miners in California.
What are blue jeans?
In 1849 Levi Strass made denim jeans or 'levis' during the California Gold Rush.
(*Interesting Fact Today: Average American owns 7 pairs of blue jeans*)
This large business turns cleaned cotton into fabric.
What are Mills or Textile Mills?
Meal is the second most valuable by-product of this part of the cotton plant.
What is Cottonseed?
What is Texas? (3 yr ave. 2010-2012 5.5 million bales of 17.0 million in US)
The word "cotton" is an English version of the Arabic "qutun" or "kutun" a generic term meaning this.
(Our currency is made of this and not of paper.)
What is fancy fabric?