Chapter 8, paragraph starting "At least her strawberries had done well this year"
last word is boll, as in boll weevil
Great story
no, as in cotton bolls
FYI
The boll is the rounded mature fruit of the cotton plant. It is made up of separate compartments which are called locks, in which cotton seeds and lint grow. These open at harvest time. An average boll will contain nearly 500,000 cotton fibers.
Fruits of cotton are called cotton bolls. These fruits are green and immature and it contains a segmented pod. Cotton bolls are considered as fruits because they have approximately 32 immature seeds.
Each cotton boll usually contains 27-45 seeds, and attached to each seed is between 10,000 – 20,000 tiny fibres about 28mm in length. Cotton fibre is made from cellulose, has a slim coating of wax and is thin and hollow like a straw.
A Cotton BOLL is the dense roundish, fur clumps which grow on the stem of the cotton plants. Simply it's the raw form of cotton.
A Cotton BALL is fine processed cotton that has been cleaned and formed into a spherical shape for household use.
How many cotton balls does it take to make a shirt?
Ginning percent of cotton is around 35% so you get 165 odd grams of ginned cotton and rest is cotton seed. The T shirt weighs around 150 grams. Considering wastage you need around 125 cotton bolls for making a T shirt.
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