"cotton" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mechanization could efficiently handle short-staple cotton, which could be grown in more places than the long-staple cotton of the Low Country.
- During the nineteenth century, the districts and counties were developed chiefly as cotton plantations for short-staple cotton.
- This development followed the invention of the cotton gin in the late eighteenth century, which made the processing of short-staple cotton profitable.
- This was easier to process by hand than short-staple cotton.
- In the Upcountry's soil, only short-staple cotton could be cultivated.
- This made possible the expansion of cultivation of short-staple cotton, which grew more successfully in such upland areas.
- The cotton gin allowed the processing of short-staple cotton, which thrived in the upland areas.
- Inland, only short-staple cotton could be grown but it was full of seeds and very hard to process into fiber.
- The invention of the cotton gin in the late 1790s for the first time made short-staple cotton usable.
- Originally settled by yeomen farmers, in the nineteenth century numerous plantations were established for the cultivation of short-staple cotton.
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