Information om | Engelska ordet BOLL

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• Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
• More lasting trouble came in 1914 with the arrival of the boll weevil, which became very destructive to the cotton harvest from 1915 on.
• It flew a Huff-Daland Duster, the first true crop duster, designed to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops.
• Mechanization of agriculture and the blight of the boll weevil both reduced the need for farm workers; they left the area and often the state.
• Like other areas of the rural South, workers in Randolph County lost jobs due to mechanization, invasion of the boll weevil, and the decline in agriculture.
• It was subject to related vagaries of weather, financial markets, and the devastation of the invasive boll weevil in the early 20th century, which destroyed cotton crops across the South.
• The 1930s brought the Great Depression and boll weevil to Ashland that destroyed the cotton industry.
• The city erected the statue because the destruction of the cotton crop by the boll weevil had led to agricultural diversity, starting with peanuts and more prosperity than had ever come from cotton alone.
• Prior to World War II, Boaz hosted a primarily cotton-based economy, only diversifying to livestock and poultry with the pressures of boll weevil infestations and the Great Depression.
• Mooresville thrived as a cotton farming hub until the early 20th century, when the boll weevil infestation wrecked the cotton economy.
• During the early part of the 20th century, the boll weevil invaded the South, destroying cotton crops across the most productive counties.
• The East Coast cotton supply had been devastated by the boll weevil, and the African supply had been greatly reduced by World War I attacks from German U-boats.
• The boll weevil ended cotton farming before World War I, and the population shrank to a few hundred people, primarily farmers, ranchers and foresters.
• An economic shift occurred during the 1920s after the devastation of the cotton crop by the boll weevil.
• By the early 1920s, however, the boll weevil infestation led to successive cotton crop failures, causing economic collapse and population loss.
• It was based on products and processes developed by the Agriculture Experimental Station to dust crops from airplanes in order to combat the devastating effects that the boll weevil had on cotton crops.
• As part of a large-scale conversion of arable land away from cotton (due to the mass-destruction from the cotton boll weevil) and toward sweet potatoes in the late 19th century, the city gave itself the nickname "Sweet Potato Capital of the Nation" at the turn of the 20th century.
• Cotton production suffered in Mississippi during the infestation of the boll weevil in the early 20th century; however, for many years the bridge over the Yazoo displayed the sign "World's Largest Inland Long Staple Cotton Market".
• The bottom saltire contains the state military crest, which consists of a cotton plant with full bursting boll.
• The boll weevil infestation of the cotton fields of the South in the late 1910s reduced the demand for sharecroppers.

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