Title: A Natural in the Natural State
1A Natural in the Natural State
White Gold
Cotton
2Plantation Agriculture Museum Scott, Arkansas
3Landform Map
4Field Preparation and Planting
5Breaking Soil and Building Seed Beds
6Breaking Plow
7early middlebusters
early planter
8Breaking the Ground
9A New Kind of Farm Worker
10A Tractor Applies Chemicals to Beds of Freshly
Planted Cotton
11Middlebuster
12Cultivation
13Cultivator
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15Modern Day Cultivator
16A Crop-Duster Applying Pesticide to Cotton
Late 1930s
17Chopping and Hoeing
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20Picking
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22Field of Cotton Ready to be Picked
White Gold
23Arkansas Cotton
24Picking and Carrying Cotton
25Cotton Sack
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27Cotton Scales
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29Ginning
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32Cotton Pen
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35Cotton Gin Patent
36Steam-Powered Traction Engines
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38Steam-Traction Engine
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40Modern Day Tractor
41Waiting to Dump Cotton
42Cotton Being Dumped by Mechanical Pickers
43King Cotton
44Trailer at the Wait
45The Compress Process
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47Stacking Cotton
48Hand Spindle
Spinner
49Writing Prompt
Write an essay about how cotton production has
changed. Before you begin to write, think about
what you have read about cotton production. Think
about what you have learned from the PowerPoint
and any research you have done. Now write an
essay about how cotton production has changed. Be
sure to give enough detail so that the person
reading your paper will understand.
50Special Thanks to
Bridge Grant Committee Mike Polston History
Club Shelly Tucker