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When I was a child, when I planted wheat in the autumn, every family would deliberately leave one or two plots of land in their own world to grow cotton. Each piece of land planted with cotton will be planted with wheat at a distance of 0.8m~1m apart, and the empty land in the middle will be reserved for planting cotton in the next spring.
Cotton seeds
In the spring, each household will soak the reserved cotton seeds for two days in advance to facilitate better germination of cotton. The family then went to the field with hoes and cotton seeds and mulch film to sow cotton.
Sown cotton fields
In the summer, when the cotton fields are busiest, every family, adults and children will go to the cotton fields to remove excess branches of cotton, catch insects on the cotton, and drive tractors to the fields to water the fields during the drought.
Cotton fields
In the fall, every family, adults and children will pull a rack cart with baskets on it, and the family will go out to the field to pick cotton, pick it and put it in the basket and pull it home, light a kerosene lamp at night to pull cotton, and after pulling, put the cotton on the dustpan to dry until the cotton is completely dry.
Ripe cotton.
After the cotton dries, you have to find a embossing machine to separate the cotton from the cotton seeds, and then sell the cotton to the cotton merchants or keep the quilt core or use it to make cotton shoes and cotton jackets.
With the development of the times, the progress of industrialization. People no longer need to eat cottonseed oil, nor do they need to make cotton shoes, cotton jackets or even quilt cores, these products have been replaced by silk cotton, resulting in a decline in cotton prices; In addition, growing cotton is too tiring, so people no longer grow cotton, and plant more trouble-free peanuts, corn and other crops.