1.   And since little rain has fallen, many farmers have been forced to use their last remaining water allotments to irrigate the young cotton plants this month.

2.   Its weapon is a chemical called malathion, which must be sprayed on every cotton plant, on every cotton field, in a given cotton region.

3.   Others showed pictures of cowboys, cotton plants, longhorns and oil wells.

4.   Peat fiber, from the roots and stems of bog cotton plants, contains microbes that help to clean wastewater.

5.   Rabbit fur from a cotton plant.

6.   She loved to step on tender cotton plants and nip the top out of young corn stalks.

7.   The company received Environmental Protection Agency approval this week to sell technology that makes cotton plants repel insects.

8.   The former painter in a cotton manufacturing plant turned his love for cars into a hugely profitable venture.

9.   The seed contains a gene developed by St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. that causes cotton plants to resist several major pests.

10.   The whitefly attacks cotton plants by defecating among the soft, white fibers of the cotton flower.