1. The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt. 2. These farm-worker children weed cotton fields, pick lettuce and cantaloupe and climb rickety ladders in cherry and apple orchards. 3. We were five miles out of Sabinal in the cotton fields and grape vineyards. 4. And Pop was in shape, a tall, balding man who knew what a cotton field was like. 5. As it worked its way slowly across the region, ravaging cotton fields and ruining cotton farmers, it radically changed the economy. 6. As much as an inch of rain has already fallen on parched Texas cotton fields this week from Tropical Storm Dean. 7. As a young man he worked in cotton fields in Texas until his family, who were sharecroppers, migrated to California to pick fruit. 8. Barnes appreciates the opportunities he has, appreciates how far he has come from those days in the cotton fields. 9. Black Americans made spectacular progress beginning in the decades after slavery, moving from cotton fields to the boardroom in just over a century. 10. A cut maize field and cut cotton field lay side by side. |