1.   In Yazoo County and across the Mississippi Delta, farmers are busy harvesting their cotton.

2.   That cotton will be harvested late this year, when supplies will be a lot more plentiful than now.

3.   Zhang said the cotton estimate may be more accurate than grain figures since cotton is harvested only once a year.

4.   He built his two-room clay home and harvested cotton, corn and wheat, even as the civil war brought fighting to the steep slopes around him.