The cotton plant is substantially experience for develop indulgent , washable fibre , which outsells all others – including man - made roughage – in the United States . But other parts of the industrial plant are also used for various intent . According to CottonInc.com , cotton has been cultivate for about 7,000 years , and evidence advise it survive in Egypt as far back as 12,000 B.C. In the United States , the cotton plant knock spans 17 southerly states from Virginia to California , where granger harvest as much utilisation out of plants as they can .

Fiber

Cotton fiber , considered the yield , spring up as low tuft , or bolls , on the end of stems . It is usually mechanically glean and used to make a wide variety of merchandise , such as article of clothing , blankets , hats , furniture covering , sheets , skid string , feminine products , money , wallpaper , canvass , ardour hose , windowpane shade and Book . Its strength and relatively cheap growth helps keep it popular , although product costs depart according to make name and styling .

Linters

Linters , the short , silky copper that hang to each seed after ginning , leave cellulose for making plastics , explosives and other products such as high - quality paper and poster board and insulating material ; and bat for mattress padding , furniture and automobile shock absorber . Cellulose is also used to make cellophane and rayon . Until the 1930s , it was used to make photographs and movie films . Converting cellulose into a biofuel is being explore . Linters have also been refined for usance in aesculapian and ornamental product .

Seeds

harmonise to the National Cotton Council of America , seeds comprise about 2/3 of the harvested harvest . The sticky come , contained within the white fiber , are educe and demolish to differentiate them into oil color , meal and hulls . Cottonseed petroleum is used in bite foods such as cookies and chips . The oil colour is also used in shortening , cook oil colour and salad dressing , and is being integrate more ofttimes as companies move aside from product containing trans fats . The meal and Kingston-upon Hull are used as fertilizer ; and as a high - protein add-on in livestock , poultry and fish provender .

Stalks and Leaves

After the cotton plant is pluck , the stalk and leaves of cotton fiber plant are plowed under to enrich the ground . Cotton plant are notorious for depleting the grease of nutrient , which is why some farmers till plants back into the land .

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