| Sterile flowers soon fall off the plant without forming the bolls that are the source of cotton textile fibers. |
| Day after day, with the others, Luke picks the cotton bolls under the broiling sun. |
| By maturity, the mutant seeds had only produced a few short fibres and the seeds were visible from the mature cotton bolls. |
| Fingers or brushes strip plant parts and cotton bolls from the plant, thus picking up excess trash. |
| Additional labor allows the initiation of cotton harvest to begin 2 weeks later, which leads to more open bolls. |
| Another redhead came and both of them widened their eyes in unison, looking more and more like two bolls of cotton, when they saw me. |
