Bolls are the green, protective coverings that grow over the round, fluffy clumps on a cotton plant. This fruit part of the plant is where cotton grows and where cotton seeds and fibers can be ...

“Girlie, that’s a green cotton boll. ... I hadn’t picked any green bolls; but plenty of green leaves, and dead ones, too, had been sucked into my sack.

LUBBOCK, Texas — For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural … ...

Sanford poured $6,000 into creating the Cotton Bowl Classic, a play on the term "cotton boll." The boll is the green, protective coverings that grow over the round, fluffy clumps on a cotton plant.

It’s harvest time, and cotton fields in southeastern Virginia are completing the seasonal transition from green, to white to picked clean. Isle of Wight County farmer Cecil R. Byrum harvested ...

MONTMORENCI — Annie’s Inn, one of Aiken County’s oldest homes, is dressed in white and green throughout the year, and yellow joins the color scheme in a big way during Flags and cotton bolls ...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. - When Charles Niemann started farming in 1960, he knew the threat of the cotton boll weevil made his livelihood risky. He treated his fields in South Texas with pesticide every few ...

Some years, Eddie Green starts harvesting his cotton in late August or early September. As of Thursday, the Dooly County farmer had yet to start gathering any bolls from his 320 acres of cotton ...

The Cotton Boll is known for breakfast and lunch staples, attracting people from all over the ArkLaTex. If you’re approaching the diner from the south, you can take Southern Avenue to access the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — Shreveport’s iconic The Cotton Boll Grill is up for sale. The popular eatery on Fairfield Avenue has been part of the city’s restaurant scene for nearly 100 years. It’s best ...