Word: cottoning
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...hand, critics are pointing out the often wasteful uses of water employed by Western farmers: the practice of irrigating fields by flooding them, thus allowing much of the water to run off the fields or bake off in the heat; the production of "thirsty" crops like rice and cotton in areas only inches of water away from being desert...
...stepped out of the car, a beautiful young woman welcomed us with a broad smile and handshake. Behind her stood a man about 5 ft. 7 in., wearing a faded pink-striped cotton shirt and dark pants. Gilberto Rodriguez's appearance has changed dramatically since the last pictures of him were taken five years ago. His curly jet-black hair has turned a distnguished salt-and- pepper and covers the tops of his ears. He sports a closely cropped < mustache and has gained at least 30 lbs. But the glistening brown eyes were unmistakably those of the "Chess Player...
...neglected art of yarn spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways of the world and propels her into the arms of a simpler, safer and younger...
...dust as they stirred the baking fields. Ed Scott of Minter City was up at 5 a.m. to tend his eight catfish ponds. If all goes well, the black entrepreneur this year will sell nearly half a million pounds of catfish, the Delta's second biggest crop after cotton. In Arcola, Billy Percy was in a battered pickup as crop dusters in their yellow Air Tractors swooped around him, spraying rice and cotton against unrelenting weevils and thrips. As he watched he talked about two blacks being taken in as members of the Greenville Country Club in the past...
...fairly effective control method for a limited area is a product called Daminex, which is a tube filled with pesticide-soaked cotton. Mice take the cotton to build nests, and the pesticide kills ticks. On Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, scientists are planning to release large numbers of a tiny wasp called Hunterellus hookeri. Success is uncertain. The wasps do kill some tick nymphs, but may in fact need a large and healthy tick population to maintain their own numbers. Other drastic preventives that householders mutter about while untaping their trousers -- region-wide burning of fields, pesticide spraying or slaughter...