No experience with TX, AZ or CA cotton, but in the Mid-South, (hand)picking typically started the first week of Sept. It was indeed hot for a couple of weeks, then cooler and downright cold before finishing up, usually by pulling, i.e., gathering the whole boll, rather than by picking, i.e., just gathering the lint w/seed from out of the boll. A full-sized sack was 9 ft, "though other sizes could be had. It"s nothing like gathering okra; there"s nothing prickly about it, except for the occasional stab of the opened boll under your nail or cuticle. The sack had a strap thru which you placed your head and one arm. Most folks would "weigh up", when the sack got uncomfortably heavy to drag, 50-80 lbs. Others took pride in getting as many pounds as possible into it. There was an old popular song, "In them old cotton fields back home"; some singers would sing, "when them cotton BALLS get rotten", it was obvious they"d never been closer to cotton a cotton field than the shirt on their back.
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