White Flower Farm:Cotton and Hemp

Cotton is a producer of natural fibers for textiles manufacturing. Her sweet nectar attracts insects destructive pests as a great variety, weevil, bollworm, armyworms and spider mites. One of Witt called the fungus also destroys the root system of cotton plant.To determine the source of cotton is very difficult that can be said that the limited nature of humanity to their basic instincts to cover your body and for that use different types sheet of things to find the remarkable things, such as cotton. But at this stage scientists say that technological progress is almost 7000 years that fragments of cotton fiber were discovered and the idea began to produce a kind of clothes with her. Estimated that for 5000 years has been cultivated in India. China, Egypt, North and South has been used for much longer. European settlers grew their business as early in the Jamestown colony in 1607. Before 1861-1865 Cotton was the most important crop in the southern U.S. states. Slaves used to work every day picking cotton for their masters in the presence of the overseers, who used to be in the horses.England was a customer of the South's largest cotton. Given that cotton just as good as gold in New Orleans was the great port l9 century for the export of cotton. Cotton used to play bigger role in the barter trade between many countries. This plan worked until 1862 when the Union army occupied New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The forces raided from Morgan City to Alexandria. Vicksburg and Port Hudson fell, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River. As the Confederate troops retreated, they destroyed as much of the cotton crop as possible, to prevent this "gold" from falling into enemy hands.HempIt believes that no historian knows first people put to good use Hemp. However, when and where people discovered the Cannabis hemp, used for five of its benefits are that the fibers of hemp oil, seeds, seeds for food, medicine, and narcotic properties that there is use of hemp possessed.Cannabis the last ten thousand years. That makes it the oldest crop cultivation. It was cultivated in China since about 4000 BC in most historical documents mentioned hemp. It is mentioned in the Zend-Avesta, the sacred book as old as 600 BC the Chinese Emperor Chen-Nung, wrote about it 5000 years ago record tells us that in 1621 cannabis was also used to treat depression and in 1764 as skin.The for inflammation of the use of cannabis in Africa is also mentioned in its history, was used to cure dysentery and fever, many tribes in Africa, even in this age of advanced medicine and technology used hemp for the treatment of snakebites, the women used to smoke before giving birth to a baby. Around the seventeenth century peasants, farmers gather flowers from the hemp plant and to feed their livestock to protect animals from evil and believed that sickness.They has a magical power, and that tradition. Some Western physicians use hemp medicine also, WB O'Shaughnessy published in 1839 the benefits of cannabis for treating rabies, rheumatism, epilepsy, and tetanus. It was also reported to be useful when mixed with alcohol and taken orally is very effective, killer.It pain was used by Henry VIII to sea in England was grown on a quarter acre for every sixty acres of land plowing. The British began their cultivation in their colonies of Canada in 1606, Virginia in 1632 1611.and New England began its cultivation which was produced by the pilgrims who were taught by Native Americans people.It was a very production process Hemp tedious and difficult. So he went to the slaves to cultivate. The domestic cultivation of hemp was made after the American Civil War. Greatly affected its economy. But later it was the Hearst newspaper chain made the propaganda against it. Through the Hearst newspaper coined the phrase "Marijuana Madness" in relation to Mexico, African American, and jazz musicians, he said that the use of marijuana causes excessive sex and violence, and threatens the safety of white women and children. Following this campaign against hemp it was not long before the ban was enacted hemp.