At the age of eight, she worked as a cotton-picker near Chegutu.

"Next cotton-picker says some embassy Johnny can cool me gets worse'n that."

If that is the case, the world bids farewell to the most talented cotton-picker on the planet.

Sighing like an old Negro cotton-picker, I reclined on the bed and smoked a cigarette.

Mister Cotton-Picker" and "Cherokee Boogie" (his biggest hit, in 1951) directly foreshadowed the style adopted by Haley and later rock'n'rollers.

There were a lot of valleys there: there were Cotton-Picker Valley and Pepper-Belly Valley, Hound Dog, and Horse Collar, and Dog-Dirt Draw.

Had an efficient mechanical cotton-picker and weed-killer, like those available today, been invented in 1850, the institution of slavery would have been uneconomic, and an entirely different cultural pattern would have grown up in the South.

His first job was at the age of 10 as a cotton picker.

He worked as a cotton picker until his family moved to California to pick fruit.

His mother, a migrant cotton picker, was the first in her family to put herself through college.

The catalyst for the second was the automatic cotton picker.

He started his new life as a cotton picker.

"Well, this cotton picker kept traveling" for a home run.

His hears 11 trucks of cotton pickers arriving from further south.

His mother worked as a maid and his father was a cotton picker.

The money in everyone's pockets is dictated by how much the cotton pickers collect.

This year, we don't have a tractor or a new cotton picker to sell.

Why, you dirty rotten lying cotton picker you're just like Dallas.

Stubblefield was employed in his youth as a cotton picker.

Rust was intrigued with the challenge of building a mechanical cotton picker.

Modern machines such as the cotton picker have superseded manual cultivation.

The result was a work like "The Cotton Pickers."

THE mechanical cotton pickers do not pick them clean, like human hands used to do.

In the 1940s the mechanized cotton picker was introduced.

His concerns were the poor and downtrodden, as seen in "Cotton Picker" (1940).

When mechanized cotton pickers took over in the 1950's, people began disappearing, and so did Randolph.

On one of them the mechanical cotton picker was field-tested for years until perfected and demonstrated to thousands in 1944.

Doffers are also used in cotton pickers and other machinery that handle fiber.

Her parents worked as cotton pickers.

John Macwhite claimed to have addressed a meeting of 2,500 cotton pickers during this period.

That same year, Case released the company's first cotton picker, which is currently preserved by the Smithsonian society.

"Most of the cotton pickers said that they don't want to pick cotton anymore.