Cotton pickin time

Trying to stay ahead of the cotton pickers, cutting cotton branches, picking bolls and handpicking lint. They are running fast and a stalk mower is behind the pickers, so when it's picked it's mowed, it's gone.  The hand picked cotton is so much cleaner than the machine picked, machines pick leaves that crumble and cannot be removed. The handpicked cotton will be hand ginned, then handspun, then hand knitted. Sounds like a labor of love. But the end results are a world apart.