Sometime in August of this year, there was a large quantity of yellow unpicked cotton lying in the gin house.

Sometime in August of this year, there was a large quantity of yellow unpicked cotton lying in the gin house.

See, I have unpicked this old cap for a little bit of French edging at the back."

Lucien Minor, for example, wrote when traveling through the plantations of northern Alabama, near Huntsville, in December, 1823: "These fields are still white with cotton, which frequently remains unpicked until March or April, when the ground is wanted to plant the next crop."