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yes it was used for food
Someone will claim that Native Americans buried a fish with the seeds. This is an urban legend, and native Americans did NOT practice fertilization of crops. They did practice crop rotation, but farming was low-intensity subsistence farming. Sorry, but this is nothing but a "fish story".
When the Europeans came over to the native Americans they spread a disease call "smallpox" it was spreading vastly and killed 200,000 people. The doctors finally found a cure and it was ok. But also the first thing the europeans did whille their stole the native Americans land
Production went down around 90% using European farming systems. Native American systems used a Milpa type of planting system which produced around 30 million calories per acre, where European farming systems produced between 3 and 7.9 million calories per acre. A "Milpa" or "Milpas" farming system is a way to grow multiple crops in the same space to benefit each type of plant, this type of system cannot use machines.
cotton seeds are very small