Technological And Economic Developments In Ginning And Marketing Of Mechanically Harvested Cotton PDF Download

Excerpt from Effects of Cotton Ginning Practices on Market Quality of Cotton: A Mississippi Delta Variety, 1958-59 The study involved M2 bales of cotton ginned from three consecutive har vestings of dpt-15 cotton at Robinsonville, Mississippi, of which 36 bales were mechanically harvested, and 6 bales were picked by hand. Ginning condi tions included: elaborate and moderate seed-cotton cleaning; drying to pro vide both high and low-moisture lint with each seed-cotton cleaning treat ment; and three conditions of lint cleaning for each level of moisture: No lint cleaning, one lint cleaner, and two lint cleaners. The mechanically har vested cotton provided 3 replications for each of 12 ginning conditions. The handpicked cotton provided three replications each for the two extreme ginning conditions that were used with mechanically-harvested cotton. Cotton from.the first harvest contained less moisture than the second and third lots of seed cotton, and, consequently, needed less heat in drying dur ing ginning. Drying conditions were varied to provide high and low-moisture lint during ginning. The high-moisture lint averaged percent, and the low-moisture lint averaged percent. Grade for both machine and hand-picked cotton was improved by additional lint cleaning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.