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Handling
Cotton Planting-Seed
at
COTTON GINS
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
CONTENTS
Storage
Cooling and airing
Delinting and treating
Mechanical delinting machines
Treating seed with mercurial dusts…
Power requirements
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Page
Washinston, D. C.
April 1957
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HANDLING
COTTON PLANTING-SEED at
COTTON GINS
By GERALD N. FRANKS, agricultural engineer. Agricultural Engineering Research
Division, Agricultural Research Service/ and J. C. OGLESBEE, JR., cotton ginning specialist. Federal Extension Service
Cotton planting-seed usually is delinted and treated in the storage period between the time of ginning and the next planting season.
During this period, ownership of the planting-seed remains with the producer.
About 350,000 tons of cotton planting-seed are required annually in the United States, in addition to emergency replanting demands.
Both large and small producing communities are frequently in need of information on the best handling methods.
This publication describes methods of handling cotton planting-seed
(including storage, bulk cooling, grading, cleaning, delinting, and treating) that are gradually coming into use at …