Excerpt from Blending of Machine-Stripped Cotton: Preliminary Feasibility Studies The blending of seed cotton (unginned cotton), however, is not a common practice in this country, although it is widely used in other parts of the world. As with lint cotton, there are advantages to blend ing seed cotton. The primary advantage is an improvement in uni formity of fiber properties within a bale and among bales of similar cotton. It is well documented that considerable variation in fiber properties exists among layers in a domestic bale of cotton.4 This variation stems from uneven growth patterns in the field. Although some blending occurs in conventional harvesting and ginning proc esses, the extent of blending is not sufficient to level out the varia tions in fiber properties from layer to layer in a bale. 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.