Excerpt from Effect of Seed-Cotton Moisture Level at Harvest on Ginned Lint Seed-cotton moisture level at harvest affects processing performance, fiber and seed quality, and monetary returns to the producer. Cottons harvested at different moisture levels were studied over three seasons to determine the ex tent of these effects. All cottons were harvested with a spindle pick er at moisture levels selected to approximate and percent. Actual moisture averaged and percent, with a range of percent. In the first season, all lots were processed through the conditioning system with ambient air. In the two following seasons, half the lots were processed with ambient air and half with air heated as necessary to reduce feeder-apron moisture to 6 - 8 percent. Half the lots got one stage and half got two stages of saw-cylinder 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.