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Moisture Restoration for Seed Cotton, Two Approaches

R.K. Byler

ABSTRACT

Research results over the years have shown that fiber quality is improved when lint moisture content at the gin stand is in the range 6 to 7 percent wet basis compared to lower levels. Under many conditions lint is drier than that when it arrives at the gin. This research added moisture to seed cotton in two ways before it was ginned. Then the fiber properties were examined by AFIS testing after ginning. The fiber length properties were highly correlated with the lint moisture content behind the gin stand and were less significantly or not significantly correlated with the method of attaining the lint moisture content. The other AFIS fiber properties related to trash, maturity, and neps were not significantly affected by the method of attaining the lint moisture level and nearly all of the other AFIS properties were not significantly affected by the moisture level of the fiber.





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Document last modified April 16, 2003