Cotton was grown in 76-cm spacings and harvested at three locations in 1981. An experimental one row spindle picker was compared to a four row brush stripper without cleaner for fiber quality analysis. Seed cotton was baled and shipped to the USDA Ginning Laboratory in mesilla Park for controlled ginning and fiber was forwarded to Texas Tech University, the USDA Fiber Laboratory (Clemson, S.C.), and the USDA Spinning Laboratory (Clemson, S.C.) for quality analysis.