This study evaluates cottonseed damage that occurs during the seed cotton cleaning process and lint seed separation process at the gin stand. The study consisted of 500-pound replicated lots of two cotton varieties ginned at ginning rates of 4.1 and 6.1 bales per hour on a modern high capacity gin stand. For the two varieties tested, variety A had 12.1 percent seed damage after seed cotton cleaning, whereas variety B has only 2.4 percent seed damage. Seed damage due to the gin stand was not significantly different for ginning rates or varieties and averaged 17.1 and 17.9 percent for varieties A and B, respectively.