describe the function of the cotton gin
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This is a cotton gin that gins short staple Stripper cotton. Long staple cotton is often picked by pulling the locks from the boll. It is much cleaner and worth more money and it often ginned in a roller gin.
I farmed cotton most of my life and spent some time working in a cotton gin. Sorry if this runs on a bit but I just started at one end of the cotton gin and followed though to the other. With the USDA papers it should give you a good idea how short staple cotton is ginned. I also add some of the problems with large crop such as this years and fire. The
A cotton gin takes seed cotton (cotton harvested from the field) drys it, cleans the leaves, sticks and most of the trash out of it then separate the cotton from the Boll if it was stripped. Next it goes to the gin stand where the cotton and cotton seed are separated with the seed being sent out to the seed hopper and the cotton usually going to the lint cleaner on the way to press that compress the lint into bales that have 480 pounds more or less of cotton in them. Then they are wrapped and tagged with the producers ID and and the gin name and bale number. Next 2 samples weighing one pound each are taken from than wrapped with a section of the ID tag to go to the USDA grading house.
Next the bale is set in the area where it sets for at least 48 hours to see if it has any fire in it before being trucked to cotton compress where it goes though another fire quarantine dictated by insurance companies to try to keep one fire bale from burning up over 30,000 bales of cotton. Insurance rules try to limit the number of bales placed so they can bun up but in a year like this one on the High Plains of Texas with the one of largest crop in history a lot of cotton stacks up somewhere.
With all that cotton stacked up in one places in February and March a cold front blows in from the West and the winds from the South start blow into low pressure area and swing to the West before coming out of the North- North-West. The winds may gust to 100 mile per hour at Lubbock Texas fanning any spark left in a cotton bale into flame and spreading a wall of flame from one bale to the next until it burn off everything but the concrete fire walls. The only thing worse is Gin yard with too much cotton on the Southwest side of town. The 65 mph gusts of wind and the wind from the fire picked up burning wads of cotton, tossed them in the air falling on roofs all over Altus Oklahoma. Every fire department for 60 miles around sent at least one truck to wander around putting out burning cotton balls. I first noticed 40 miles downwind as I smelled burning cotton as got on the Red River Bridge going North on US 183 between Davidson Oklahoma and Oklaunion Texas.
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