Processing cotton cultivars with conventional gin machinery
1997
Anthony, W.S. | Calhoun, D.S.
Cleaning, drying, and ginning cotton cultivars on conventional ginning equipment produces commercially useful information for comparative purposes. Evaluation of numerous cultivars grown in Mississippi in two years on different soil types indicated substantial differences between the cultivars in terms of monetary returns to the farmer and fiber properties important to the textile industry. In 1994, gross monetary returns averaged $1,097.71 per hectare and ranged from about $957.92 to $1,258.19; classers' color was generally Middling grade but leaf ranged from 1.3 to 3.3; the number of neps averaged 289 and ranged from 209 to 381 per gram of lint; seed-coat fragments (SCFs) averaged 59.6 and ranged from 44 to 116 per 3 g of lint; and short fiber content (SFC) by weight averaged 8.0% and ranged from 5.4% to 11.2%. Similar results occurred in 1993, unfortunately, the "best" characteristics were not all present in the cultivars that yielded the highest monetary return. These results show the potential for improving cotton fiber quality parameters but care must be exercised to ensure that all growth conditions are considered.
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