Addresses the key cotton ginning issues concerned with facilities, machinery, cleaning, ginning, drying, packaging, and waste collection and disposal as well as ancillary issues concerned with pollution, management, economics, energy, insurance, safety, cotton classification, and textile machinery. Appendices: duties of gin personnel, portable moisture meters and pink bollworm control in gins. Glossary and index. Photos, charts, tables and graphs.

Addresses the key cotton ginning issues concerned with facilities, machinery, cleaning, ginning, drying, packaging, and waste collection and disposal as well as ancillary issues concerned with pollution, management, economics, energy, insurance, safety, cotton classification, and textile machinery. Appendices: duties of gin personnel, portable moisture meters and pink bollworm control in gins. Glossary and index. Photos, charts, tables and graphs.

Development of the cotton gin; cotton production, harvesting,and storage; management and economies; gin facilities; the ginning process; materials handling; a comprehensive gin maintenance program;energy utilization and conservation in cotton gins;ginning recommedations;roller ginning; gin safety; the classification of cotton; textile industry needs; duties of gin personnel; portable moisture meters; pink bollworm control in gins.