At present, most of the cotton produced in various parts of the world is ginned by machinery, though in India and China foot gins and other primitive types are still employed.
When the cotton is to be ginned it is brought by rakes along the floor to an open sort of hopper or trunk, and from here conveyed to the gins below by travelling lattices.
Saw gins are not adapted to long-stapled cottons, such as Sea Island and Egyptian, which are generally ginned by machines of the Macarthy type.
These pickers go carefully over the field, usually just before the second picking, and gather ripe cotton from the best plants only; this selected seed cotton isginned separately, and the seed used for sowing the next year's crop.
The crop is picked, ginned and baled in the usual way, the Macarthy style action roller gins being almost exclusively employed.
They continue to clean great quantities of cotton with Lyon's Gin and sell it advantageously while the Patent ginned cotton is run down as good for nothing," writes Miller to Whitney in September, 1797.
At the other end of the house, and immediately under the room containing ginned cotton, is the press.
In such cases, during wet weather, when the hands cannot pick cotton, the ablest of them are kept baling the cotton which has been ginned since the last rain, or within the last eight or ten days.
The space or room above is divided into two apartments; one for the stand and seed cotton, and the other for ginned cotton; the latter of which will contain cotton for twenty or thirty bales.
When it is ginnedyou can certainly borrow five cents a pound on it.
It did not explain whether Mr. Jenkins raised cotton, bought it, sold it, ginned it, or merely thought about it.
It requires about three pounds of cotton with the seed in it, as picked, to produce one pound of ginned or lint cotton.
This ginned cotton was then cleaned by a pinjari who charged at the rate of one anna per pound and earned about 8 as.
After it was thus cleaned, it was ginned with a hand-gin which gave work to some women who ginned, at the rate of one anna per 10 lbs.
I ginned just five pounds of cotton and had thirteen pounds of seed left, being over a peck, for it weighs forty-four pounds to the bushel.
As a sample of the change of feeling in regard to working on cotton, I will relate how I got the cotton ginned on this and the various other plantations in this neighborhood.
I have some men who gin fifty pounds a day and earn their dollar, while they never ginned more than thirty pounds for their master.
He is going to have the cotton ginned here, not at New York.
Footnote 191: The cotton when ginned should have weighed between one third and one quarter as much as it weighed before ginning.
Mr. Wells had his cotton about half ginned when there came a posse of men from the First South Carolina Regiment, without a white officer, to hunt after deserters on his plantation.
They seem somewhat discouraged at the prospect of having to wait so long for their money; but the advance paid them on shipping the cotton (a dollar a pound of ginned cotton) will be a great help to those who have done well.
Two of the thieves at Coffin's Point were caught with ginned cotton in their houses, Peter Brown and William White.
The laborers have collected the pieces of the gins which they destroyed on the flight of their masters, the ginning being obnoxious work, repaired them, and ginned the cotton on the promise of wages.
The cotton-crop produced will not exceed sixty-five thousand pounds of ginned cotton.
Long ago in India and other countries, cotton was ginned by hand.
To-day cotton is all ginned by machinery; and so great quantities can be separated in a day.
As it was ginned the lint would go into the lint room, and the seed would drop at the feeder's feet.
Instead of ginning two or three bales of cotton a day, as at Pontotoc, they ginned six to seven bales here.
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