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Exercise 2 
Object: To learn how cotton is ginned. 
Material: Notebook, pencil, and a cotton gin. 
Procedure: Secure permission from your parents to visit a 
cotton gin with your teacher. 
1. Give the name and location of the gin. 
2. What kind of gin do you have in your section? 
3. During what part of the year does the gin operate? 
4. How is the cotton weighed before it is ginned? 
5. How many pounds of seed cotton does it take to make a 
bale of lint cotton? 
6. How is the lint removed from the seed? 
7. Tell how the lint is baled. 
8. How is the bale covered and tied? 
9. How many ties are placed on one bale? 
10. How are the bales of cotton marked at the gin? 
11. Explain the cost charged for ginning. 
12. Where does the farmer get the seed frcm his cotton after 
ginning ? 
WORDS TO BE LEARNED 
Calcium Arsenate. A poisonous chemical used for killing boll- 
weevil. 
“Flat-breaking .” Plowing the land so the surface will remain 
flat. 
Fungous. The objective of the noun fungi. A parasitic plant, 
such as mold and mildew. 
Lint. Fluff or cotton fibers that are removed from the cotton¬ 
seed at the gin. 
Staple. The general fiber of wool or cotton. 
Textile. Pertaining to weaving or woven fabric. 
REFERENCES 
“The Boll-weevil Problem,” Farmers’ Bui. 848. 
“Losses from Selling Cotton in the Seed,” Farmers’ Bui. 775. 
“Cotton-ginning Information for Farmers,” Farmers’ Bui. 764. 
“How Insects Affect the Cotton Crop and Means of Combating 
Them,” Farmers’ Bui. 890. 
BOOKS 
“Productive Farm Crops,” Montgomery-Lippincott Company. 
