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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Gins, therefore, will be able to produce a longer, higher quality fiber, reduce cotton dust emissions, and save in energy costs.
Roller gins, therefore, continue to be used for ginning Pima cotton to protect its extra-long staple or length, a desirable quality that increases the value of the cotton fiber.
This reduction is based on data that indicates cotton arrivals at gins lags about 13 percent behind last year's level through March 15.
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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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Finding a nice restaurant among the cotton gins might seem as hard as tracking down the Soggy Bottom Boys, but actor Morgan Freeman recently opened the surprisingly chic Madidi in downtown Clarksdale.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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If the seed cotton requires additional drying and cleaning, gins will often run it through another drier and another cylinder cleaner and stick machine.
This system is designed to help gins limit the adverse effects the serrated saws in saw-lint cleaners have on the cotton fiber.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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In dry ginning conditions when the seed cotton is also dry, saw gins can do a lot of damage to fiber properties, even when they turn off the heat and reduce ginning rate.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Equipment specializes in the design and installation of new cotton gins worldwide.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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A patch of cotton is grown there now next to the 16-foot drive wheel for a 500 horsepower engine that once pulled 65 gins in the world's largest cotton processing plant.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Listen, you can hear stories Grandpa told of when he was a blacksmith on the cotton gins and of the Indians who taught him how to read the weather signs.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Cotton production in north and west Jefferson County also ended when the effects of that depression trickled on down in 1931-1933, and all the cotton gins moved away once more.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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It was a bustling town known for commerce and gracious living and the site of a factory manufacturing cotton gins.
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