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Article: Cotton gin serves educational, research purposes. (Update).
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Researchers and students from many educational levels are gaining information at Mississippi State University (MSU) from a fully functional cotton mini-gin, the only operational gin on a college campus.
ASAE member Eugene Columbus, senior research associate with MSU's Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, says the 3-year-old gin has been useful in both teaching students and in researching cotton ginning by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) farms. The mini-gin has the ability to accommodate producers' and industry's needs by processing cotton samples too small for a commercial cotton gin to process.
"The ...