A vital need for the cotton fiber quality enhancement program at the University of Georgia is a micro gin facility. Current cotton ginning equipment consists of a 10-saw table-top gin. This ginning equipment does not have drying, pre-cleaning or lint cleaning capabilities. It is well documented that ginning cotton will impact fiber quality and that different ginning equipment and ginning sequences will impact fiber quality differently. The 10-saw gin currently in use by University of Georgia scientists does not produce fiber qualities that are consistent with those of commercial gin plants. Thus, applicable conclusions from both basic and applied research programs can not be drawn with the current cotton ginning equipment. Therefore, the University of Georgia erected a micro gin that contains all of the same equipment found in a commercial gin plant, only more narrow (i.e. one foot wide as opposed to 8 feet wide) to facilitate ginning of small samples obtained from research plots.