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From: The Kiplinger Agriculture Letter | Date: April 19, 2002 | Copyright information

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Fuel pellets made from cotton gin trash. Add cottonseed oil and a gelatinized starch solution to a large quantity of stems, leaves and burrs, compress in a pellet maker, the same as with wood biomass. These pellets burn hotter than standard wood pellets or firewood.

Cotton gin trash can also be made into livestock feed. More on this at www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/apr02/cotton0402.htm.

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