A professional who weighs incoming cotton, computes ginning charges, and records production in cotton ginning establishment. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs truck or trailer loaded with cotton and records gross, tare, and net weights.
• Computes and records quantity of cotton ginned and baled, and records weight of cottonseed removed from cotton.
• Questions cotton owners to obtain baling and ginning instructions and records instructions on bale tags.
• Computes and records ginning charges, using rate chart and adding machine.
• May prepare payrolls and records of payments to growers and quantity of seed cotton received.
• May prepare cotton-classing samples and mail samples and ginning figures of individual growers to U.S. Department of Agriculture.