Abstract: Linter-bearing cottonseed covered with a coat of starch optionally containing one or more biologically related materials selected from vitamins, feed supplements, oils, fats, urea, rodent repellants, insect repellants, medications, anti-germination agents, and preservatives, and a method for preparing it is taught herein. Starch coated cottonseed is useful as an animal feed and as planting stock. The starch coating allows the cottonseed to be used in conventional feed handling and seed planting equipment.

Abstract: A forage harvester having a cutterhead housing, a rotary reel cutterhead, a recutter screen mounted adjacent the cutterhead periphery and a crop blower for generating an air suction in the outlet of the cutterhead housing is provided with a transverse baffle sheet disposed within the housing in spaced relation from the floor to define the upper side of an air duct separated from the operative region of the recutter screen and extending from beneath the cutterhead area to direct the inlet air across the floor of the cutterhead housing to the discharge mechanism.