lint slide 19 on the way to the bale press 17 resulting in a finished bale b that has had the percent of moisture set by gin management via a moisture to add dial of the manual desired moisture control means 61 added to the bale b the difference in the manual and automatic modes or models is that the manual model puts in a preset fixed amount of moisture that takes into consideration the ginning rate and moisture to add dial setting but not the moisture content before adding moisture to the lint cotton the automatic model makes it calculations based on the ginning rate the lint cotton moisture content prior to adding moisture and the final percent moisture dial setting in determining how much moisture to add and the moisture that is being added is recalculated every half second as thus constructed and used the present invention can automatically restore moisture to the cotton lint 13 during the ginning process using both near infrared and radio frequency sensors to deliver a very accurate moisture regardless of the incoming moisture or the rate of ginning advantages of the present invention include the provision and use of incoming lint or prior bale moisture readout final bale moisture readout to verify that.