The invention relates to a scutcher, wherein a group of barbed nail rollers distributed in parallel are arranged on a rack, close to a material feed hole, in an upper chamber, a separating net bottom is arranged below the barbed nail rollers, the upper chamber is communicated with a lower chamber through an airlock valve, an upper rack roller, a lower rack roller, a cotton brushing roller, an impurity discharge auger, a cotton discharge passage and a cotton discharge auger are arranged in the lower chamber, a negative pressure chamber is arranged in an enclosure on the other side of the lower part of the upper chamber, the upper chamber is communicated with the upper end of the negative pressure chamber through the separating net bottom, the lower end of the negative pressure chamber is connected with an air suction end of a fan through an air suction bellow, the inlet of a three-way elbow is connected with an air blow end of the fan, an upper outlet of the three-way elbow is connected with one end of a flat air pipe, the other end of the flat air pipe is communicated with a lower inlet of a cotton blow pipe, and a cotton discharge hole is communicated with an upper inlet of the cotton blow pipe. The scutcher is reasonable in structural design, convenient to use, and good in cotton cleaning effect, and the unginned cotton after scotching can be fed into a cotton storage box without an additionally arranged fan.