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also made to determine on what conditions banks advanced money 

 on cotton warehouse receipts. 



In all of this work the purpose has been to draw a careful distinc- 

 tion between the companies that furnished a satisfactory service and 

 those that did not, special efforts being made to determine why 

 certain companies rendered efficient service while others failed. 

 Careful studies have been made of the different types of warehouses 

 now in use, especially those recognized as " standard " by the fire 

 insurance underwriters' associations. These classes of buildings 

 have been studied with reference to cost of construction compared 

 with storage capacity, insurance rates charged on cotton stored in 

 the different classes, and the adaptability and convenience of the 

 different types with reference to handling cotton. 



Questionnaires have been sent to all cotton mills asking for infor- 

 mation in regard to the storage capacity, insurance rates, class, and 

 construction of buildings used for storage, and the purpose for which 

 the storage house is used — whether public, private, or both. 



Many of the data gathered so far have been tabulated and pub- 

 lished with conclusions in Department Bulletin 216: Cotton Ware- 

 houses; Storage Facilities Now Available in the South; and in De- 

 partment Bulletin 277 : Cotton Warehouse Construction. 



MARKETING COTTON SEED AND ITS PRODUCTS. 



Studies and investigations under this project are conducted pri- 

 marily to determine the factors which influence or control the prices 

 paid for cotton seed and its products, the advantages to be secured 

 by producers through marketing cotton seed cooperatively or 

 through cooperative cotton-oil mills, and the uses to which the cot- 

 tonseed crop and its products are devoted. The work was begun in 

 October, 1914, and has been conducted by Mr. H. T. Poe, jr. 



The geographical location of all cottonseed-oil mills in the United 

 States has been determined, existing rules relating to the grading, 

 buying, and selling of cottonseed and its products have been com- 

 piled, compared, and studied with a view to working out a uniform 

 set of rules for grades and grading, and assistance was rendered one 

 of the State cottonseed crushers' associations in promulgating grad- 

 ing rules for buying and selling cotton seed. Copies of State laws 

 regarding the taxing, branding, guaranteeing, sampling, and inspec- 

 tion of cottonseed products as foodstuffs have been secured, and 

 recent State legislation relating to the cottonseed industry has been 

 collected. A preliminary study has been made of the containers 

 used in marketing cottonseed and in methods of handling, and new 

 and improved machinery and processes examined and studied. 



MOISTURE DETERMINATION AND ANALYSIS. 



Moisture determinations were secured through the cooperation of 

 the chemists of several cottonseed-oil mills on 3,623 carloads of 

 cotton seed marketed fi'om the crop year of 1914 in the States of 

 Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Over 12,000 com- 

 plete analyses of cotton seed grown during that season from points 

 in all parts of the cotton belt have been collected. These analyses 



