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information obtained in replying to special requests for snch in- 

 formation from shippers and dealers throughout the country. 



CLEANING COTTONSEED FOR PLANTING. 



Effects of delinting and recleaning on the agricultural and com- 

 mercial value of cottonseed for planting purposes were studied dur- 

 ing the fiscal year. The relation of the rate of delinting to the ap- 

 pearance of the seed, the percentage of seed cut by delinter saws, the 

 time required for and total percentage of germination and weight 

 per measured bushel or volume of 30 pounds were determined. 

 Detailed results of these studies are incorporated in Department Bul- 

 letin No. 1219, Delinting and Recleaning Cottonseed for Planting 

 Purposes, now in press. 



Progress made by seed dealers in installing delinting and re- 

 cleaning machinery is being closely followed and suggestion and 

 assistance given whenever requested. More dealers are delinting and 

 recleaning cottonseed each season and the use of recleaned, delinted 

 seed is being extended with gratifying results on the part of growers. 

 This question is of world-wide interest and inquiries upon the sub- 

 ject of delinting and recleaning cottonseed have been received from 

 government agencies in India and New South Wales. 



MARKET NEWS SERVICE ON HAY, FEED, SEED, AND BROOMCORN. 



The market news service has been continued along the same lines 

 as in former years. The feed and hay news service was materialh' 

 extended during the year. At the request of marketing agencies of 

 several States, feed and hay information was furnished them several 

 times each week and feed and hay reports were issued by the States 

 and this department cooperatively. Information on prices, supplies, 

 demand, movement, etc., is obtained from approximately 20 of the 

 principal markets of the United States. The commodities covered 

 include timothy, alfalfa, and prairie hay, straw, bran, wheat and rye 

 middlings, cottonseed and linseed meal, hominy, gluten feed, peanut 

 and velvet bean meal, dried beet pulp, broomcorn and all the im- 

 portant kinds of clover, grass, millet, and sorghum seeds. 



Hay and feed information is disseminated through the daily mar- 

 ketgrams and fuller reports as well as reports on seed are published 

 in Weather, Crops, and Markets. In adclition to the regular weekly 

 reviews of seed trade conditions, reports on the outlook, movement, 

 shipment, and prices of seed were issued throughout the summer 

 and fall when the seed crops were moving from grower to distributer. 



MARKETING LIVESTOCK, MEATS, AND WOOL DIVISION. 



Chakles V. Whalin, In Charge. 



Livestock Market Investigations and Grade Standardization, C. A. Burmeister, 

 Purebred Livestock Market Investigations, L. B. Burk ; Meat Market In- 

 vestigations and Meat Standardization, W. C. Davis ; Wool Market Investi- 

 gations and Wool Standardization, G. T. Willingmyre ; Market Information, 

 C. E. Gibbons ; Livestock Market News, E. W. Baker ; Meat Market News, 

 J. A. Burgess. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year this division had branch of- 

 fices with leased wire connections for reporting the wholesale meat 



