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CIRCULAR NO. 123, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



In quality — that is, in len2;t]i and strength of staple — the crop was 

 very uniform and satisfactory. Some of the lint staj)led only If 

 inches, but the bulk of it was fuUy 1-^ inches long and some was 

 shghtly over 1| inches long, Wliilc the entire crop has not yet been 

 sold, the prices for the sales so far reported have been approximate!}' 

 21 cents per pound, net weight, dehvered on the cars at the shipping 

 point. These prices are said to have been based on the sale of tlie 

 cro}) at 23 cents per pound at New England ])()ints, the inargin of 

 2 cents being rec[uired to pay the charges for freight, brokerage, and 

 other marketing expenses. 



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Fig. 1.— Bales of Eg\-ptian cotton at Mesa, Ariz., from the crop of 1912. The bales are completely coverecl 



with a light-weight yet strong grade of lunlap. 



A small portion of the cotton was of low grad(\ (hie to careless pick- 

 ing, or was of comparatively poor quality, due to bad coiKhtions in 

 the fields. This cotton brouglit a somewhat lower price. The crop 

 from some fields had to be sliipped to assembling })oints to be made 

 up into carload lots, wliicli increased the cost of transportation. 

 However, the bulk of the crop has brouglit tlie producer about 21 

 cents per pound at his sliipping point, which, consid(M'iiig tlie \Telds 

 previously mentioned, is a satisfactory return. 



In a few cases the grower sold his crop in the seed; that is, unginned. 

 In tliis conchtion it brought 4f and 5 cents per pound, and at tliis 

 price the purchaser was able to pay the cost of ginning and baling 

 and to sell the fdjer at 21 cents with a safe margin of |)i()fit. 

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