BEHAVIOR OF SEED COTTON IN FAEM STORAGE. 



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weighed. The appearance of tliese piles of cotton is shown in figure 

 2. The mass at the left is the untramped cotton. The tramped 

 pile is shown in part at the back. The leads from the thermometer 

 bulbs may be seen here and there on the face of the cotton. 



TEMPERATURE IN TJNGINNED COTTON STORED UNDER VARYING 



CONDITIONS. 



The records of temperature shown in Table I apply to both piles 

 of cotton, the tramped and the untramped. The bulb buried in pile 

 1 at point 1 compares most directly with the one buried in pile 2 at 



Fig. 2.— Two piles of experimental coltun in liin A. The one at the left has not heen compaeted in any 



way; the other was thoroughly tramped. 



1', 2 with 2', and 3 with -3'. All were buried about midway of the 

 total depth of the respective lots of cotton, well removed from imme- 

 -diate effects of room and outside temperatures and humidities. 

 The conditions that prevailed in the middle of each pile are repre- 

 sented by 2 and 2'. 



The temperatures and humidities from October 5 to November 17, 

 shown in the table, are the average of three daily observations taken 

 at 7 a. m., 12.30 p. m., and 6 p. m. 



[Cir. 123] 



