AiiRICULTUlUL AiTKurUlATIoN Bit. I., 4(Jj 



MAKKKTISO MFATlMTIia. 



TIk' next project that is s<-IumIu1(m1 in the hook ia known hs 'Miir- 

 kctiii^ Statistics," wlu<h wjis tmnsfcrnMl to "(Vop and Livestock 

 Estiinnfcs. " hist year and will he discussed under that appropriation. 



MAKKKTtSO INrORMATIOS. 



The next item is entith'd "Market information." $17.U(J(). which is 

 just tlie same as hist year. There is an apparent (h'crease of $.'{.()()(), 

 as a rcsuh of transfers to statiit«»rv poMtiori>. Tliis i-^ tin* j)roje<-t 

 from whicli \v»' liaiidh' all of our editorial v^ork. It is simplv routine 

 work in connection with editorial work in the hiireuu. 



COTTON HTANll.MUl^* .\M> TKSTIN*.. 



'"Cotton standards and testinfj," is the next item. Tliis really 

 should he mer*;ed with the other projects on cotton, as it is admin- 

 istere*! all in the same (hvision. It is the continuation of the wctrk 

 that we were discussing there. One of the things that lias heen stud- 

 ied, for instance, under this nroject, is the possihilitv of improving 

 th(> sampling of the hale, or tne classing of tne hale. ))y taking sam- 

 ples at tlie gin. Tlie hasis of tliis work is checking up, reallv, the 

 method of taking samples from the hale, and we are finding that it is 

 possihle to get a more accurate idea of what is in the hale if it were 

 possihh' to grade it at tlie gin. 



Mr. Ik( HAN AN. Furtlier than that, it prevents a great deal of loss. 



Mr. Tenny. Yes, sir. 



Mr. HrcHANAN. The practice of ripping a ])ale of cotton that htpg 

 [indicating] and tearing out two or tnrce pounds not only results in 

 the loss of cotton, hut a lot of foreign substance gets into it. and 

 causes tliat much tare, I believe, or loss. 



Afr. Tenny. Yes. This work is also the line of work that we do 

 in cooperation with Plant Industry in the production of new varieti(*s 

 of cotton, where our bureau conducts the spinning tests on those 

 new varieties. 



As I think we announced last year, work was started on new stand- 

 ards for cotton, certain groups of new standnrd-^. Tlmvr will be 

 effective in August, 1923. 



We are making spinning tests also of all those new standard^ and 

 determining the percentage of waste or loss in the diflerent standards. 



STATE COOPERATION IN MARKETINO WORK. 



'State cooperation in marketing work," is the next item. As I 

 outlined a year ago. our program in this project has changed very 

 materially. Oiigiiudly. this was a project for the employment of 

 joint agents in various States. The idea of co<^perating with men 

 ditl not prove successful, and. therefore, we began about IS months 

 ago to change this over, and we are now cooperating with the 

 States on projects. We are entirely satisfied with the new ar- 

 rangement. That project is conducted very largely in coop«»ration 

 witli our other projects. It covers research and extension work 

 especially. It gives us a fund from which we can make experiments 

 where a Slate manifests a desire to cooperate on some one of our 



