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BULLETIN 36, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
average price paid on a given date for all the bales of a certain grade 
sampled by us. and for comparison the average price of all the bales 
of a specified lower grade sold on that day of which samples were 
secured. In each case here given the average price for the lower 
grade was higher than that for the better grade. 
Table IX. — Certain places and dates at which the average price paid for 
higher grades of cotton was less than for lower grades. 
Date. 
Place. 
Higher grade. 
Number 
of bales. 
Grade. 
Average 
price per 
pound. 
Lower grade. 
Number 
of bales. 
Grade. 
Average 
price per 
pound. 
1912. 
Oct. 25 
26 
30 
30 
Nov. 1 
4 
4 
8 
9 
11 
13 
14 
14 
16 
16 
18 
22 
29 
Shady Point 
Holdenville . 
Purcell 
Caddo 
Noble 
Norman 
Erick 
Luther 
Cordell 
Okemah 
Wellston.... 
Durant 
Altus 
Bennington. 
Arcadia 
Marietta 
Okemah 
Gould 
Hastings 
2 
G. M.... 
4 
S.M.... 
7 
G. M.... 
4 
S.M.... 
3 
G. M.... 

S.M.... 
2 
G. M.... 
3 
G.M.... 
3 
S.M.... 
16 
S.M.... 
2 
S.M.... 
3 
S.M.... 
6 
S.M.... 
2 
M 
4 
M 
5 
S.M.... 
fi 
S.M.... 
5 
S.M.... 
2 
S.M.... 
Cents. 
10.90 
10.70 
10.86 
11.094 
11.47 
11.32 
10.85 
11.17 
11.40 
11.73 
11.94 
12.10 
11.69 
11.75 
11.55 
11.63 
11.40 
12.08 
12.06 
S.M.... 
M 
S.M.... 
M 
S.M.... 
M 
S.L.M.. 
S.M.... 
M 
M 
S.L.M.. 
S.L.M.. 
M 
S.L.M.. 
L.M.... 
M 
L.M.... 
M 
M 
Cents. 
10.95 
10.725 
11.01 
11.125 
11.51 
11.36 
11.23 
11.19 
11.42 
11.75 
11.95 
12.125 
11.75 
11.77 
11.70 
11.65 
11.75 
12.30 
12.29 
Of course, it would be possible to present another table showing 
more numerous cases in which the average price was higher for the 
better grades, although in no single case which has come under our 
observation do the gradations of price agree closely with the dif- 
ferences on which purchases are supposed to be made. The numbers 
of bales used in the comparisons in Table IX may seem too small 
to furnish a fair indication of conditions, but it must be remembered 
that all bales showing spots, tinges, stains, or " blues " have been 
omitted. T\ T e again call attention to the fact that our samplers aimed 
to get the widest possible range of quality each day. rather than a 
large number of duplicate samples, so that 2 to 6 bales of a single 
straight grade were as many as we usually took at one place. Had 
we anticipated the illogical crisscrossing of grades and prices actually 
found we could easily have arranged for larger collections of the most 
numerous grades which would have given average conditions with 
statistical accuracy. The great value and significance of the table 
rests on five facts: (1) All bales were of standard grade; (2) so 
far as we can learn, each was supposed to be sold openly on its 
merits, all round lots having been omitted: (3) the showing covers 
the whole cotton section of the State: (4) the sampling was not 
done with the expectation of showing such conditions to exist: 
