DISADVANTAGES OF SELLING COTTON IN THE SEED. 
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samples were taken indiscriminately and may include some Triumph 
cotton. 
These collections were made between November 22 and January 
19 and resulted in the accumulation of 27 Triumph and 28 other 
samples, a comparison of which is shown in Table XII. As the first 
part of the season was not covered, the average grade of both lots 
was below that of the season, but this fact does not affect the com- 
parison during the period under consideration. 
Table XII. — Comparison between Triumph and other seed-cotton sales in Crowder, Olla. 
Varieties. 
Number 
of loads 
sampled. 
Approxi- 
mate 
grade 
average. 
Lint out- 
turn. 
Seed out- 
turn. 
Trash 
outturn. 
Seed cot- 
ton price 
per 100 
pounds. 
Equiva- 
lent lint 
price per 
pound. 
27 
28 
L. M.... 
S.G.O.. 
Per cent. 
34.4 
33.1 
Per cent. 
63.5 
64.2 
Per cent. 
3.6 
4.2 
$3.67 
3.13 
Cents. 
9.52 
Other 
8.23 
Summary 
55 
33.7 
63.9 
3.9 
3.39 
8.86 
Table XII shows that Triumph had a distinct advantage over the 
miscellaneous varieties commonly grown in this neighborhood. 
The quality is shown to be a full grade higher, which is probably 
explained by the fact that it was produced by more careful growers. 
The lint outturn was 1.3 per cent greater and the price paid for the 
unginned cotton 54 cents per hundred pounds more. The average 
prices paid for the unginned cotton were: For Triumph $3.67, and 
for other varieties $3.13 per hundred pounds, which, when converted 
to the equivalent baled lint prices, are 9.52 cents and 8.23 cents per 
pound, respectively, a difference in favor of Triumph of 1.29 cents 
per pound. After allowing 50 points for difference in grade, 0.79 
cent per pound, or $3.95 per bale more was paid by the ginners for 
Triumph than for other cotton.. 
No statistics were obtained on prices paid for lint cotton in this 
immediate vicinity, but the prices paid for these 55 loads when 
expressed in equivalent baled-cotton prices show an average of 8.86 
cents per pound for this cotton, about half of which was Triumph, 
carefully picked and handled. Comparing this average with the 
average lint price of 9.87 cents throughout the State during this 
period as determined by the survey of lint cotton sales, it is found 
that on each pound of cotton sold unginned in this market the grow- 
ers sustained an average loss of 1.01 cents, and on each bale an aver- 
age loss of $5.05. It is evident that the producers of this section, 
both as individuals and as a community, would profit by having 
their cotton custom ginned, thereby eliminating the various uncer- 
tain factors that exist when cotton is sold in the seed and reaping the 
benefit of the high percentage of outturn of lint and low percentage 
of trash, and the good character of their cotton. The activities in 
