16 
BULLETIN 375, U„ S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The losses by selling in the seed range from 35 points, or $1.75 per 
bale for Low Middling, to 152 points, or $7.60 per bale for Good 
Middling. Selling the cotton unginned caused an aggregate loss of 
$2,715.20 on the 586 loads here represented, or an average loss of 
$4.63 for each bale. Thus it is shown that the producer who sells his 
cotton unginned lost on each grade, and that the losses on the higher 
grades exceeded those on the lower grades. 
PRICES FOR EACH MONTH DURING SEASON THROUGHOUT STATE. 
Table XI has been prepared in order to compare the prices obtained 
for cotton by the two systems of marketing, during each month and 
throughout the season. Twenty-nine lint samples of extra staple 
have been omitted from this table, but the remaining 4,504 bales and 
the 881 loads sampled have been considered. The number of samples 
of both lint and seed cotton for each month, the average prices 
secured for lint and seed cotton, the average equivalent lint prices 
and the estimated losses per pound and per bale are shown. 
Table XI. — Comparison, by months, between prices secured for cotton when sold unginned 
and when sold in the bale during the entire season in the markets represented. 
Cotton sold in 
Month. 
Number 
of bales 
sampled. 
Average 
price per 
pound. 
Cotton sold in seed. 
Number 
of loads 
sampled. 
Average 
price 
per 100 
pounds. 
Average 
equiva- 
lent lint 
price per 
pound. 
Estimated loss by- 
selling unginned. 
Per 
pound. 
Per bale. 
September. 
October. .. 
November. 
December . 
January... 
873 
607 
■m 
106 
Cents. 
13.12 
12.46 
10.95 
9.74 
104 
315 
253 
182 
27 
$4.03 
4.09 
3.55 
2.84 
2.62 
Cents. 
11.62 
11.69 
9.94 
7.69 
Cents. 
1.50 
.77 
1.01 
2.05 
1.48 
$7.50 
3.85 
5.05 
10.25 
7.40 
Summary . 
4,504 
11.70 
881 
3.62 
10.20 
U.21 
16.06 
1 These figures have been reached by weighting the losses by the number of loads sampled in each month. 
A loss is shown for each month ranging from an average of $3.85 
per bale in October to $10.25 per bale in December. The average 
baled lint price for the entire season is shown as 11.70 cents and the 
average equivalent lint price for the entire season as 10.20 cents. 
There occurred an average loss of 1.21 cents per pound or $6.06 per 
bale. 
A STUDY OF CONDITIONS IN A SPECIFIC LOCALITY. 
In order to determine the prices paid for seed cotton and to com- 
pare the prices paid for Triumph cotton with the prices paid for other 
varieties, the town of Crowder was chosen, as activities in that 
locality had resulted in a large percentage of production of Mebane's 
Triumph cotton. Each week an equal number of samples of Triumph 
and other varieties of seed cotton were collected simultaneously. 
The Triumph samples were taken from loads belonging to farmers 
who were well known as producers of this variety, while the other 
