12 BULLETIN 375, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
averaged 10.84 cents; and a bale below Good Ordinary 9.10 cents 
against a Middling 7.85 cents per pound. 
Of 12 comparisons made in Weleetka, 4 showed the poorest bale to 
have brought more per pound than did the best bale. Two Strict 
Good Ordinary bales averaged 11.44 cents, against a Good Middling 
10.13 cents per pound. 
A further analysis of the data concerning these 84 collections 
showed that in 29 comparisons the lowest equivalent lint price repre- 
sented a bale of higher quality than the one actually selling at the 
highest price, and in 14 additional cases the quality of the bales 
represented by the lowest and highest prices was identical. 
It is quite evident from these facts that the selling of unginned 
cotton in actual practice is attended by great uncertainty and fre- 
quently with much injustice to those who produce the higher grades 
of cotton. 
IRREGULARITIES IN PRICES RECEIVED FOR THE LINT CONTENT OF 
SEED COTTON. 
Table VIII is presented to show with respect to grade the incon- 
sistencies between equivalent lint prices of cotton sold unginned in 
the same market during the same week. Only such comparisons 
are included in this table as show discrepancies in price over $15 per 
bale. 
This investigation afforded data from which 84 comparisons could 
be made between loads sold during the same week in the same 
market. The extreme discrepancies in price in 34 cases were more 
than S15 per bale; in 32 cases were from 810 to 815; and in 18 
instances were under 810. In these comparisons ranges from 95 
cents to 830.35 per bale occurred. The widest variation occurred in 
Haskell during the week of Xovember 8, when, of 9 loads sampled, a 
bale below Good Ordinary brought an equivalent of 13.48 cents, 
while a Strict Good Ordinary brought an equivalent of only 9.29 
cents per pound. The lower grade bale brought 4.19 cents more per 
pound, while it was worth 1.88 cents per pound less, making a total 
discrepancy of 6.07 cents per pound or 830.35 between the bales. 
The least variation found was 95 cents per bale in Crescent on 
November 8, when only 2 loads were sampled. 
The most noteworthy facts brought out by this table are the wide 
discrepancies that occurred between the amounts secured by different 
farmers for loads of seed cotton, the frequency with which low-grade 
bales sold for more than did higher grades, and the wide variations 
between prices. 
