DISADVANTAGES OF SELLING COTTON IN THE SEED. 
9 
or $8.20 per bale. According to New Orleans spot quotations on 
that day, the Strict Low Middling bale was worth 2.44 cents per 
pound more than the other bale, but brought 1.64 cents less, making 
a total discrepancy of 4.08 cents per pound, or $20.40 per bale. 
Since only 10 loads were sampled in each of these collections, it 
is unlikely that the widest ranges of grades, outturns, or equivalent 
lint prices which actually occurred are disclosed by the tables pre- 
sented. Gross injustices can be expected in any market at any time 
when the same price is paid for practically all unginned cotton regard- 
less of its quality and its percentages of seed, lint, and trash. The 
custom of averaging seed-cotton prices results in undue hardships on 
farmers who market carefully handled cotton from varieties produc- 
ing superior lint and in many cases results in a direct premium to 
farmers who sell inferior seed cotton. 
VARIATIONS IN PRICES OF IDENTICAL GRADE OF LINT COTTON WHEN 
SOLD UNGINNED. 
The custom of selling seed cotton resulted in wide variations 
between the prices received for the same quality of lint cotton in 
the same market during the same week, and Table VI has been 
prepared to show these differences. Such loads as produced below 
Good Ordinary, sandy, or dusty cotton have been excluded, but the 
comparisons include all grades and all of the localities from which 
seed-cotton samples were obtained. Only such variations as exceeded 
per 500-pound bale have been given. 
Table VI. — Difference in prices paid for lint of a given grade when sold in the seed in 
the same market during the same week. 
Market. 
Kingfisher 
Shawnee 
Tahlequah 
Weleetka 
Do 
Anadarko 
Kingfisher 
Shawnee 
Crowder 
Crescent 
Crowder 
Haskell 
Kingfisher 
Shawnee 
Crowder 
Kingfisher 
Weleetka 
Kingfisher 
Shawnee 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Kingfisher 
Grade. 
G.O 
G.O 
G.O 
G.O 
G.O 
L.M 
L.M 
L.M 
L. M. spotted 
S.L.M 
S.L.M 
S.L.M 
S.L.M 
S.L.M 
S. L. M. spotted 
M 
S.M.... 
S.M.... 
S.M.... 
S.M.... 
S.M.... 
G.M.... 
G.M.... 
S. G.M. 
Week 
ending- 
Nov. 22 
Nov. 1 
Dec. 27 
Dec. 20 
Jan. 17 
Nov. 22 
Nov. 1 
Dec. 6 
Dec. 27 
Oct. 25 
Dec. 6 
Nov. 15 
Oct. 25 
Oct. 11 
Dec. 13 
Oct. 11 
Nov. 15 
Oct. 11 
Oct. 18 
Sept. 13 
Oct. 4 
Oct. 25 
Sept. 13 
Sept. 20 
Oct. 18 
Number 
of 
loads. 
Equivalent lint price per 
pound. 
Highest. 
Cents. 
9.65 
11.53 
9.32 
7.41 
7.71 
11.49 
10.70 
8.93 
11.28 
13.23 
11.72 
14.47 
11.05 
11.27 
10.08 
13.55 
10.95 
15.56 
11.07 
14.18 
12.76 
12.68 
12.75 
12.72 
11. 59 
Lowest. 
Cents. 
4.44 
8.71 
4.98 
5.18 
5.19 
7.76 
8.56 
4.44 
7.91 
10.15 
9.28 
12.22 
8.89 
8.18 
8.05 
11.31 
8.79 
10.61 
9.01 
10.82 
10.69 
10.34 
10.57 
8.65 
9.49 
Differ- 
ence. 
Cents. 
5.21 
2.82 
4.34 
2.23 
2.52 
3.73 
2.14 
4.49 
3.37 
3.08 
2.44 
2.25 
2.16 
3.09 
2.03 
2.24 
2.16 
4.95 
2.06 
3.36 
2.07 
2.34 
2.18 
4.07 
2.10 
Estimated 
difference 
in price 
between 
$26. 05 
14.10 
21.70 
11.15 
12.60 
18.65 
10.70 
22.45 
16.85 
15.40 
12.20 
11.25 
10.80 
15.45 
10.15 
11.20 
10.80 
24.75 
10.30 
16.80 
10.35 
11.70 
10.90 
20.35 
10. 50 
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