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BULLETIN 375, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
markets. The minimum ranges in lint percentages shown are for 
the markets from which a comparatively small number of samples 
were collected. If a large number of samples had been obtained in 
all markets, it is evident that the range of variation would have been 
found to be even greater than here given. 
Table III. — Extreme variations in lint, seed, and trash percentages from samples obtained 
in specified towns in Oklahoma. 
Num- 
ber of 
loads 
sam- 
pled. 
Lint percentage. 
Seed percentage. 
Trash percentage. 
Market. 
High. 
Low. 
Range 
of 
varia- 
tion. 
High. 
Low. 
Range 
of" 
varia- 
tion. 
High. 
Low. 
Range 
of 
varia- 
tion. 
21 
38 
85 
55 
119 
143 
202 
100 
118 
P. cent. 
33.9 
36.2 
38.3 
38.6 
36.4 
36.3 
38.4 
37.0 
37.4 
P. cent. 
27.3 
29.6 
27.0 
27.2 
25.7 
24.3 
25.1 
26.5 
29.4 
P. cent. 
6.6 
6.6 
11.3 
11.4 
10.7 
12.0 
13.3 
10.5 
8.0 
P. cent. 
66.5 
70.6 
69.5 
66.9 
71.4 
72.3 
71.9 
69.7 
70.2 
P. cent. 
51.9 
53.8 
52.3 
58.3 
61.2 
48.1 
52.8 
44.8 
58.6 
P. cent. 
14.6 
16.8 
17.2 
8.6 
10.2 
24.2 
19.1 
24.9 
11.6 
P. cent. 
21.9 
15.7 
20.6 
11.9 
14.2 
23.2 
17.0 
25.4 
10.9 
P. cent. 
3.0 
.9 
.2 
.4 
.9 
.7 
.8 
.9 
1.1 
P. cent. 
IS. 9 
Covle 
14.8 
Crescent 
20.4 
11.5 
Haskell 
13.3 
22.5 
Shawnee 
16.2 
Tahlequah 
24.5 
9.8 
Oklahoma 
8S1 
3S.6 
24.3 
14.3 
72.3 
44.8 
27.5 
25.4 
.2 
25.2 
CONVERSION OF SEED-COTTON PRICE TO THE EQUIVALENT LINT- 
COTTON PRICE. 
For the purpose of making a comparison between the prices 
obtained for the lint content of the different loads and a further 
comparison of the prices for seed cotton with prices obtained for 
lint, the price paid for seed cotton has been converted into its equiv- 
alent price per pound of baled lint cotton. The method of deter- 
mining this price may be illustrated thus: 
On September 13, 1913, a load of seed cotton was sold in Shawnee 
at $4 per 100 pounds, the outturns of which were 30 per cent lint, 68 
per cent seed, and 2 per cent trash. Allowing the prevailing price 
of s20 per ton or 1 cent per pound for the seed, the 30 pounds of 
lint in each hundred pounds of seed cotton brought $4, less the value 
of the seed, 68 cents, or S3. 32. As it requires about 22 pounds of 
bagging and ties to cover 478 pounds of lint, 0.046 of a pound of 
bagging and ties is required to wrap each pound of cotton, and it 
would take 1.38 pounds of tare to bale these 30 pounds of lint. This 
tare would bring the same price as the lint, making the selling weight 
of lint and tare equal to 31.38 pounds. The ginning and baling 
charge of S3. 50 per bale, or 70 cents per hundred pounds, is figured 
on the gross weight. The 31.38 pounds gross weight of cotton would 
cost for ginning and baling at the rate of 70 cents per hundred pounds, 
or 22 cents, which added to S3. 32, the original cost of the 30 pounds 
of lint, gives S3. 54 as the total cost to the ginner of 31.38 pounds of 
baled lint, or 11.28 cents per pound. Therefore, in this particular 
