MARKF^NG COTTONSEED FOR PLANTING PURPOSES 11 
WEIGHT AND SIZE OF DELINTED SEED 
Delinted seed, although containing more seed per pound, is not so 
bulky as ginned seed. For example, 30 pounds of ginned seed may 
fill a bushel measure and contain 120,000 seeds, whereas this same lot 
of seed when delinted would weigh about 27 pounds and measure 
only approximately seven-eighths of a bushel. However, it would 
still contain the same number of seeds (120,000) and have the same 
or a greater planting capacity. Also it should be remembered that if 
30 pounds (a bushel measure) of ginned seed contain 120,000 seeds, 
30 pounds of delinted seed contain approximately 132,000 seeds and 
have a proportionately greater planting capacity, although they may 
not fill a bushel measure. The number of seeds per pound or per 
bushel varies with the different varieties of cotton, some of which 
have much larger seeds than others, but a given number of delinted 
seeds, regardless of variety, weigh from 5 to 10 per cent less and are 
from 10 to 20 per cent less bulky than an 
equal number of ginned seeds of the same 
variety. 
APPEARANCE OF DELINTED SEED 
The delinted seeds have a more brown- 
ish appearance than ginned seeds, and 
some may be so closely delinted that the 
black hull shows partially, as illustrated FlG . 5 .-cottonseed cut or broken 
in Figure 6. Karely, however, do they by saws in denoting. Natural 
have the appearance of " slick seed," and 
there is no basis for the contention that the slick appearance of the 
seeds would cause farmers to be skeptical regarding the purity as to 
variety. Neither can delisting be construed as a cloak which might 
be used by unscrupulous dealers to hide inferior qualities. On the 
other hand, it should help indirectly to minimize the number of 
dealers in this class or reduce greatly the comparative volume of their 
business. The poorest quality of ginned cottonseed sold for plant- 
ing purposes would be improved by delinting and subsequent re- 
cleaning and grading. It is not intended that delinting should take 
the place of breeding, selecting, or any other phase of improving 
the value or productiveness of cottonseed, but that it should supple- 
ment these methods and make the most carefully bred or selected 
cottonseed of still greater value for planting purposes. 
RECLEANING AND GRADING 
Modern and specially designed machinery is provided by all pro- 
gressive dealers for recleaning and grading seeds of grains, clovers, 
grasses, and other field and forage crops ; but seed of cotton, the all- 
important money crop of the South, has not received in this respect 
the attention by commercial agencies that it deserves. This indiffer- 
ence may be partly because of the fact that the necessity for and 
value of recleaning and grading cottonseed have not been realized 
fully ; consequently progress in developing machines for the purpose 
has been slow. Also cottonseed as it ordinarily comes from the gin 
still contains sufficient lint to prevent the seeds from separating read- 
