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BULLETIN 1056, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Fig. 7. — Cottonseed and classes of dockage removed in recleaning and grading. 
(a) Ginned seed: lb) delinted seed, not recleaned : (d) delinted seed, as in (6), 
but recleaned and graded, all thrash, dirt, and lightweight, immature, or otherwise 
inferior seeds, as shown in (c), being removed by recleaning and grading machine, 
leaving- every seed a potential plant. These samples were taken from a ginning, 
delinting, and recleaning and grading plant in regular operation. In recleaning and 
grading delinted seed (6), resulting in the quality of seed shown in (d), the total 
dockage by weight was about 4 per cent, Natural size 
