MEADE COTTON" EEPLACIXG SEA ISLAND. 
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Table 3. 
-Results of comparative spinning tests of Meade and Egyptian Sakel- 
laridis cottons in 1918. 
Items of comparison. 
Extra 
fine 
Sakel- 
laridis, 
size No. 
120. 
Meade, 
size No. 
120. 
Good 
Sakel- 
laridis, 
size No. 
100. 
Meade, 
size No. 
100. 
Loss: 
Scutching 
Carding 
Combing 
per cent . . 
do 
do... 
do.... 
pounds . . 
3.00 
6.00 
21.50 
4.96 
6.50 
21.50 
3.50 
6.50 
21.50 
4.96 
6.50 
21.50 
Total 
30.50 
32.96 
31.50 
32.96 
Strength 
15.90 
116.50 
15.50 
116. 50 
IS. 58 
97.50 
18.50 
97.50 
The Sea Island and Meade tests were conducted in cooperation with 
the Bureau of Plant Industry to determine the advisability of urg- 
ing farmers to plant the Meade variety instead of the Sea Island. 
The results of the waste tests gave the Sea Island cotton 21.9 per 
cent and the Meade 28.6 per cent. The results of the tensile-strength 
tests on these cottons are given in Table 4. 
These tests were conducted during the fiscal year 1918-19 to deter- 
mine the relative value from the spinner's point of view of Sea Island 
and Meade cottons in the manufacture of airplane fabric. Both of 
these cottons were If inches in length of staple and about equal in 
grade. The result of this test indicated that Sea Island cotton was 
about 5 per cent less wasty than the Meade and from 8 to 20 per cent 
stronger, depending upon the number of yarn spun. 10 
Table 4. — Breaking strength of Sea Island and Meade cottons in pounds per 
skein of 120 yards. 
Size of yarn. 
No. 100 pounds.. 
No. 80 do. . . . 
No. 60 do. . . . 
No. 40 do 
No. 28 do.... 
Sea Island (fancy, If inches) 
twist factor. 
17.78 
25.71 
39.90 
69.50 
128.7 
3.50 
17.60 
25.91 
39.40 
69.75 
128.0 
17.18 
25.52 
38.78 
68.48 
122.2 
Meade (S. G. M., If inches) 
twist factor. 
3.25 
16.18 
24.43 
35.77 
58.74 
108.4 
3.50 
16.33 
24.09 
35.38 
60.09 
109.2 
3.80 
16.00 
23.20 
34.92 
56.93 
103.3 
10 Mr. D. E. Earle, then specialist in cotton classing, Bureau of Markets, in charge of 
these tests, stated that the Sea Island bale used was much superior to the average 
Georgia Sea Island cotton. In fact, several hundred bales of Sea Island cotton grown 
in the vicinity of Statesboro, Ga., were examined before one was found of length and 
grade equal to the Meade. In order to make the test strictly comparable, the two bales 
were run through all machinery at tbe same settings, no attempt being made to adjust 
the machinery to the best advantage for eitber of the cottons used. But it was found 
after the test had been made that the Meade comber waste contained considerable long 
fiber which if it had not been rejected by the comber would have materially reduced 
the total percentage of waste shown for the variety. This rejection of long fiber by the 
comber possibly was due to the Meade fibers not being made parallel to the same degree 
as the Sea Island in the drawing preparatory to the formation of the comber lap. If 
the Meade fiber had been further drawn before combing, doubtless fewer long fibers 
would have been rejected and the consequent waste would have been reduced. 
