MARKETING COTTON SEED FOR PLANTING PURPOSES. 7 
Delinting effects an economy in the use of cotton seed, as planting ma- 
chines will distribute a smaller quantity per acre more uniformly. 
It will eliminate the necessity of a force feed in planting machines 
and facilitate the single-seed distribution and the planting of cotton 
seed in hills. The thin uniform stand, made possible by the use of 
delinted seed, also may help to simplify the culture of cotton by what 
is known as the single stalk method 5 which, repeated experiments 
show, 6 produces the highest 3-ields and earliest maturity. 
Fig. 2. — A type of machine used in delinting cotton seed. 
COST OF DELINTING. 
The cost of delinting, which on first thought may be expected to be 
excessive, is small per unit. It necessarily varies with the capacity 
of the plant and the quantity of seed handled or the number of days 
the plant is operated during a season. A plant may be installed m 
a dealer's warehouse and operated separately or installed and oper- 
ated in connection with a ginnery. The kind of machine used is the 
same as that for delinting cotton seed for oil manufacture and is 
E Cook, O. F. : A New System of Cotton Culture and its Application, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 601. 1914. 
6 Cardon, P. V. : Experiments with Single-Stalk Cotton Culture in Louisiana, Arkansas, 
and North Carolina, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 526. 1918. Meade, R. M. : 
Single-Stalk Cotton Culture at San Antonio, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 
279. 1915. 
