COOPERATIVE MARKETING OF COTTON a1 
is made up of samples, press sweepings, and pickings from damaged 
bales, has been estimated to amount to 150,000 bales per year. “In 
Fig. 5.—A shipment of samples from a licensed warehouse received at association head- 
quarters 
| the 1923-24 season 10 of the associations belonging to the American 
| Cotton Growers’ Exchange received $169, 308 from sales of loose 
| cotton and samples. 
Fic. 6.—Part of the sample room of the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association, at 
Dallas. Each roll contains samples of 50 bales of cotton 
Figure 6 shows a part of the sample room in the Dallas office of the 
Texas association, 
