38 BULLETIN 1392, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
CLASSING 
Each association employs a head classer and several additional 
classers, the number depending upon the volume of deliveries. Many 
Fic. 7.—Checking samples received from warehouses. If the tag numbers in each sample 
correspond to the association’s records, the samples are delivered immediately to the 
classing room 
of these are licensed by the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture under either the cotton standards act or the warehouse act. In 
every case classing 1s based on the official cotton standards. 
I'ic. 8.—Classing room of the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ Association. Each sample is 
examined and its grade and staple determines the pool in which the bale is placed 
The Texas and Louisiana associations maintain classing offices at 
their concentration points; all others at general headquarters. On 
