DELINTING AND RECLEANING COTTONSEED FOR PLANTING. 17 
difference in freight charges at a shipping distance represented by a 
freight rate of Si per 100 pounds would amount to a saving of S3. In 
other words, on the basis of the foregoing example of values and 
freight rates, 1 ton of ginned seed would cost $60 delivered, and 1,700 
pounds of recleaned delinted seed, having the same planting capacity, 
would cost only $56.60. 
It was shown in Table 5, page 6, that when cottonseed is delinted 
at a moderate rate the number of all seeds per ton of delinted seed is 5 
per cent greater and when delinted closely 8 or 9 per cent greater 
than in a ton of ginned seed. Not over 1 per cent of the good seeds 
are lost in recleaning after delinting, and practically the same number 
of good seeds remain from a ton of ginned seed after it is delinted and 
recleaned as originally existed. If the weight of therecleaned, delinted 
seed obtained from a ton of ginned seed is only 1,700 pounds, as in 
the above example, then 1 ton of the finished product would contain 
approximately 17.5 per cent more good seeds than 1 ton of ginned 
seed. The net increase in the cost of delinted and recleaned seed per 
ton, however, is only 16.5 per cent in the example. In other words 
the cost of delinting and recleaning cottonseed, including the shrink- 
age, is more than offset by the increased number of good seeds per ton. 
The number of good seeds per unit of weight is the correct basis of 
comparative values from the farmer's point of view because this 
factor directly affects the planting capacity. An increase of 15 to 20 
per cent in the price paid for recleaned delinted seed over that paid for 
ginned seed would not mean ordinarily an increased cost of the quan- 
tity required per acre. The recleaned delinted seeds have a greater 
planting capacity not only as a result of the increased number of seeds 
per unit of weight but because they may be distributed more uniformly 
and the quantity or number of seeds sown per acre further reduced 
without endangering the possibilities of obtaining a stand of plants. 
AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES OF DELINTED AND RECLEANED COTTON- 
SEED. 
The ultimate value of any process of improving the physical condi- 
tion of seed is measured by the agricultural advantages accruing to 
the farmer who plants such seeds. Commercially, any operation of 
this kind must pay its own way and to do this the results must be 
reflected in either increased or more economical yields. Results ob- 
tained by some of the largest cotton growers from planting delinted 
and recleaned cottonseed over a period 'of from three to eight years 
indicate clearly that the practice is worthy of universal adoption. 
The following paragraphs on the agricultural advantages of delint- 
ing are taken, with slight modification, from United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture Bulletin 1056, Marketing Cottonseed for Plant- 
ing Purposes : 
Delinting promotes a uniform stand of plants by enabling the seeds to germinate 
more nearly simultaneously and with the aid of less moisture. There is a wide varia- 
tion in the quantity of lint left on individual ginned seeds and when planted the seeds 
with the shortest lint on them come into closer contact with the soil moisture and 
germinate more quickly than those containing excessive lint. 
Closely delinted seeds contain a very small, uniform quantity of short lint or fuzz, 
germinate at practically the same time, and produce a more nearly perfect stand of 
plants at least two or three days earlier. This is of value in growing cotton under con- 
ditions of boll weevil infestation because every day gained in getting the plants 
above the ground increases the prospects of obtaining a profitable yield. 
