DURANGO COTTON IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. a 
into the bale in even layers, the samples that are drawn from the 
bale will be even and attractive to buyers. 
When the bale arrives at the mill and is opened, the cotton can 
be taken off the bale in layers and mixed with other cotton with 
the least amount of labor. When such cotton is run through the 
_ pickers, cards, and combers, it not only will be easier to spin than 
cotton that has been carelessly handled, but the loss in waste will 
be much less, and the grower will reap the benefits to be derived from 
a careful ginning, baling, and covering of his cotton. 
Up to the present time the local ginners have not given enough 
attention to this matter, with the result that some of the bales of 
Fic. 3.—Pickings from one car of country-damaged cotton, 
cotton on sampling have resembled repacked cotton. The growers 
and ginners of the valley can not afford to allow this loss to con- 
tinue. 
Tt is a well-known fact that the American square bale is put up 
in very poor material for handling and storing, and is the most 
insufficiently covered bale put on the world’s cotton markets.1_ This 
complaint has been made not only by the spinning mills in the 
United States, but by those in Canada, England, and Europe. The 
loss in weight and damage to cotton that occurs while it is in transit 
1 Taylor, Fred, Griffith, D. C., and Atkinson, C. E. Ginning Information for Farmers. 
U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers’ Bul. 764, 1916. 
