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BULLET rx 1184, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Plate XI shows rolled and tangled pieces taken from a sample 
submitted by a mill using Pima cotton. This condition was due to 
bad ginning. 
Plate XII shows badly ginned Grade No. 1 Pima cotton, as con- 
trasted with the smooth, well-ginned Pima shown in Plate XIII. 
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Fig. 1. — Half of 70 seeds in a sample found in a warehouse. 
SAMPLING OF BALES. 
Promiscuous sampling of the bales should not be permitted. Many 
bales of Pima cotton before leaving the Salt River Valley have been 
cut and resampled six or eight times. The growers' organization 
should sample the cotton, keeping half of the original sample for 
