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usually applied when this surface layer is not too thick to be penetrated 
in taking the sample. A false-packed bale is one (1) containing substances 
entirely foreign to cotton; (2) containing damaged cotton in the interior 
with or without any indication of such damage upon the exterior; (3) com- 
posed of good cotton upon the exterior and decidedly inferior cotton in the 
interior, in such manner as not to be detected by customary examination; 
or (4) containing pickings or linters worked into the bale. An augur is 
sometimes used for boring into the end of a bale that is suspected of being 
false-packed. According to the present regulations under the U. S. Cotton 
Futures Act (May 1936) , a mixed-packed bale is one which in the samples drawn 
therefrom (1) shows a difference of two grades or more, if of the same color; 
or (2), if of the same grade but of different colors, is Blue Stained and 
either White, Spotted, Yellow Tinged, Light Stained, or Yellow Stained, or 
which, if none is Blue Stained, shows a difference of two or more color grad- 
ations; or (3) if the samples are of different grade and different color 
and show a variation in quality exceeding that between one grade in one color 
and the next higher or lower grade in the next higher or lower color; or (4) 
shows a difference in length of staple exceeding 1/16 of an inch. 3/ A two- 
s ided bale is one having on its top and/or bottom surface lint that differs 
in quality in any noticeable quantity. Certain two-sided bales may be plated 
and others may be mixed-packed within the above definitions. Still other 
two-sided bales may not come within the definition for either plated or mixed- 
packed bales. 
Ginning and Baling .- The degree to which the sample represents the 
bale depends, first, on the uniformity in quality of seed cotton brought 
to the gin by the grower, and, second, on the thoroughness with which the 
cotton is mixed while it is being unloaded and carried through the cleaning 
and ginning equipment. At some gins an employee handles the suction pipe 
and unloads the seed cotton in such a way as to get a good mixture. At other 
gins the person handling the suction pipe may not be so experienced, in which 
case a good mixture may not be obtained. 
Lack of uniformity in seed cotton when presented for ginning may re- 
sult from one or more of a number of causes, among which may be mentioned 
the following. (1) Rain may have come while the cotton making up the bale 
was being picked, that picked after the rain producing lint of lower grade 
than that picked before the rain. (2) The farmer may have been growing two 
varieties of cotton on his farm, and, not having a sufficient quantity of 
the pickings of one variety to make a bale, may have included enough of the 
other variety to make up the required load of seed cotton. (3) The ginner 
may have bought up various lots of seed cotton and stored them in the gin 
house or elsewhere until such time as he could conveniently gin the accum- 
ulated lot, too little care being taken to keep the different grades and 
staples separated. Occasionally a portion of this cotton may have been picked 
and other portions may have been harvested by snapping or sledding. Mixed- 
packed bales or plated bales may be the result. 
3/ The regulations in effect in May 1936 declare bales showing within them- 
selves a difference of staple exceeding 1/16 inch to be mixed-packed. At 
that time, however, a revision of this definition was under consideration, 
and interested persons would do well to inform themselves of any change that 
may have since been made in the regulations. 
