. Yearbook of agriculture . ecotton reduce its valuein proportion to thequantity of such for-eign matter present. Standards for grad-ing.—There has alwaysbeen considerable con-fusion in the market-ing of cotton, due tothe fact that nearlyevery market had itsown grades, and thesewere frequentlychanged to meet spe-cial crop order to simplifycotton marketing bymaking a single set ofstandard grades, onwhich quotations andpurchases and sales could be based, the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture was authorized in the appropriation billfor the fiscal j-ear 1909 to prepare grade s
. Yearbook of agriculture . ecotton reduce its valuein proportion to thequantity of such for-eign matter present. Standards for grad-ing.—There has alwaysbeen considerable con-fusion in the market-ing of cotton, due tothe fact that nearlyevery market had itsown grades, and thesewere frequentlychanged to meet spe-cial crop order to simplifycotton marketing bymaking a single set ofstandard grades, onwhich quotations andpurchases and sales could be based, the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture was authorized in the appropriation billfor the fiscal j-ear 1909 to prepare grade standards. Subse-quent legislation enlarged these powers and authorized thesale of copies of the Official Cotton Standards to all Avho de-sired them. The United States Official Cotton Standards forgrade have now been adopted by the exchanges of practi-cally all the leading cotton markets of this country. Ap-proximately 2,500 full and fractional copies of the standardshave been sold to the American cotton trade. Copies have. Fig. 38.^—Grading by standards. A full setof white standards consists of 9 boxes,each containing 12 of the samegrade of eotton. The 12 samples indi-cate the range of diversity allowed withinthe grade. 09912°—YBK 1021- + 26 380 YearhooTt of the Department of Agriculture, 1921.
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