. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. BEHAVIOR OF SEED COTTON IN FARM STORAGE. 17 per cent, while the interior of the looser and untramped contained 10 per cent. The surface cotton of the two piles by this date, December 1, had run down to per cent on the tramped and per cent of moisture on the untramped pile. As far as can be observed, there were no correlations between moisture and temperature in these two lots of cotton. A bale of the staple, which is about 1J inches long, from the tramped pUe was purchased for spinning and waste comparisons with freshly picked and
. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. BEHAVIOR OF SEED COTTON IN FARM STORAGE. 17 per cent, while the interior of the looser and untramped contained 10 per cent. The surface cotton of the two piles by this date, December 1, had run down to per cent on the tramped and per cent of moisture on the untramped pile. As far as can be observed, there were no correlations between moisture and temperature in these two lots of cotton. A bale of the staple, which is about 1J inches long, from the tramped pUe was purchased for spinning and waste comparisons with freshly picked and immediately ginned cotton of the same variety, namely, Webber, and with another bale ginned from a body of 40,000 pounds of seed cotton of the same variety which had been stored unginned for a considerable period in bin Fig. 3.—Pile containing about 30,000 pounds of seed cotton. This cotton was picked through a period of several weeks and did not suffer from heating. Bins C and D ultimately contained between 70,000 and 80,000 pounds of seed cotton. This was accumulated gradually, the cotton at the bottom having received the preliminary drying in the loft, while the later pickings were added to the pile daily, unless rains occurred which made it advisable to dry the early morning pickings of certain days before adding them to the pile. It was found that practically all of the later pickings, if dry when picked, could be thrown into the bulk without any danger of heating. About the middle of November, when the pile in bin Chad attained a weight of about 30,000 pounds, two composite samples were taken from both the inside and the outside of the pile. The pile of cotton as it appeared at this time is shown in figure 3. [Cir. 123]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Pla
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