. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE RELATION OF COTTON BUYING TO COTTON GROWING. 21 of a variety of cotton, nor even to regard very highly the advice of the Department of Agriculture regarding the necessity of such precautions. More general planting of long-staple cottons can not be advised unless marketing conditions are improved. Greater discrimination in buying would be the most effective way to encourage the production of long-staple cottons, by giving the farmer a more direct interest in maintaining the purity and uniformity of his crop as a mea
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE RELATION OF COTTON BUYING TO COTTON GROWING. 21 of a variety of cotton, nor even to regard very highly the advice of the Department of Agriculture regarding the necessity of such precautions. More general planting of long-staple cottons can not be advised unless marketing conditions are improved. Greater discrimination in buying would be the most effective way to encourage the production of long-staple cottons, by giving the farmer a more direct interest in maintaining the purity and uniformity of his crop as a means of securmg the full market price. The present tendency to buy long-staple cotton at flat prices like short-staple cotton does not encourage greater care and discrimination on the part of the farmer, but encourages the opposite tendencies to care- lessness, loss of uniformity of fiber, and degeneration of varieties. Accordingly, there may be urged upon manufacturers and others who are interested in the development of the long-staple cotton industry the importance of improving the methods of buying, so that greater discrimination may be used, instead of paying the same prices for mixed fiber as for fiber raised from pure stocks of seed. Inspection of the cotton in the field affords a much better basis of judgment regarding the essential quality of uniformity than the present method of pulling samples from the bales. Field inspection should precede warehouse grading, especially with long-staple cottons. Familiarity with a variety of cotton makes it possible to recognize much smaller percentages of admixture or degeneration than can be detected in the bale, thus affording a greater degree of protection to the buyer and manufacturer and at the same time offering a greater inducement to the farmer to maintain the purity and uniformity of his cotton. ADDITIONAL COPIES of this publication -tx. may be procured from the Superintend- ent OF Documents, Government Printing Office, Washin
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