. Yearbook of agriculture . briefly described, is as follows: The seed first are cleaned of dirt and trash, then passedthrough a delinting machine, which removes the short lintor fuzz, making what are known as linters; it is thenpassed through machines which crush or cut the seed in finepieces and separate the hulls from the kernels; and finallythe oil is expressed from the kernels in hydraulic presses,leaving a residue which is called cake and which whenground becomes cottonseed meal. In the cold-press millsthe whole seed is crushed and no effort is made to separatehulls from kernels. Warehou
. Yearbook of agriculture . briefly described, is as follows: The seed first are cleaned of dirt and trash, then passedthrough a delinting machine, which removes the short lintor fuzz, making what are known as linters; it is thenpassed through machines which crush or cut the seed in finepieces and separate the hulls from the kernels; and finallythe oil is expressed from the kernels in hydraulic presses,leaving a residue which is called cake and which whenground becomes cottonseed meal. In the cold-press millsthe whole seed is crushed and no effort is made to separatehulls from kernels. Warehousing. The warehousing of cotton after ginning is very importanteconomically. Leaving the baled cotton exposed to theweather results in large losses annually from the rotting ofthe fiber. Such damage is commonly known as countrydamage. The cotton warehouse is a place of shelter andprotection from fire and theft; a place for classing and as-sorting to meet mill requirements; and finally it is a place The Cotton Situation. 377. — 5 J3 O 3 - O -w a as 2 ft ^. Si o 2 ft ^ o t a ^ b£ ?2 « « ° 378 Yearhooh of the Department of Agriculture, 1921. where cotton may be deposited under conditions wliich en-able the owner to obtain money advance upon it until suchtime as he may desire to sell. Receipts of responsible ware-houses are considered among the best kinds of security. TheFederal warehouse act of August, 1916, facilitates the useof warehouse receipts by holders of cotton in financing them-selves while holding for favorable market conditions. Warehmises.—Warehouses for storing cotton have beenbuilt at many local markets, as well as at the larger con-centration points throughout the South. (See Fig. 36.) InArkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, where much of the cotton iscustomarily marketed as soon as it is ginned, and is shipped
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