Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 16: On left, ordinary sfjuare bale ; in een-ter, bale from gin r-ompress: and ondensity ready for export, right, ordinary compressed bale. 372 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS One great advantage of thus compressing it at the gin isthe more complete and careful covering of the l^ale mthnew, closely woven cloth (Fig. 163). On the other hand,. -st^^JisR Fiu. — B.\LEs FROM .\ Gin the comjiress utilizes a part of the coarse, heavy,and usually cut or torn co^•ering that was originally placedon the bale at the gin. 346. Commerci
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 16: On left, ordinary sfjuare bale ; in een-ter, bale from gin r-ompress: and ondensity ready for export, right, ordinary compressed bale. 372 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS One great advantage of thus compressing it at the gin isthe more complete and careful covering of the l^ale mthnew, closely woven cloth (Fig. 163). On the other hand,. -st^^JisR Fiu. — B.\LEs FROM .\ Gin the comjiress utilizes a part of the coarse, heavy,and usually cut or torn co^•ering that was originally placedon the bale at the gin. 346. Commercial classes or grades of cotton. — Cottonis Ijought and sold according to quality or grade. Whenfarmers sell, unless the iiumlier of bales lie very large, adecision as to the grade or riuality is usually made liy thebuyer, the seller being ignorant, as a rul(\ of the exactquality of cotton that he is selling. To lietter enablefarmers to know what grade of cotton they sell, mostagricultural colleges in the cottou-belt now employ ex- COTTOy MARKETIXG 373 perts to give iastruction in cotton-classing to those stu-dents who are pursuing an agricultural course. In large transactions, especially between business firmsor corporations, experts representing both parties passjudgment on the grade, and anj- chfference in classificationis arbitrated by chsinterested experts. The classi
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