The Grading Of Cottonseed

Excerpt from The Official Standards of the United States for the Grading, Sampling, and Analyzing of Cottonseed Sold or Offered for Sale for Crushing Purposes: Effective, June, 1932 Various efforts to find a method for satisfactory appraising and evaluating the content of cottonseed marketed for crushing purposes have been more or less continuous since cottonseed began to be important, but the variation both of quantity and condition of the constituents had presented obstacles to this attainment. In 1925 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics undertook, in response to requests from substantial factors in the industry and pursuant to its legal authority, to develop such a grading system. 'through its Division of Cotton Marketing, studies of the nature and uses of cottonseed and of the grading requirements of the industry were made and a grading system based upon the chemical composition of seed was devised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.