Washington telegraph., 1927-07-01
u. 5. TO ISSUE NEW
COTTON REPORT
Offices to BE Opened at Atlanta, Ga.
and Dallas, Texas
ATLANTA OFFICE OPENS TO-DAY
Reports viii BE Made On First Day
of November, December, Janu-
airy, March and May.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-Reports
on the commercial grades and
staples of cotton ginned in two typi-
cal districts Of the cotton belt will
be issued beginning October !, by
the bureau of agriculture eco
Monies, United States department
of agriculture, under authority of an
act of the last congress. Other re-
ports will be made on the first day
of November, December, January.
March and May, as Of the first day
of the preceding month. II is plan
ned TO make a recoId of the grade
and staple length of the cotton as it
is ginned.
The work will be under the
general direction of DR.. b. Young
blood, leader of research projects
of the division of cotton marketing.
w. b. Lanham, formerly connected
with the Texas Agriculture Expert
ment Station, has been appointed
agriculture economist Immediately
in charge of the grade and staple
studies and reports in the bureaus
cotton marketing division.
Mr.. Lanham left Washington to-
day for Atlanta, Georgia, where an
office of the bureau is to be estab.-
lished on July ! for carrying on the
work in the Atlantic area. A SINH
lar office is 10 be established at
Dallas, Texas, about August /. Ar
rangements are to be made with a
large number of ginners in Georgia
and in the dry land cotton shedding
areas of southwest Oklahoma and
The Panhandle of Texas. Samples
will be obtained representative of
the growihs Of the cottonS of these
areas. These will form the basis
of the bureau monthly reports.
The reports will carry informa-
ton on the commercial grades and
staple lengths only, but an addi-
tional study will also be made of
other factors such an color, leaf,
trash and other elements of charac-
ter in cotton lint. Specialists in cot
ton chasing of the government are
to be assigned TO this work. The
Atlanta CLASSIFICATION office is TO be in
charge of Porter !. Barnes formerly
of Georgia, who is throughly
familiar with cotton production in
the Atlantic area. The personnel
of the Dallas office will be an
nOunced soon.
The information which these
studies will provide has been sought
for a number of years by producers.
ginners and the trade. The purpose
is to procure unbiased government
estimates of the cottons produced
by grades and staples. These esti-
mates will indicate to all concerned
something more definite as to the
spinning utility and market value of
the cottons grown each year. 1t is
response to this demand for more
exact information as to the quality
of the American cotton crop, to-
gether with that of the carry-over
on August of each year, that these
estimates and studies are being
made.
II is believed the system will
prove beneficial alike to producers.
manufacturers and consumers of
cotton by giving greater assurance
that the market quotations shall re-
present the true value of cotton as
normally determined by supply and
demand. II will also encourage
growers TO study the relative mar
ket values of the different grades
and staples and, in fact. to produce
the grades and staples most desired
by the spinning world and which
pay best.
Establishment of the Atlanta and
Dallas offices is the first step in
what is proposed will develop into
comprehensive system of gather
ing and disseminating grade and
staple estimates for the entire cot
ton belt. Available appropriations
at this time will limit the work TO
the two areas named, which have
Deen selected as representative of
typical sections of the belt, but ex-
panSion of the system to other re-
gionS will probaly be made next
year. The ultimate aim is to issue
reports on The grades and staples
both in the crop and in the carry
over on August I, the end of the