Grade and staple of American-Egyptian cotton ginned, by States and United States, 1955-56. Grade and staple of upland cotton ginned in the United States, during specified periods, 1955-56 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Grade and staple of American-Egyptian cotton ginned in the United States, during specified periods, 1955-56. Grade index and average staple of upland cotton ginned in the United States, by States, crops of 1951-55 Tenderability of upland cotton ginned in the United States, 1943-55. State tables: Grade and staple of upland cotton ginned in Alabama, 1955-56 Grade and staple of upland cotton ginned, during specified periods, in Alabama and Arizona, 1955-56. 39 40 41 42 Grade and staple of upland cotton ginned, by districts, in Georgia and Louisiana, 1955-56. Grade and staple of American-Egyptian cotton in the carry-over, United Stateş, August 1, 1955. Carry-over, crop, supply and disappearance of upland cotton, by grade groupings, United States, 1937-56. Page 10-1 13-1 1 STATES OF AMERICA Cotton Quality Statistics, United States 1955-56 * Introduction This report contains information on the quality of cotton ginned during the 1955-56 season, and on the quality of cotton on hand in the United States on August 1, 1956. To facilitate comparison certain data contained in the reports for previous years are included. This information should be helpful to cotton growers and breeders and to merchants, consumers, research workers and others interested in the quality of the crop and the carry-over. Estimates of the quality of the ginnings for most of the States are based on the classification of samples representing approximately 10 percent of the crop of upland cotton. These samples were submitted by gins selected to represent a cross-section of the quality of total ginnings by districts and States. In the case of upland and American-Egyptian cotton in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and District 6 of Texas, where from 95 to 100 percent of ginnings is classed under another program, the total samples classed are adjusted to ginnings and used in preparing the estimates. The proportions of the various qualities found in the samples classed were applied to total ginnings as reported by the Bureau of the Census for upland and American-Egyptian cotton. For the purpose of preparing the estimates most cotton-producing States are divided into districts. Samples classed were weighted by ginning periods for all cotton-producing States as well as by districts for most cotton-producing States. The report for the carry-over includes statistics on the grade and staple of upland and American-Egyptian cotton and on the staple of cotton of foreign growth on hand in the United States on August 1, 1956. The bulk of the 1956 carry-over was cotton in CCC stocks (owned and held as collateral against outstanding loans). Estimates of the quality of this cotton in the carry-over were based on the grade and staple classification under which this cotton originally entered the government loan program. "Free stocks" of cotton in public storage and compresses were sampled and classed in every instance in which the cotton was segregated from CCC stock in such places of storage. Quality estimates for cotton stored at mills on August 1, 1956, were based on the classification reported by individual mills. Sample data for each State and for the principal types of storage were raised to correspond with the number of bales reported by the Bureau of the Census. The Official Cotton Standards for Grades of American Upland Cotton were revised effective August 15, 1953. The revision abolished the Middling Fair and Strict Good Middling standards for White cotton and all standards for Extra White cotton, and changed the remaining standards so as to reflect the characteristics of the recent cotton crops insofar as color, leaf and preparation are concerned. The tables in this report that contain figures on the tenderability of cotton on futures contracts indicate only the total quantities tenderable and untenderable. Throughout this report the official grade designations are abbreviated as follows: Good Middling, 3-G.M.; Strict Middling, 4-S.M.; Middling, 5-M.; Strict Low Middling, |