Bingham Bulletin | 1938-02-18 | Page 3 | Model Hayloft Us Placed in U. S. Farm Building; Seek to Standardize Crops

Model Hayloft Is Placed in U. S. Farm Building; Seek to Standardize Crops fibers, lint and seed will be studied, as a part of the expanded federal-state federal-state cotton research programs. These studies and tests will be related re-lated to practical problems in the principal branches of the cotton enterprise en-terprise from the production of raw cotton through to the finished products prod-ucts of cotton manufacture. The building contains a fireproof cotton warehouse In which can be stored more than 1,000 bales of cotton cot-ton to be used chiefly in preparation of copies of the official standards. It is the new headquarters for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics' South-wide cotton market news service. The most modern farm laboratory in the world has been opened by the Department of Agriculture in Washington Wash-ington in an effort to raise the standards of American farm products, prod-ucts, writes a Washington United Press correspondent in the New York Herald Tribune. In the new standardization building build-ing are located the bureaus directing direct-ing regulatory and marketing agencies dealing with the principal farm products. Technological and economic research scientists also are housed in the air-cooled structure. struc-ture. It also houses a modern hayloft a combination standardization research re-search laboratory and warehouse with glass north front and scientific devices for analyzing quality and factors in hay. Cotton experts prepare standards for use in domestic and foreign trade. The appeal board of review examiners, the final authority in the interpretation of standards, has its classing rooms in the building. Along with cotton standardization' and classical work, the physical and chemical properties of cotton