Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 2024) |
Title 7 - Agriculture |
Subtitle B - Regulations of the Department of Agriculture |
Chapter I - Agricultural Marketing Service (Standards, Inspections, Marketing Practices), Department of Agriculture |
SubChapter A - Commodity Standards and Standard Container Regulations |
Part 28 - Cotton Classing, Testing, and Standards |
Subpart C - Standards |
Official Cotton Standards of the United States for Length of Staple |
§ 28.302 - Terms of designation.
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§ 28.302 Terms of designation.
The length of staple of any cotton shall be designated by that one of the following terms which expresses its measurement in inches and fractions of an inch in accordance with § 28.301:
“Below 13⁄16; 7⁄8; 29⁄32; 15⁄16; 31⁄32; 1; 11⁄32; 11⁄16; 13⁄32; 11⁄8; 15⁄32; 13⁄16; 17⁄32; 11⁄4; 19⁄32; 15⁄16; 111⁄32; 13⁄8; 113⁄32; 17⁄16; 115⁄32; 11⁄2; 117⁄32; 19⁄16; 119⁄32; 15⁄8; 121⁄32; 111⁄16; 123⁄32; 13⁄4; and upward in like manner in gradations of thirty-seconds, disregarding any fraction less than a thirty-second.”