7 CFR § 28.306 - Over inch staple.

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title: "7 CFR § 28.306 - Over\ \n inch staple."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "28.306"
section_name: "Over\ \n inch staple."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "COMMODITY STANDARDS AND CONTAINER REQUIREMENTS"
part_number: "28"
part_name: "COTTON CLASSING, TESTING, AND STANDARDS"
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regulatory_source: "22 FR 10930, Dec. 28, 1957, unless otherwise noted."
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# 28.306 Over 
 inch staple.

Cotton which is more than thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in length of staple but is not exactly one of the measurements specified in § 28.302, shall be designated by that one of such measurements which comes nearest under its true measurement.

[22 FR 10930, Dec. 28, 1957. Redesignated at 49 FR 28391, July 12, 1984]