The goal of this test is to determine if outside long term cotton bale storage practices under certain conditions are equivalent to storage in a CCC approved warehouse. Final variables being tested are standard HVI properties (particularly color) and textile spinning and selected dying performance measurements. Materials being tested is Pima cotton as grown, harvested, ginned, baled, covered and stored by J. G. Boswell Co. of the San Joaquin Valley of California. All production, harvesting and ginning practices will be identical for both the test and control bales. Storage time will be one year prior to textile processing. All bales will have been in storage for approximately nine months at the time of this report.