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The phrase is fair to middlin. It refers to ....

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awhtx

03-19-2008 15:02:35




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grades of cotton. My family has used this phrase as long as I can remember (and I'm 54). I recall reading somewhere a few years ago that the phrase came from the old days of cotton. When a farmer hauled his cotton to the gin to sell it was graded by the gin operator. "Fair" and "Middlin" were 2 of the grades so "fair to middlin" was a grade of cotton probably on the lower end of the grading scale.

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Spencer Chaffin

03-19-2008 23:28:02




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 Re: The phrase is fair to middlin. It refers to .... in reply to awhtx, 03-19-2008 15:02:35  
Fair to midline is a cotton grade as the below others are. This was determined after the cotton was ginned. A sample was taken, the lint pulled between the fingers of both hands, to determine the length of the fibers. Also the tint [ color] and cleannest of the fibers were involved.

strict high midling ==== higher price high midling ==== midling===== = fair to midling===== == strict low midling===== ==lower price Then if water damaged and dirty the price got lower

But it has been a long time since them cotton fields back home!!!!!

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