---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2121"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2121"
heading: "Cotton ginning investigations; publication of results; cooperation with Federal and State departments and agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2121"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Cotton Research and Promotion"
---

# §2121. Cotton ginning investigations; publication of results; cooperation with Federal and State departments and agencies


The [Secretary](/usc/7/2116.md?p=a) of Agriculture is authorized to investigate the ginning of [cotton](/usc/7/2116.md?p=c); to establish and maintain experimental ginning plants and laboratories; and to make such tests, demonstrations, and experiments, and such technical and scientific studies in relation to [cotton](/usc/7/2116.md?p=c) ginning as he shall deem necessary and to publish the results thereof, with a view to developing improved ginning equipment and encouraging the use of improved methods, and he may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any [person](/usc/7/2116.md?p=b), as he shall find to be necessary.


## Source credit

(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 203, § 1, 46 Stat. 248.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 424 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section was enacted as part of act Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 203, and not as part of the Cotton Research and Promotion Act which comprises this chapter.