Arizona republican., 1914-04-16


 That is too large tract 10 rogue but it should be inspected by an eX pert on horseback and al inferior plants should be destroyed.
 The best seed should be avail able" said Mir. Swingle, "at a price not exceeding that of the poorest seed It should not cost more than the seed sold to the oil mills. It costs d good deal more to produce but it is to the interest of every grower in the valley that temptation to use a poorer seed should be re- moved. The growers should assess l themselves so much per bale to meet the greater expense of getting first | class seed. think the business men should contribute to such expense for , they too are interested in the main
 tenance of q standard grade of cot , ton in the valley.
 The short cotton growers are in three compact groups and it is 1 equally important to them to pre- serve the purity of seed and l would i take as great pains to protect the short cotton man. though l believe i he is making a mistake. A mixture of Egyptian cotton with his short cotton would produce q better grade of cotton than he is raising. but it
 is a grade which could not be mar keted for the mills are not prepared to handle it.
 But I would especially urge upon all the growers and the business men to stick to Egyptian cotton. You are raising the best cotton in the world here now. and you will soon create d demand for it greater than you can : supply. It can be sold to the mills of New England, Great Britain, Aus tria. Russia. Germany and even Spain
 The supply of first class cotton is limited and getting smaller. It will
 come into use for automobile tires
 aeroplane wings. yacht sails. mail bags. coin bags tents and many oth- CT fabrics in which strength and lightncSs are required. The man ufacturers of some of the articles into whose manufacture it would en- l fer would advertise the kind of cot | ton. the locality of it's production
 Many New England spinners are now talking of the Salt River valley. of 1 which they had never heard until
 they saw the cotton produced here
 At dinner of the Arkwright club at the Parker House. Boston. where rep resentatives of the department met
 the leading spinners of New England.
 the Salt River valley cotton WAS
 much discussed. l think that the
 board of trade should contribute to
 the fund for the sending of AIr Dor
 man to England. The board could
 not give the valley q more effective
 advertisement"
 Egypt, said Mir. SwinGlc. does not
 grow the kind of cotton raised in the
 Salt River valley. There is no other
 country where it is grown. And" said Mir. Swingle. you are going to
 have something still better We have developed a still higher grade of cot
 ton at Sacaton by the process of seed
 selection. The fiber is an inch and
 three-auarters in length. while that ,, of the best grade Egyptian cotton is
 only an inch and half in length Our new cotton lacks only uniformity now, but We will secure that and
 then the valley will have a kind of cotton superior to any that has eve,
 been produced in the world.
 Growers can afford to produce I high grade cotton here. but they cannot afford to raise short staple cotton on irrigated land. There is
 nothing in store here for the short cotton grower. His cotton has no value as an advertisement There is
 no future for it. Nothing can hap pen to surprise him except a drop in 1 prices to which short staple cotton is l always susceptible. It may drop 1 again 10 l-3 cents q pound which no grower on irrigated land can stand. But the grower on the s1o an acre land of the cotton belt can stand II. The growers of the long l staple cotton here are without com 1 petition. They can never have any competition. There are few places 1 in the world where the climate and soil arc favorable to long staple cot ton. The market for it Is world wide
 Mir. Hudson said that the Indians of the various reservations of the valley would raise about 400 acres this year. Afr. MacLachlan, who has been over the valley, said that the crop was in excellent shape and that the stand is generally good
 Mir Swingle was asked regarding the recent Associated Press dispatch describing the destruction ut New York of lot of Egyptian cotton seed being shipped to Arizona. MT. Swingle said that it was found to be infested with pink boil wcevil. q pest or comparatively recent origin. re- sponsible in q large measure for the deterioratlon of cotton in the coun- tries along the Mediterranean There is not much danger, said Mir Swingle. Of infested seed passing the federal authorities. but he said he was fear ful that travellers from the valley. no 1I lrft,