Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-01-01

pants WlCn the SOOu ones.
 The grower should select each year a few of the best plants in his field. saving the seed from them separately and planting it in a special plat for increase. Farmers who systematically follow this plan will soon gain a rep utation for the production of superior cotton.
 The associations of cotton growers in the Salt Rier valley should ar range each season with some of the best farmers who have uniform land to have their fields rogued, in order that a supply of pure seed shall be available for next years planting. Great care should be taken to have this superior seed ginned and stored under such conditions as to prevent it's getting mixed with other seed.
 AS coroborating all that other ex- perts have said regarding cotton, letter from the state entomologist Prof A. w. Morrill, to Secretary L. w. Alexander of the Yuma Commercial club is of much more than timely inter est and is worth reading every line of it. The letter follows:
 Phoenix, Ariz, Dec. P, 1913. MT. L. w. Alexander,
 Secretary Yuma County Commercial
 club.
 Yuma, Arizona
 Dear sir
 have your letter of December 2Oth, and take pleasure in sending you such information as I can concerning the matter of cotton growing in Arizona.
 Under separate cover I am sending you a copy of the Southwestern Stock man-Farmer, which has as it's leading article a paper written by MT. w. H. Knox, Secretary and Manager of the Salt River Valley Cotton Growers As sociation. This article is entirely re- liable with the exception of one error in the last paragraph for which I am responsible. This paragraph was writ ten by me from information received in a telephone conversation, and I be- lieve that I misunderstood the facts upon which the last sentence in the ar ticle is based. I expect that the last sentence should read as follows:
 Tn one instance 15 bales have al. ready been ginned from a 16-acre field and it is estimated that only about two-thirds of the crop has been picked
 The second article by MT. Barnes of the Southern Pacific Railroad is incor rect in it's reference to the resistance of Egyptian cotton to the boil weevil The statements apply, however, to the boil worm, which is already present in Arizona, and which will probably be the most conspicuous cotton pest in his state. The facts concerning the re lation of the cotton boil worm to Egypt and Upland varieties of cotton are correctly stated on page 10, in the first and second columns
 As to the reasons why the the far mers in Arizona should stick to Egyp- tian cotton, I would say that to my mind the first and most important req son is that it is the variety the value of which has been demonstrated for the arid Southwest. The several agents of the U. s. Department of Az riculture, who have been engaged in Investigating the cotton industry in the Southwest are all agreed in the conclusion that Egyptian cotton is the most profitable variety for this sec tion. All who are interested in the az ricultural development of Aizona should appreciate the significance of these conclusions and should not as sume the responsibility of possibly ruining the present favorable pros poets because of personal views, based upon experience in eastern cotton growing states and which are not sup. ported by practical results in the ariC Southwest. The agents of the Depart ment of Agriculture have no other concern in regard of the variety of cotton which they recommend than the actual difference in profits shown by their experiments. I am sure that | they all feel as I do that the most prof | table variety of cotton should be grown. It is in a large measure . question whether the individual shal decide what variety is most profitable here or whether we shall except the results of careful eXpriments and per
 nit the vast majority to decide wha variety of cotton shall be grown. Any one who is familiar with cotton knows or ought to know that it would be very
 undesirable to attempt to grow more 1 than one variety in Arizona. A dange
 n individuals following their whimi and being permitted to turn" for a dol lar at every opportunity regardless O. the effect on the community is illustra