Arizona sentinel., 1917-10-11
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT FOR BUMPER COTTON CROP BOTH IN EGYPTIAN AND SHORT STAPLE IN EVERY SECTION
 OF YUMA PROJECT.

Unless all signs and all estimates made by those who ought to know what they talking about fa Yuma Pro- ects cotton crop this year will average the greatest yeo ever known in the United States.
 That is very broad statement to make, and yet it is made after careful study of the growing crop and after having interviewed growers from end of the pro- feet to the other remains be just how accurately these estimates have been made. Tn the September est mate given out by the government the general condition the cotton crop in the state of Arizona placed 85 cent of perfect crop This of took in every sec ton of the state that produces the eecy staple Had the estimate been confined wholly to Yuma Project the est mate would doubtless have been considerably higher for is fact beyond doubt that the crop is practically per feet throughout the entire project
 The Egyptian cotton fields enigma to those who are not familiar with the cultivation of that particular sta pe Not one in hundred properly estimate what it will yield by superficial examination of the various fields Personally confess that Egyptian cotton in the field until this year. but many of my friends have undertaken to produce that grade of cotton this year have given the matter unusual and careful consideration Many of the fields look like young forests of the stalks ex ceedng three inches diameter the ground and tower towards the sky for feet Some of these larger stalks have but few bo the ground but the top crop is in many instances prolific The rule for estimating the Egyp an cotton cop pracced for several years by the Indian department the Sacaoe reservation to measure off 25 feet in row and count all boS that have been formed 60 days before killing frost If these bolls will average 30 to the nea eet 75O in the 25oot row. with the rows four feet apart your cotton of the Egyptian variety will yield bale to the acre.
 It my privilege to accompany the Indian depart official who lays down this rule all over Yuma Project on the occasion when Commissioner Cato Sells in midst and without exception he found that every field amned would produce at least hree-q of bale of Egyptian cotton the and many of them will con- ciderably over that He maintained however that many our cotton growers have used entirely much water irrigated the wrong time This has caused much of the cotton to grow much wood instead of fruit But if the frost late this year the op crop will offset this and the result will be an enormous yield.
 The short staple crop is perfect as one coulo wish The fact of the matter s taking the snort staple crop whole it by far the finest cotton crop have seen grow anywhere and when that is said it that am perfectly familiar with the best sections of Texas Arkansas Louisiana and Mississippi None of those states can begin to compare their banner years the Shor staple crop sight and yet the crop would have been better had the planters taken proper of the crop However the average cotton grower Yuma Project this year never cultivated before and it is but natural that many of them have made great mistakes, the like o which will never be made again Cotton essentially dry weather crop It stand sunshine and less mOS ture than any of field products Our farmers grad uay learning that fact and year predict that every acre on Yuma Project will average close equal two haes the And the price next year will probably be inst as good it now which fortune to the who will cultivate his field scientifically.