Arizona republican., 1917-10-06

1 to work out scheme whereby a fam | ily might be placed on each 40-acre tract of it's land to work that land and l he predicted 900 acres in cotton in l this section because people want to l get in while the getting is good.
 l Mir Butterworths paper, winch he was officially permitted to give by the I Bureau of Markets and Standards, in ! fall, is as follows:
 Expert Pays Pima Tribute
 1 I appreciate the honor conferred upon | me in being asked to address this body l of businessmen on a matter which IS | very interesting to me and a matter l which l feel sure is of interest to all Of 1 you. as the welfare of all businesses and professions is affected more or less | by the success or failure of tl.e growth of any commodity within it's adjacent l territories. The matter on which l shall i address you for few minutes is: The | comparative lengths of this season s | Pima variety of cotton with Sakeliare- | dies and Sea Island cotton
 [ The bureau of markets, agricultural 1 department of Washington, assigned 1 me to the duties of making a survey of 1 the Salt River valley and the chasing l of the Pima variety of cotton this sea- l son, all of which is being ginned at ] Tempe, Ariz. Being familiar with the | grades and staples Of last season $ 1 varieties of Yuma and Pima and bring ! ing with me the grade types and staple 1 types of both varieties, also some sam | pies of imported Egyptian varieties. l | looked forward with a degree of inter- est and I might say, anxiety for the first ginning of cotton, particularly the 1 Pima variety On the 27th of Septem- Der there were nine bales ginned; these nine bales belonging to three different parties and grown in different parts of the valley. From the break of the first bale in pulling | was favorably inn pressed and the good impression was further verified with the whole nine bales. I found 8 of the nine bales to measure equal to our type No. 1, which has a measuring length of1 1l-lo to 1A One bale was 15s though tfus same bale had parts measuring ll-lb This condition in a bale sometimes pre- ! vails though not often. l would state here that while l have had forty years experience in staple cotton l do not claim to be infallible, and was anxious to have others pull it as we'll and get their opinion. though 1 felt practically sure that these lengths were correct
 
 to Washington, and sent q sample of each one there also. Learning that was scheduled to give you this short address. I wired Washington for the committees report; the answer came as follows: Cotton committee agrees with your opinion of samples with the exception of 1903 which they call ] 3s. The report was very gratifying to me as l know this committee is composed of specialists in cotton chasing, whose ability as staple judges is unquestioned each one being man of many years experience in staple sections prior tc entering the service of the department and as any artisan or tradesman ol professional man who is reasonable well grounded in whatever study ol work he may be engaged in, can readily tell with association the merits of an- other, so l say what 1 do regarding these gentlemen without fear of con- tradiction.
 Now before going any further | wisf to quote from few gentlemen who are autohorities in their own specia branch. Ln bulletin No 359 "Compar- ative Spinning Tests Of the different grades of Arizona Egyptian with Ses Island and Sakellaridies Egyptian Cot tons by Mir Fred Taylor, cotton tech nologist, and William S. Dean, assistant in cotton grading, the following i: stated regarding the waste. After mak' ing comparisons which are fully de ! scribed, these are their deductions: EX- tra Arizona Egyptian shows 5.13 pei cent less waste than Fancy Sea Island Choice Arizona Egyptian shows 6.S' per cent less waste than Good Sakel- 1..,. .,.l. DV1 r1 Egyptian shows 6.3S per cent less vast than Fully Good fair Sakellaridie. Egyptian Medium Arizona Egyptian shows TOT per cent less waste than Tai Sakellaridies Egyptian
 I would have you bear in mind thes' tests were made from cotton grown il 1914 and the tests made during thu summer of 1915. The comparisons wer' made from cottOns obtaining the fol lowing length:
 Arizona Egyptian .......:....... 1H Sea Island ............... lJ-I SakellaridieS Egytian 17-l
 These were at a time when as l un | derstand the Pima cotton was so to say in an embryonic state, the Arizon; Egyptian cotton mentioned was tn 1 Yuma variety.
 Regarding the tensile strength of tn ,-s Arizona Egyptian cotton, l am incline' to think the individual fibre test show the Arizona Egyptian greater than tn Sea Island. I do not wish to make thl as positive statement but 1 am in clined to think am right in what l say
 In another interesting extract iron this bulletin relative to the difficultie of introducng new variety of cotton they say: The manufacturer usual, secures a contract for goods before the, are manufactured, but when offerin: a new kind of cotton, difficulties ire quently are met with, from the buye or converter, who when placing a con tract or an order for fine goods, spe cifies the kind of cotton required, tha is-American, Egyptian or Sea Island In large number of instances on clotl orders, the warp required is of tn American cotton and the filling O Egyptian or vice versa The grade 0 cotton used is, of course. at the dis erection of the manufacturer, provides