Arizona republican., 1919-12-11
COTTON INSTITUTES WITH TWO-DAY PROGRAMS TO BE. AT GILBERT AND CHANDLER
Many Strong and Interesting Features Arranged for the Meetings to Be Held Friday and Saturday, Decem- Der 12 and 13-Speakers We'll Qualified to Talk on Cotton Are Scheduled - Discussions Are to Follow Each Address-Many Expected to Attend

Committees of the farm bureau at Gilbert and Chandler are uniting to put on cotton institute at those places, on Friday and Saturday of this week. They have arranged an excep- .lonally strong speaking program, while feature of the institute will be Inc round table discussions led by local men, in which any problem of interest may be brought up and discussed from the floor.
 The speaking program at Chandler is as follows:
 Friday, December 12
 10 a. m. Cotton investigations, C. J. II a. m. Cotton Diseases, D. C.. George
 ?. m. Experiences in Cotton Crow ing, E. W. Hudson,
 D. m. Round Table.
 Saturday. December 13
 10 a. m. Cotton Breeding. H. G. Wells.
 10:S0 a. m. Cooperative marketing, w. s. Stevens.
 II a. m. Cotton Insects, D. c. Mote. - p. m. Growing Methods, S. H. Hastings.
 p. m. The Labor Situation. c. Grant Jones.
 3;30 D. m. Round Table.
 The Gilbert program is essentially the same, each of the foregoing speak CTS having promised 10 appear and to deliver the same talks. The hours for the different talks at Gilbert are as follows:
 Friday, December 12
 10 a. m. F. w. Hudson.
 II a. m. C. Grant Jones.
 D. m. D. C. George.
 D. m. II. C. Wells. $50 D. m. Round Table
 Saturday, December 13
 10 a. m. s. II. Hastings.
 II a. m. C. Grant Jones.
 D. m. c. J. Cling
 2S0 D. m. w. s. Stevens.
 D. m. Round Table
 Other Speakers Coming
 Tn addition to the above it is alto gether likely that the committees in charge Will be able to secure the ser wees of other speakers of wide repute in the Arizona Egyptian cotton busi ness. Word has just been received in- dlcatlng a possibility that o. r. Cook and Walter P. Swingle will be in the vicinity soon and a special effort is being made to secure the attendance or these men, who are quite we'll known 10 valley farmers as two of the mer having a great deal to do with the establishment of the industry, botl having been connected with the gov. ernnents activities in that line fol he past IS years.
 The men on the speaking program. are too well known to need much in. rQduction. Hudson has had more ex. 2erience in the growing of Arizona Egypuon cotton than probably any Other one man. His connection witt me Sacaton station as superintendent extended through period of severa years during which growing method, applicable to this region were worked out. He furnished the technical knowl. edge of cotton in the establishment ol the big interests of the Southwest Cot. lon company and has since been rais. Ing cotton for himself on a big scale.
 Knows Cotton Insect Pests II U. C. Mote. state entomologist. i. ' intimately acquainted with the insec pests which are more or less detrimen tal to the cotton business of this ri rlnity. As he aptly puts it, "the mos serious insect pests of our cotton ar, hose we haven't got" and to Mote fall, the duty of enforcing the quarantin. law which has so effectively protecte, ls thus far from boil weevil and pinl boil worm. D. C. George. plant pa
 
 office knows more about the diseas, Of our cotton than any one else. H. Till particularly discuss black arm O lngular leaf spot and root rot
 II. G. Wells has long been connecte, with the work in breeding cotton wi.icl s carried out under the supervision o r. F. kearney, well known to valle, ranchers. Wells personally selects th plants from which the choicest see, lof the valley comes, and to him mus go much of the credit for making tn Salt River valley the only coton grow ing district of appreciable size 1vhicl has altogether a pure variety of see, without danger of admixture or de I terioration.
 New Sacaton Superintendent
 $. II. Hastings succeeded Hudson a { superintendent of the Sacaton station his previous connections having bee entered around the growing of bot shart and long staple cotton in th southern states. Hastings is wel