Arizona republican., 1920-03-20

able to get only limited quantity of
seed
Thirty pounds to the acre has been
the maximum in the valley. but grow
ers are being urged to plant from 20
to % pounds to the acre this year The
output of seed of the Tempe exchange
and Southwest Cotton company, or
81 900 tons. at % pounds to the acre,
will seed 10000 acres. At 20 pounds
to the acre, more than 100000 acres
can be seeded.
Hasty Planting Injuries
"A report has gained considerable
currency that there will be 175,O0O
acres planted to cotton in the Phoenix
district. but the chamber of commerce
has been unable to confirm by seed
estimates the report. 1t is known, how
ever, that the most of the $1,000 tons
of seed at the Tempe exchange will be
planted in this district. The South
west company has shipped seed suffi-
cient to plant the 10000 acres in the
Imperial valley.
1.-THE planting season started March
IL, and there has been a large acreage
seeded to date. Reports from the field
are that some of this cotton will not
get good stand because of haste in
planting, due TO the enthusiasm of
growers, spurred on by quotations
which have reached $1.10 a pound in
Boston. BE careful is the word of
wisdom of the experts. The govern
ment developed. Pima as to strength
and length. 1t is the duty of the
grower TO develop a larger boil and in
consequence a larger cotton production
to the acre. The good stand and in
creased acreage production will win
this year and this cannot be done ex-
cept through care and culture
1.-The acreage of growers who are
members of the cotton association has
been doubled in the Phoenix district.
Others have broken away in part or en-
tirely from forage crops and food
stuffs.
Adequate Ginning Facilities
MANY new gin houses will have to
be built to care for the crop in the Salt
River valley. In districts lying remote
from Phoenix, headquarters of the
Arizona Pima cotton industry of the
world, the association and large cotton
companies will see that adequate gin
ming facilities are supplied to the pro-
portion of cotton raised
Some time ago the Imperial valley
raised Pima, but its short staple gins
could not handle the crop and the
growers quit discouraged and returned
to Durango and other shorter staple
cottons. The Southwest Cotton COM
pany has made arrangements for suit
able gins for the 10000 acre crop in the
Imperial valley.
yuma decided only few days ago
to increase it's area of Pima cotton to
5000 acres in view of the sharp adj
vance in the market to $1.10 pound
and the announcement that the Ari-
IONA Pima output falls 90 per cent
short of the demand for such cotton in
the United States and that this 80 per
cent must be supplied by Egypt.
Control Rests in Arizona
"In order to command the market
over Egypt there must be raised a
quarter of a million bales OF Arizona
Pima year. 1t is estimated that the
crop this year, in the Phoenix district
alone, will be 100000 bales. There are
500 pounds to the bale and the quota
ton today is s1.1O a pound. That would
make the 100000 bales worth $685.
600, 900. Twenty million dollars was
the value of the 1919-192O crop, figured
on a basis of IS cents a pound.
so great has been the demand for
long staple cotton that the last report
received by the chamber OF commerce
from Egypt said: ON one day $4,000
bales were shipped from Egypt to
America, making a total shipped to
America for the cotton season, which
starts August 1, of 232.091 bales, as
against 1898 for the 191S-191s season
and 1880 bales in 1917-191s.'
This cotton might have been raised
in America; or, to be exact, in Arizona
and surroundings. The control of the
long staple market in America rests
with the grower. The most of the cot
ton shipped to AmeDica went to supply
a demand which could not be met by
growers of Arizona Pima"