Arizona republican., 1920-12-10
Community Organization In Cotton Growing

growing but the first is purity of seed, matter pointed out in a statement The Republican yester- day morning by pr. O. F. Cook of the bureau of plant industry. United States Department of Agri- culture. Without pure seed there cannot be cotton of a high type, nor can there be uniform grade of cotton of lower type. There are not many distinct varieties cotton but there are many kinds of cotton. bearing different such as Delta which is only miscellaneous stock
 There is out by pr. Cook in his remarks as we'll in his bulletin Cotton Community Crop the difficulty of keeping seed pure when cotton is gnned in customs public gins, while it is easy under the system of private gins with which large plantations are equipped He instances the main tenance for so long a period of the high type of Sea Island cotton, fact due to private ginning.
 The industry in the Salt River Valley would hardly permit of private ginning that growers under an unorganzed plan could not derive the ad- vantage be gained from careful selection of seed Every community, therefor1, should be organized that plant selection may supervised by competent persons in the fields of all members of the organi- zation to the end that there might be the highest grade seed for all.
 We are speaking now of disorganization rather, unorganizaton where nominaIly single type of cotton is grown as in the Salt River Valley. Here without organization one-variety cotton, though no other type introduced, there will be degenera ton But degeneration will be greatly hastened if other types introduced for though might not be admitted the customs gins designed for the higher grade cotton, polInization would be effected by bees and insects. Then the de- generation would be much rapid and lower.
 The supposition that cotton runs out" is eous The running out" the result of deteriora ton because the absence of plant selection and pollinzaton If careful plant selection is fol- lowed and the cotton is kept free from the admixture of inferior types, the result will be higher of cotton. We have witnessed this pleasing effect in the development of the Pima variety in this valley In 1913 Lord Ktchner brought the attention British government the deterioration of cotton in Egypt. resulting from these causes the mixture of varieties disregard plant selection well as the neglect of considerable part of the growing At his suggestion the gov ernment aside 5,O00OOO pounds for the rehabli- tation the Egyptian cotton growing industry. But the war intervening the following year very little was accomplished toward that
 Quoting from pr. Cooks bulletin find another advantage enjoyed by one-variety cotton growing communities: Tn an unorganized community the farmer raises better cotton than his neighbors usually is forced to sell at the price to the local buyer The manufacturer pays for the high quality fiber but the difference is absorbed by the buying instead of being shared with the farmer. The more valuable bales contribute to the profit of buying and sorting the miscellaneous hog round bales accumulated by the local buyers many of whom do not know how to class cotton.
 rFaiure to give the farmer practical encourage ment in his effort to improve his crop is serious defect of the present commercial system, but ganized communities have standardized product even better than any of the running lots that can be made by sorting and matching the inferior fiber of mixed communities that the commercial problems are smplifed"
 Organization for one-variety cotton possesses another advantage, that of making it easier to organize for solution marketing problems which Dr. Cook says should not prove more difficult than those of the orange growers and raisin growers of California since we have the advantage of product that is less perishabe and less liable to fuctuate in price and popular demand