Arizona republican., 1921-02-20

partment of agriculture. in co-opera- ton with the Tempe Cotton Exchanges adopted plan which has been followed up to the present time. This involved the roguing each year by agents of the department of a limited acreage, the product from which was ginned in a separate run, and the resulting seed was sacked and labeled. This seed was planted the following year in solid block of land in the Tempe district, and TO other seed was planted in this block. The seed from this increase block, suf- ficient for about 75.000 acres, was used for general planting throughout the valley. in the second year after the roguing was done.
 This year, owing to the great in- crease of acreage and the extensive re- planting necessitated by the unfavor able spring weather. the increase seed from the Tempe district has proved to- | tally inadequate and the farmers had to resort to the oil mills for seed Tor replanting. Much of this seed was not only of low viability but contained certain percentage of short staple and of hybridized seed, and as result off type plants have appeared in fields all ! over the valley, so that it is serious question where 60 turn for pure plant ing seed for next years crop.
 | To meet the new conditions the l planting seed program must be broad ened and modified. The following sug- gestions are offered:
 "E1. Some existing, or perhaps new | organization of cotton -rowers, vale, wide in scope, should formally cooper ate with the federal and state agricul- tural authorities in all matters relat- l ing to planting seed supply, and should assume all expense incident to the work.
 g. Rogued seed will be furnished by a limited acreage, preferably not more | than 100 acres, which will be rogued each year by experts detailed by ths l federal department or the state station or by both institutions CO., o-operatively.
 "3 Inspected seed will be furnished | by planting the first year after roguins, 1 the seed from the rogued field or fields in one or more blocks within which no other seed is planted, these blocks be- ing surrounded by fields grown from inspected seed of the preceding year. "A Certified seed will be furnished by planting the second year after rog- uing at least four districts with noth- ing but inspected seed. These districts will each be large enough to utilize. the full capacity of a 10 stand gin which
 shall handle only certified seed. As suming the capacity of each Of these
 gins to be sufficient ot furnish seed fol
 planting 75,0o0 acres, a supply of certi-
 fled seed sufficient to plant & commer'
 cial acreage of 100000 will be available
 the third year after roguing. It vii
 require several years to have the piaf 1 outlined above in full operation.
 In order to adapt Dr. Kearney's pro
 gram to the existing conditions ai
 nearly as possible for the 1921 season
 the Maricopa County Farm bureau eX
 ecutive committee, after advising witt
 state and federal authorities, looked Iii the available seed which would qualif, ; under the description of certified see,
 outlined in Dr. Kearney's statement
 Tue only existing fields proved to b
 those owned by members of the Temp
 Cotton Exchange, the Goodyear brancl of the Southwest Cotton company, an' : portion of the Litchfield ranch of tn Southwest Cotton company
 The characteristics of the cottol from which this seed was to be ob tained were: first solid blocks of cot i, ton, planted only from inspected seei as described above in Dr. kearney quotat ton: second, entire freedom iron
 any contamination such as short stapl
 plants of Pima hybrids: third. facili
 ties for ginning in gins which Woul'
 handle only this sort of cotton with Il
 danger whatever of gin mixing wit
 cotton from oil mill sources; fourti
 seed of good germination and with n ' apparent disqualifying features. Y The pure seed committee appointe by the farm bureau, in turn appointe a subcommittee which should i1spet { all fields that qualified as capable /, possible certification. Repr-~@.l,--.iT iT portions of each of these fields wer 2 inspected by this sub committee and T evidence of contamination was foun Q in any field which is being certifie
 for 1921 planting. This sub -committe
 was accompanied by Dr. Kearney in a it's work. In the name of the sub-con ' mittee, H. c. Heard. county agricultur = agent, a member of both the seed con
 mittee and the sub- committee, wa
 asked to certify the seed which m
 the requirements.
 The term "certification'' can be mao to mean almost anything in connectit