Arizona republican., 1921-11-13
Peril of Mixina Cotton Type.

A paper by pr. T. H. Kearney, the foremost authority in this country on the growing of long saple cotton which appears in The Republican this morning should be read. studied and needed by every lotion grower in the Salt River valley.
 Dr. Kearney warns growers against the intro iuction of new types which result only in con- animation and the destruction of the distinctive aess which our Pima cotton has attained and from which now only temporarily recognition in the form if higher prices is witheld only by abnormal con- Iitions
 Dr. Kearney deals more particularly with the ,o-caled Delta cotton as one be avoided type which at its best comes barely within the elassif- aton long staple cotton and he meets fully every argument which it's advocates have put forward in avor of it's introduction.
 The threat to introduce other varieties than Pima into this valley is by means a one. rhe Republican for years has opposed this admix- ure-before our long staple cotton had been given recognition that has since been accorded it. Even short staple was proposed to be planted here ;hiefly by persons from the south and who were amiar only with the growing of short staple. Small treas were then planted in different parts of the falley.
 We then pointed out that one of the disadvan- ages short staple cotton if 1t could be successfully ,rown here, the world wide competition it would rave to meet and which often in the past had held he price of American to ruinously low figures whereas there was but small of the worlds urface adaptable to American Egyptian cotton which lad been fostered in the valley and has since been developed into the present Pima variety.
 pr. Kearney pursues this argument in favor of ,ima aganist the Delta type which be grown ,ver such wide the south that the Salt River alley if devoted to Delta would be thrown into competition with territory while now the growers of Pima find competition only in the re- s,tricted delta of the Nile. The where this iuperior grade of cotton be grown never npply he demand for 1t under normal conditions
 The abnormal conditions which give to Delta" ts present abnormal prices are explained by pr. xearney. And he further points out that there is Delta" cotton and Delta" cotton; that though both Ire superior length fiber short staple cotton he Delta of one section. largely due to marketing coalitions is bringing the present abnormal prices while the Delta of other regions does not Thus, Delta grown here. there could be assurance that would meet with greater favor than the so-called Delta of South Carolina which though equal quality o the cotton of the Mississippi delta. brings prices.
 There is disposition the part of the govern nent, the cotton associations any individual to dictate the growers variety cotton they .han raise. but to urge them. if change Is to ,e made in the type grown in this valley. that 1t be made complete that there may be only variety n valley. The spottng of the valley with differ lent types would result at last in mongrei and inferior type.
 The sensible thing that seems to be done is to hccept the proposition of the government if change bf type is desirable let tests made of the dif rerent types proposed Sacaton under government supervision. If these tests it appears that one of the types superior that be adopted by the growers whole.
 One of the strong points of the advocates of Pima cotton the Salt River valley is the present ma .hnery which has been assembled for the preserva- ion of purity of seed That of course would be destroyed by the introduction another, any other ype. The greater, then. too would be the exposure If the cotton this valley to the ravages of cotton pests which have annihated the long staple cotton industry of the southeast, and which yearly ending their operations throughout the entire cotton growing region from Texas to the Atlantic.
 Our growers also have before them the warning experiences of the farmers of the Yuma and the mpeial valleys.
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