Arizona republican., 1922-04-07
MANY THINGS REQUIRED TO
STABILIZE PIMA COTTON IN.
THIS VALLEY ARE OUTLINED
Planting OF Pure Seed, Segregation, Classifying, Uni
form Grading, Best Ginning, Balng, Storing Are
Urged In Resolutions Adopted Yesterday At Con-
ference Held Under the Auspices Of Arizona
Industrial Congress

CHASING as to grade, staple and type.
Z. Proper warehousing. or other
protection TO prevent country dam
age.
5. Intelligent compressing not in
furious to this type of cotton.
9. The delivery to the manufactur-
er Of cotton in well covered bales in
desirable condition, equal to that of
any cotton placed on the market.
We believe that to put the forego-
ing program of production and dis
tribution into practical operation, and
to market the cotton successfully
that as large a proportion as possible
of the cotton produced in this section
should be handled through a system
of orderly cooperative commodity
marketing.
We wish to express. our apprecia-
tion of the attendance at this con-
ference of Messrs. Scofield, Meadows,
Kearney and Willis of the depart
ment of agriculture, and to express
our thanks for their constructive ad-
dresses.
We further wish to thank the Ari-
Zona Industrial congress for their
courtesy in providing for meeting
place for this conference, and to its
chairman. P. G. Spilsbury, for his ef-
fective efforts in this connection.
The five separate resolutions
adopted by the conference were as
follows.
The Variety Grown
1t IS recommended that the pro-
duction of Pima cotton be continued
until there is satisfactory evidence
that some other variety can be grown
more profitably. The fundamental
Importance of growing only one kind
of cottonsis recognized and it is be-
lieved that haphazard experimental
tion with other varieties is bound to
result in mixture of seed and loss to
the community of it's reputation for
producing uniform and superior
cotton. 1t is strongly urged that if
at any time in the future change to
some other variety should be deemed
advisable, the substitution should be
made in an orderly manner and with
due precaution TO avoid mixture of
seed.
The Planting Seed
Recognizing the fundamental inn
portance Of pure planting seed as a
requisite TO the production of uni
form cotton of superior quality. we
recommend the continuation of the
present method of maintaining purity
of the planting seed by roguing seed
fields. increasing the seed from the
rogued fields under proper condition
of isolation and distribution of the
seed from the increased fields to the
growers under certification.
We also recommend that the cost
OF providing a supply of certified
planting seed adequate for all con-
tingencies be distributed equitably
among the cotton growers of the Salt
River valley.
Uniformity In the Bale
We recognize that under existing
conditions much of the cotton pro-
duced has reached the consumer in
bales the contents OF which lack uni
forrnity: in other words, that in many
cases all of the cotton in the bale is
not exactly like the sample.
We recommend the inauguration
of a system of field segregation, gin
inspection and bale certification TO
the end that the individual bale shall
be uniform not only as to the grade
but also as to the length, strength
and type. a system of field inspec-
ton should be inaugurated and a
number of inspectors employed,
whose duty it shall be to locate and
mark off in the field spots where, for
one reason or another the cotton is
likely to be of different character
from that of the rest of the field. in
order that the cotton from such spots
may be picked, ginned and baled sep
arately. This inspection should fol-
low the cotton through the gins in
order to make sure that no mixing
of the separately picked cotton takes
place in ginning, and to guard against
the mixing of badly ginned cotton in
the same bale with that which has
been properly ginned All bales of
cotton which have picked and ginned
under conditions approved by the in
spector, should be entitled to a cer-
tificate stating that, to the best of
his knowledge and belief, the con-
tents of said bale are of uniform
character.
Comprising Pima Cotton
We recognize the importance of
making provisions whereby 1t may
be possible for Pima cotton to reach
the manufacturer in the best possible
condition. To this end we favor the
erection of a central compress here
in the Salt River valley which may
be under the supervision of the asso-
ciated growers and which may turn
out a distinctive type of bale. We
believe that such a compress would
result in material saving to the in
dustry through better transportation
and storage rate and that the COM
mercial value of our product would
be relatively higher than it now is
under existing methods of compress
sion in transit.
Promoting Use of Pima Cotton
We recognize that the law of sup
ply and demand is supreme and in
exorable and that it governs the
price of Pima cotton as well as Of