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approach. A state quarantine is in effect, prohibiting cotton seed to enter the state 

 from anywhere excepting from Maricopa County, Arizona, and for experimental 

 purposes. 



Several varieties of cotton have been grown, but the principal ones are Upland 

 (short staple) and Durango (long staple). The growers are about evenly divided 

 iu growing the above varieties. 



Egyptian cotton (very long staple) has been grown in the southwest since 1902 in 

 an experimental way. The last few years it has been grown commercially and very 

 successfully. In Salt River Valley near Phoenix, Arizona, Egyptian is grown 

 exclusively, and with the price of this cotton about three times higher in value than 

 short staple and also ideal conditions for growing the Egyptian, I predict that the 

 time will come when it will be grown exclusively in this county. The yield is not 

 usually as large as short staple, but a bale and a half has been grown in this county 

 under direction of the United States Experimental Station located at Bard. It costs 

 :i 1 >< »n t the same to grow, but two or three times more to pick. 



A few growers have grown two bales of short staple to the acre, some a bale and a 

 half, and many one bale, which gives an idea wliat the possibilities are to those who 

 know the business. Present prices are 24 cents for short staple, 34 cents for Durango, 

 and 80 cents to $1.00 for Egyptian, and $50 a ton for cotton seed. 



California, according to the Census Bureau, United States Department of Com- 

 merce, has the highest yield per acre in the United States, or 400 pounds lint. The 

 average for the United States is 150 pounds. The average price per pound in Cali- 

 fornia in 1916 was 20 cents, or the highest price in the United States, the average 

 price being 19.1 cents. The average return for California was $80 per acre, while 

 the average return in the United States per acre was $29.79, therefore, California 

 leads again. This proves that California can and does produce the finest cotton in 

 the United States. 



There are thirty gins, two compresses, and three oil mills iu the valley and one oil 

 mill in Los Angeles, which is equipment enough to handle all the cotton which could 

 be produced on 300,000 acres. 



HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION DIFFICULTIES IN 

 INYO COUNTY. 



By E. M. Nordyke, County Horticultural Commissioner, Bishop, Cal. 



Horticultural inspection applied to a region that is in a sense comparatively new 

 in the development of its fruit industry as a merchantable factor, is by no means an 

 easy task. The production of first-class various deciduous fruits has long since 



passed the experimental stage in the Owens River 

 Valley. Fruit-tree planting dates back as far as 

 1877, clean fruit being produced until the introduc- 

 tion of the codling moth, which occurred in the latter 

 part of the nineties. During the years following 

 insect pests gained a strong foothold, and until within 

 the past two years only spasmodic efforts were made 

 toward control measures. So firmly were some of 

 the pests established that any attempt at their con- 

 trol was a monumental undertaking. 



The older and bearing orchards are scattered over 

 a territory 120 miles long by 15 miles wide. The 

 task of covering this large territory confronted the 

 commissioner when he began work in Inyo County. 

 The problem of introducing methods of control prac- 

 tically new to this section required first an educa- 

 tional campaign. The first difficulty in the inspec- 

 tion after so long a period had elapsed, in which but 

 little, if any, attention had been given the subject, 

 was to get a majority of the growers to see the neces- 

 sity of locating the pests and diseases, then applying 

 the remedy. Several infested orchards were located and control measures were used 

 with good results. Inspection of several orchards revealed such an infestation of 

 pests and diseases, due perhaps to neglect, that the ax and dynamite were used to 

 destroy the trees. 



