UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 1111 



Washington, D. C. ▼ November 25, 1922 



ONE-VARIETY COTTON COMMUNITIES 



By 



O. F. COOK, Bionomlst in Charge of the Office of 



Crop Acclimatization and Adaptation Inyestigations 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Pare Cotton Seed a Fundamental Requirement 1 



Disadvantages of Mixed- Variety Production 3 



Superior Varieties Not Utilized 6 



Distribution of New Varieties Ineffective 7 



Deterioration througli Public Gins II 



Gin-Unit Communities 13 



Too Many Cotton Varieties IS 



Renaming Varieties of Cotton 17 



Community Pure Seed the Best 19 



Different Kinds of Organization .21 



Progress in Organized Communities 24 



Classing Cotton in tlie Field 26 



Relation of Community Production to Diversified Farming 28 



Interest in Community Development . . . 3U 



Community Utilization of Varieties 34 



Pima Cotton Communities S6 



Meade Cotton Communities 39 



Durango Cotton Communities 42 



Acala Cotton Communities 44 



Community Utilization of Lone Star Cotton 45 



Conclusions 46 



Listof Publications on Community Cotton Improvement . ... 49 



WASEUNGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTINQ OFFICE 



1922 



