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of the department who have worked constantly in the community, 

 members of the Committee on Southwestern Cotton Culture have 

 made frequent visits to the Salt River Valley. The attitude of the 

 officers and members of the growers' associations in their cooperation 

 with the Department of Agriculture has been of the most cordial 

 and helpful character and has been a very important factor in the 

 establishment of the industry. 



(4) Cooperation with the cotton manufacturers on the part of 

 both investigators and growers has also contributed largely to the 

 development of the industry. Manufacturers have assisted most 

 willingly and effectively in making spinning tests of the product 

 from time to time, and in furnishing both to the Department of 

 Agriculture and to the growers' associations useful information 

 concerning, the cotton. This information has guided the growers 

 to better methods of handling the product and has given the investi- 

 gators helpful suggestions in connection with the breeding work. 

 Some of the manufacturers interested in this type of cotton have 

 visited the Salt Eiver Valley in order to learn at first hand the con- 

 dition and prospects of the industry, while representatives 1 of the 

 growers' associations and of the department have been welcome visit- 

 ors at mills where the cotton is being utilized. 



The policy of the Department of Agriculture in encouraging the 

 production of long-staple cotton on the community basis is beginning 

 to be appreciated by manufacturers and buyers, many of whom 

 now realize that in order to obtain year after year ample quantities 

 of cotton of unchanging character they must look to localities where 

 the farmers are organized to grow only one kind of cotton, to pre- 

 vent deterioration of the type by seed selection, and to class and 

 market their crop as a unit. 



