COMMUNITY PRODUCTION OP DURANGO COTTON. 13 



ORGANIZED GROWERS AND STABILIZATION. 



One of the chief functions of a cooperative association of growers 

 is to coordinate the activities of the grower, the bu} 7 er, the manu- 

 facturer, and the banker, and establish a condition of mutual confi- 

 dence among all the interests concerned with the production and use 

 of cotton. 



The Long-Staple Cotton Growers' Association is possibly the 

 greatest single aid to the stabilization of the long-staple industry. 

 To realize fully its usefulness as a stabilizing agency it must further 

 actively all that is best for the industry and for the grower. It must 

 persist in the maintenance and distribution of clean, well-selected 

 planting seed, and must develop local talent to assume the work of 

 roguing fields for the maintenance of seed supplies. 



The association may be expected to extend its activities to the 

 solution of financial problems affecting the grower, as it is the logical 

 agency to adjust crop loans in the interest of the grower; also ware- 

 housing and insurance rates, freight rates, and other financial matters 

 of general interest. 



A further function of the association which should not be neglected 

 is the proper use of publicity in discussing the problems of the 

 industry, in order to keep the grower informed of matters of interest 

 to him. It must also do pioneer work in the advocacy of desirable 

 new practices in culture. The exercise of its agricultural functions 

 will contribute to its influence as a stabilizing agency. 



COMMUNITY COTTON GROWING. 



The most efficient stabilizing principle for which an association 

 of growers can stand is the advocacy of one variety of long-staple cot- 

 ton for the whole industry, the community cotton plan already re- 

 ferred to. 



The growing of one superior variety of cotton throughout the 

 Imperial Valley, involving the elimination of all other varieties, 

 will greatly simplify the problem of securing pure planting seed. 

 This is the most practical way to guard against deterioration from 

 mixing with inferior varieties. Only one sort of cotton going into 

 the trade, and that a superior variety, will be the most effective 

 advertisement the industry can have. 



Community cotton growing, through its creation of new common 

 interests, may be expected to result in the more general application 

 of intensive methods of culture. 



ONE VARIETY SHOULD BE GROWN PERSISTENTLY. 



Community cotton growing implies persistence in the exclusive 

 use of one variety. The continued growing from year to year of the 



Hue kind of cotton will have :t most important bearing on the 



