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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 estab- 

 lishment 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 River Valley in order to learn at first hand the con- 

 dition and prospects of the industry, while representatives 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. 



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BEARING ON EGYPTIAN-COTTON GROWING 



IN THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES. 



The following is a list of publications dealing with the activities 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture in connection with 

 the establishment of Egyptian-cotton growing in the Southwest. 

 Several of the publications listed do not deal directly with Egyptian 

 cotton, but are included because they describe different phases of the 

 investigations which have formed the basis for the establishment 

 of this industry. 



Egyptian cotton in the southwestern United States. By Thomas H. Kearney 

 and William A. Peterson. Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 128. Issued 

 June 13, 1908. 



Suppressed and intensified characters in cotton hybrids. By O. F. Cook. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 147. Issued April 7, 1909. 



Experiments with Egyptian cotton in 1908. By Thomas H. Kearney and 

 William A. Peterson. Bureau of Plant Industry Circular 29. Issued April 16, 

 1909. 



