30 BULLETIN 1111, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
that allows communities to maintain and utilize superior varieties 
of cotton has a very close analogy with provisions for carrying 
through other public improvements, such as roads, drainage, or 
irrigation works, instead of allowing such progress to be hampered 
or prevented by careless, backward, or perverse individuals, who may 
be found in small numbers in any community. 
INTEREST IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
Progress in cotton communities is not to be expected from external 
influences or from organization alone, but it depends on local interest 
inspired by practical understanding and a right public spirit or com- 
munity point of view. Merely to recognize the advantages of the 
one-variety plan is not enough. The successful working out of any 
local application of the plan depends upon the constructive interest 
and initiative of the community itself, in the same way that the 
individual farmer must have an active and progressive interest in 
adopting a cultural improvement, which otherwise he will fail to 
understand or to use properly. Experience with community work in 
other places can be utilized, but communities differ no less than 
climates or soils, and measures of progress have to be adapted to 
local community needs and developed mainly through local interest 
and initiative. 
That community conditions are so varied and that some communi- 
ties are so much more ready than others to take up and carry forward 
such a plan as one-variety organization of cotton production make 
it the more important to have the plan widely known among agricul- 
tural leaders of the cotton-growing regions, whether official or 
private, so that the most favorable conditions for community de- 
velopment may be found. From this standpoint the improvement of 
the cotton industry is no longer a merely biological or breeding 
problem, limited to the technical plant characters, cultural methods, 
or industrial requirements, but also has a general social or sociologi- 
cal side. Methods of organizing cotton-growing communities need 
to be devised, studied, and gradually perfected, like methods of 
organizing industrial corporations, irrigation districts, or other 
special forms of cooperation. 
That pure-seed problems should be considered by sociologists would 
not be expected, or that plant breeders should study community or- 
ganization, but there is a common ground of interest and practical 
cooperation. Breeders of varieties must learn the value and need of 
community cooperation, while sociologists and economists, as well 
as teachers and agricultural leaders generally, should take more 
account of the biological factors that determine the improvement or 
degeneration of varieties. To devise effective methods of organiz- 
