UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 1111 
Washington, D. C. T November 25, 1922 
ONE-VARIETY COTTON COMMUNITIES 
By 
O. F. COOK, Bionomist in Charge of the Office of 
Crop Acclimatization and Adaptation Investigations 
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 through Public Gins 11 
Gin-Unit Communities . 13 
Too Many Cotton Varieties 15 
Renaming Varieties of Cotton 17 
Community Pure Seed the Best 19 
Different Kinds of Organization 21 
Progress in Organized Communities 24 
Classing Cotton in the Field 26 
Relation of Community Production to Diversified Farming 28 
Interest in Community Development 3u 
Community Utilization of Varieties 34 
Pima Cotton Communities 36 
Meade Cotton Communities 39 
Durango Cotton Communities 42 
Acala Cotton Communities 44 
Community Utilization of Lone Star Cotton 45 
Conclusions 46 
List of Publications on Community Cotton Improvement .... 49 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1922 
