COMMUNITY PRODUCTION OF 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 buyer, 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 eot- 
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 
same kind of cotton will have a most important bearing on the 
