28 BULLETIN 332, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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. 
