UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1467 
Washington, D. C. 
March, 1927 
COMMUNITY PRODUCTION OF ACALA COTTON IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY 
OF CALIFORNIA 
By H. G. McKeever, Junior Agronomist, Office of Cotton, Ruol)ei\ and Other 
Tropical Plants, Bureau of Plant Industry 
CONTENTS 
Introduction 1 
Local conditions 2 
First cotton plantings 2 
Second period of commercial producti on 3 
First Acala planting in the Coachella Valley. 4 
Interest aroused by the Acala planting 5 
Formation of the Acala Cotton Growers' 
Association of the Coachella Valley 6 
Acala planting increased by the formation of 
the association „ 7 
Distribution of Acala seed produced at the 
United States Experiment Date Garden in 
1920 7 
Development of the Acala industry in 1921 . . 8 
Development of the Acala industry in 1922. . 12 
Development of the Acala industry in 1923.. 20 
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Protection of the Coachella Valley Acala 
industry by a county ordinance 26 
Development of the Acala industry in 1924.. 28 
State legislation protecting one-variety dis- 
tricts 32 
Legislation providing for State certification 
of cottonseed 35 
Development of the Acala industry in 1925.. 36 
Tabulation of data... 40 
Premiums obtained for Acala fiber 42 
Utilization of Coachella Valley Acala seed in 
other cotton districts 43 
Conclusions 44 
List of publications on community cotton 
improvement 46 
INTRODUCTION 
A one-variety cotton community has developed in the Coachella 
Valley of California as the result of a small planting of Acala cotton 
made in the valley in 1920. Community organizations were estab- 
lished at that time and have been continued since, so that the com- 
munity has functioned for a series of years on a basis of one variety. 
It is believed that several features in the experience of this community 
in the utilization of one variety of cotton and in maintaining a 
supply of pure seed will be of special interest in other communities 
and of general interest to those who are concerned with the improve- 
ment of conditions of production in the cotton industry. 
The object in mind has not been to enumerate the advantages of 
community cotton production, since this phase of the subject has 
been treated in other publications, some of which are listed at the 
end of this bulletin, but rather to describe the development of an 
actual one-variety community. As will be appreciated from the 
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