§ BULLETIN 1467, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Although the growers of the rogued seed had declared their inten- 
tion of joining the Acala Cotton Growers' Association, they had a 
special arrangement with the association regarding the disposal 
of their seed. To promote the use of the rogued seed for planting 
within the Coachella Valley, these growers agreed to hold their 
seed, subject to purchase by association members or others for 
planting in the Coachella Valley, at the same price the association 
received for the best grade of planting seed sold outside of the 
valley. In the event of all their seed not being disposed of for 
planting in the Coachella Valley within a reasonable time, they 
were to sell outside of the valley at a price equal to or greater than 
that asked for association seed. 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACALA INDUSTRY IN 1921 
ACREAGE AND VARIETIES GROWN IN 1921 
Though no definite figures in regard to acreage are available, there 
was undoubtedly much less cotton planted in the Coachella Valley 
in 1921 than in 1920, since only 781 bales were ginned from the 1921 
crop, whereas 2,435 bales had been ginned from the 1920 crop. 
The reduced acreage in 1921 was due to the rapidly declining 
cotton prices in the fall of 1920 and the low price at planting time. 
However, the efforts toward community production being made in 
the valley undoubtedly had some tendency to stabilize the acreage. 
Had it not been for the interest aroused in Acala as a superior cotton, 
likely to yield a profit even during periods of depression, and the 
movement to bring good seed into the valley, the acreage probably 
would have been further reduced. 
Although the total cotton acreage was reduced in 1921, the Acala 
acreage increased from 1 acre in 1920 to approximately 300 acres 
in 1921, or about one-third of the total cotton acreage. The other 
two-thirds of the acreage were about equally divided between 
Durango and Mebane. 
The Durango variety is similar to the Acala in plant type. It pro- 
duces fiber of excellent length and quality, and very good yields are 
often obtained by skillful growers. The Durango bolls, however, 
are smaller than those of Acala and the lint percentage lower. 
Mebane, a variety of the Texas big-boll type, found its adherents 
chiefly among growers who had come to California from Texas. It 
has not proved very well adapted to the irrigated conditions of the 
Southwest, as it is rather determinate in growth and tends to lodge 
or fall down. The fiber is short and never commands the premium 
often realized for the Acala and Durango fiber. The Mebane fields 
in the Southwest also lack' uniformity in regard to both plant and lint 
characters, since only a mixed seed supply is available. On account 
of the danger of introducing the boll weevil from Texas, the States 
of California and Arizona have regulations against the shipment of 
seed and maintain strict quarantines against seed from the eastern 
Cotton Belt. 
The Acala acreage in the Coachella Valley was not concentrated 
in any one district, nor was the Durango or Mebane acreage. Con- 
sequently, where fields of different varieties were near each other, 
