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Coachella Valley growers for planting in 1922 at 10 cents a pound, 
which was the same price asked for the best association seed sold 
outside of the valley. The seed was too high priced, however, for 
this object to be realized, since in any community there is always a 
certain number of growers who are not willing to pay a high price 
for planting seed. The price asked for the rogued Acala seed thus 
restricted its use and resulted in its being planted principally by 
association members and on only about 64 per cent of the 1922 cotton 
acreage, However, 85 per cent of the Coachella Valley cotton acre- 
age consisted of Acala, the remaining acreage being planted with 
unrogued seed furnished by a local gin owner. 
Very little of the association's first-grade seed for sale outside of 
the valley was actually sold at 10 cents a pound, since the price had 
to be lowered in order to dispose of it. Thus in reality the rogued 
Acala seed was sold in the valley at a higher price than the first- 
grade unrogued seed brought outside of the valley. 
As a result of this policy about 16 tons of rogued Acala seed re- 
mained on hand, unutilized, up to the 1st of April. The association 
then made an effort to sell it outside of the valley at 10 cents a 
pound, but the price was too high for it to be disposed of, and the 
agreement with the growers did not permit lowering the price. 
The control of the seed then reverted to the owners, and they 
succeeded in selling all of it outside of the valley at prices ranging 
from 5 to 6% cents a pound. Had this been the price set for the 
rogued seed in the first place undoubtedly more of it would have 
been used in the valle}^. 
In June, after the onion crop had been harvested, many Coachella 
Valley ranchers decided to plant cotton following their onions. 
But by this time the only source of Acala seed was the unrogued 
seed handled by a local gin owner. Some of the onion growers 
planted the unrogued Acala seed, but one or two who would have 
planted Acala had rogued seed been available decided to plant 
Durango. 
A plan that undoubtedly would have resulted in a wider local 
use of the rogued seed would have been to make it available to all 
valley growers at oil-mill prices plus the cost of sacking and han- 
dling. On this basis even the grower who usually saves his own 
planting seed at the gin would not be out much more than the cost 
of the sacks if he sold his own seed to the oil mill and bought rogued 
Acala seed. Under this arrangement it is likely that more of the 
growers of other varieties would have planted Acala, thus hastening 
the accomplishment of the one- variety objective, and more of the 
Acala growers would have been supplied with the best Acala seed. 
The fact that rogued Acala seed was sold outside of the valley 
and thereby largely wasted, while 46 per cent of the cotton acreage 
of the Coachella Valley where an attempt was being made to form 
a one-variety Acala community was not planted to rogued Acala 
seed, indicated that something was wrong with the method of 
procedure. 
In the association's effort toward the production of pure Acala 
planting seed it would have been very much to the association's 
advantage for every grower in the valley, whether an association 
member or not, to have planted the rogued Acala seed. In a mixed 
