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agreed to save only the best Acala seed for planting purposes. This 
grade consisted of seed from fields planted with Government rogued 
seed, grown on clean land, and isolated from fields of other varie- 
ties. The cotton from these fields was required to be ginned under 
conditions prescribed by the association to avoid mixing the seed 
at the gin. These were the same conditions prescribed for the first- 
grade seed in 1921, with the additional requirement that rogued 
seed be used in planting, since enough rogued seed to plant the 
valley had not been available in 1921. 
A new county horticultural commissioner, who came into office in 
1922, did not feel that he had authority to cooperate with the asso- 
ciation in field inspection and to certify to the Acala seed, as had 
been done in 1921. However, a record of the quantity and kind of 
seed planted by each grower had been kept by the association, and 
since the services of the horticultural inspector were no longer avail- 
able, the fields were visited and classified by the secretary of the 
association and a representative of the Department of Agriculture. 
It was found that the association had furnished rogued Acala 
seed for 802 acres in 1922, but only 577 acres, or 72 per cent of the 
acreage, could qualify as producing good Acala planting seed. 
Twenty per cent of the acreage was land previously in other varieties, 
and 8 per cent of the fields were too close to fields of other varieties. 
Only the product of fields planted with rogued Acala seed, grown 
on land previously planted to Acala or not in cotton, and isolated 
from fields of other varieties, was designated as " planting seed," 
all other seed being designated " oil mill." On this basis, seed from 
only 45.8 per cent of the entire cotton acreage of the valley could 
qualify for planting purposes. 
Classifying the 269 acres of Acala planted with unrogued seed 
on the same basis as the association Acala, it is found that though 
1,071 acres, or 85.1 per cent, of the 1922 acreage consisted of Acala, 
only 69.8 per cent of this acreage consisted of first-grade Acala — 
grown on clean land and isolated by one-quarter of a mile from other 
varieties — while 18.7 per cent was grown on land that was not clean, 
and 11.5 per cent on land not well isolated. These figures are also 
given in Table 2 (p. 41) in comparison with similar data for other 
years. 
GINNING IN 1922 
Since 85.1 per cent of the 1922 acreage and 850 of the 990 bales 
ginned consisted of Acala, it was not practicable to handle the Acala 
seed in the same way as in 1921, when all of the association Acala 
was ginned at one gin and "Acala days " set aside. The association 
controlled a good share of the acreage, and this arrangement in 1922 
would have given one of the gins a very decided advantage over the 
other as a result of the Acala activity. It seemed desirable to avoid 
this complication if possible, lest the competition between varieties 
should become identified with the competition between gins, since 
the full cooperation of both gins in the district was necessary if the 
planting of one variety was to include the entire community. 
In order to keep the Acala seed which had been grown under 
satisfactory conditions from being mixed when it reached the gin, 
it was of course necessary to clean the gin machinery whenever a 
