20 BULLETIN 1467. U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTI'EE 
sacked as ginned, and hauled back to the United States Experiment 
Date Garden for safe storage. 
These selections and increase progenies proved to be superior to 
the original stock of seed, being very much more uniform in plant- 
characters and having larger bolls and longer and more uniform fiber. 
It was planned to substitute this improved stock for the original 
stock of seed as soon as possible. 
Seed from one of the increase progenies sent from Texas (Okla- 
homa 8-1-1-1—3)*, which had been grown at Indio in 1921. was sent 
10 the United States Cotton Field Station in the San Joaquin Valley 
to form a nucleus for an improved Acala seed supply for that 
district. 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACALA INDUSTRY IX 1923 
DISTRIBUTION OF ROGUED SEED FOR PLANTING IN 1923 
Since the high price asked for the rogued seed in 1922 had seemed 
to restrict its u^e and 10 retard the development of a one-variety 
community, a different plan was adopted for distributing the rogued 
seed in 1923. Had the old plan been continued, it is likely that the 
percentage of Acala cotton in the valley would have been reduced. 
Under the new system the rogued Acala seed was made available 
to all bona fide CoachelLa Valley growers at cost : that is. the oil-mill 
valuation plus the cost of handling. Since the Acala seed grown by 
association members was sold outside of the valley and returned a 
profit above oil-mill prices, the growers of rogued seed evidently 
would be at a disadvantage. The association, however, was primarily 
interested in getting the entire valley on a one-variety basis, so it 
agreed to assume the distribution and sale of the rogued seed at 
cost. The farmers who grew the rogued seed joined the association. 
and though their seed was sold locally at cost, they received their 
pro-rata share of the returns from the seed sold outside of the valley. 
In other words, the money received from the sale of the rogued seed 
at cost and the greater returns from the seed sold outside of the 
valley were lumped together, and an equal amount per ton of seed 
was returned to each grower, so that all of the association members 
bore the burden of selling the rogued seed at cost in the local 
community. 
The rogued seed was made available to any Coachella Valley 
grower, whether an association member or not. so that the entire 
community was able to obtain the highest grade seed at a nominal 
cost. One or two growers who obtained rogued Acala seed from 
the association at cost offered their seed for sale outside of the 
valley in competition with' the association. The association recog- 
nized, however, that the advantages secured to the community by 
selling the rogued seed at cost tar outweighed the disadvantage 
to the association of furnishing competitors with seed at cost. When 
rogued seed is available at cost, more of the local growers will use 
it. and since the association had agreed to sell only seed from fields 
planted with rogued seed, this would mean that more growers would 
4 Oklahoma 8. the original selection from which this stock was developed, was one of 
the selections from a small block grown in Oklahoma. A large Acala acreage developed in 
Oklahoma from other selections made from this block. 
