22 BULLETIN 1467, 17. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
had this acreage been replanted it likely would have gone into 
Acala. The Mebane acreage, however, was increased in 1923, but 
not in so great a proportion as the Acala acreage. Seventeen acres 
of Mebane, constituting 1.3 per cent of the valley acreage, were 
grown in 1922, while 27 acres of Mebane were grown in 1923, but 
constituted only 0.8 per cent of the valley acreage. The 1923 acre- 
age data are given in Table 2 in comparison with similar data for 
other years. 
The Coachella Valley community had now reached the point 
where 98.6 per cent of the cotton acreage consisted of one variety, 
varieties other than Acala being almost completely eliminated. But 
complete!} 7 eliminating all but one variety of cotton in a community 
is a much more difficult problem than getting nearly all of the 
growers to plant one variety. The majority of the growers in a 
community can readily see the advantages of growing one variety, 
but these advantages are not so readily discernible to a small pro- 
portion of the population, and the more they are urged to give 
up the variety they happen to be growing the more determined they 
become to continue with it. Such growers are frequently renters 
who have no community interest, and sometimes they are influenced 
by personal animosity toward the leaders of the community. Oc- 
casionally some one is found who might maliciously plant another 
variety in a one-variety district. Usually, however, these reaction- 
ary growers simply fail to see that the advantages of having one 
kind of cotton in the community far outweigh, for themselves and 
their neighbors, any advantage that they possibly can get from 
growing different varieties. 
CLASSIFICATION OF ACALA SEED IN 1923 
The Acala Cotton Growers' Association of the Coachella Valley 
furnished rogued seed for all of the Acala cotton planted in the 
Coachella Valley in 1923. This did not include quite all of the 
3,519 acres of Acala grown, since a small proportion of this acreage 
consisted of ratooned cotton. This ratooned cotton, however, was 
handled on the same basis as the planted cotton, provided rogued 
Acala seed had been used in the original planting. 
As in 1922, all the cotton fields of the valley were visited and 
classified by the secretary of the association and a representative 
of the Department of Agriculture. It was found that only 3.4 
per cent of the valley acreage consisted of other varieties, and that 
5.5 per cent (195 acres) of the Acala acreage was too close to these 
fields to permit the seed to be saved for planting purposes. It was 
also found that 11.5 per cent (404 acres) of the Acala acreage was 
grown on land previously in other varieties, and the seed was there- 
fore disqualified for planting purposes. This included Acala grown 
on land planted to another variety in any previous year, either 
without an intervening crop of Acala cotton or with an intervening 
jidanting of some other crop. 
Eighty-three per cent of the Acala acreage was grown on clean 
land and isolated from fields of other varieties. Seed from this 
acreage alone was designated as planting seed, seed from the rest of 
the Acala fields being designated as oil-mill seed. 
