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customers are much more likely to feel confidence in an association 
representing the entire community than in dissident individuals. 
:From the valley crop of 1923 the association saved 515 tons of 
Acala seed for 1924 planting in other districts. The demand for 
Acala seed was so great that by the first of March it was all sold 
and man}^ orders had to be refused. The wholesale price had been 
lowered to $100 a ton delivered, and a return of $60 a ton was made 
to the growers. 
At 20 pounds to the acre, 515 tons of seed would plant 51,500 
acres. Most of the seed went to Arizona as in 1922, but a good 
share of it went to the Imperial Valley, where an effort was being 
made at that time to procure better planting seed and form a one- 
variety community. It is evident from these figures that the efforts 
of the Coachella Valley cotton growers to organize themselves on a 
one-variety basis, and thus make pure Acala planting seed available 
for planting in other districts, was of great benefit to the cotton 
industry of the entire Southwest. 
The data regarding the sale of association Acala seed from the 
crop,t>f 1923 are given in Table 4 (p. 41) in comparison with similar 
data'for other years. 
BREEDING WORK IN 1923 
In 1923 practically all of the Coachella Valley Acala acreage was 
planted with seed from the fields rogued in 1922. This stock of 
seed had now been rogued for four successive years, and its use by 
the entire community constituted a definite advance in the com- 
munity organization and resulted in a general improvement in the 
character of the cotton grown. 
Special fields were rogued in 1923 to supply the Coachella Valley 
planting seed in 1924. All of the new-stock seed produced by the 
1922 breeding block at the United States Experiment Date Garden 
was planted in fields to be rogued, but there was only enough of 
this seed to plant 27 acres. This acreage was carefully rogued dur- 
ing the growing season by representatives of the Department of 
Agriculture. 
Since 27 acres could not produce enough seed to plant the entire 
cotton acreage of the Coachella Valley in 1924 if it should equal or 
exceed the 1923 acreage, it was necessary to rogue some of the fields 
planted with the original-stock seed. Consequently 40 acres of the 
original-stock cotton were rogued in addition to the 27 acres of new- 
stock cotton. 
The 67 acres rogued produced 68 bales and 71,996 pounds of seed 
for planting in the Coachella Valley in 1924. The 27 acres of new- 
stock cotton rogued produced 28 bales and approximately 14 tons 
of seed. The 40 acres of original-stock cotton rogued produced 
39 bales and approximately 20 tons of seed. The acreage rogued 
and the yield are also given in Table 5 (p. 41) in comparison with 
similar data for other years. 
The system of ginning the rogued cotton practiced in 1922 proved 
to have some disadvantages, and since an increased number of acres 
had been rogued in 1923, it was desirable to find some other means 
of handling the cotton from the rogued fields at the gin. 
