28 BULLETIN UQ1, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACALA INDUSTRY IN 1924 
DISTRIBUTION OF ROGUED SEED FOR PLANTING IN 1924 AND ACREAGE GROWN 
The rogued Acala seed for planting in the Coachella Valley in 
1924 was distributed by the Acala Cotton Growers' Association of 
the Coachella Valley at cost, as in 1923, and growers who could not 
pay for the seed at planting time were allowed credit. 
The valley cotton acreage was again increased, 4,818 acres being 
planted, in comparison with only 3,519 acres in 1923. As this in- 
crease was rather unexpected, the rogued seed supply was again 
somewhat short, even though seed did not have to be supplied for 
the entire 4,818 acres, since some of the valley acreage consisted of 
ratooned Acala fields. The growers, however, realized the value of 
the rogued seed and the advantages of community planting of the 
same stock of seed and reduced the number of pounds of seed planted 
per acre, which allowed the rogued seed to be spread over practically 
the entire acreage. This did not appreciably reduce the stands, but 
such cooperation could not have been obtained from the entire com- 
munity had a high price been asked for the rogued seed. 
Since two stocks of rogued seed, approximately 14 tons of the new 
and improved stock and 20 tons of the original stock, were available 
for valley planting in 1924, the situation was complicated to some 
extent. 
However, in distributing the rogued seed for planting in 1924 
an attempt was made to restrict the new-stock seed to growers who 
had clean land and whose seed would be saved for planting purposes, 
and the original-stock seed to growers whose land had previously 
been planted to other varieties or who were going to sell their seed 
to the oil mill. 
The problem of cross-pollination did not occur in 1924, since all 
other varieties had been completely eliminated from the valley and 
the entire cotton acreage consisted of Acala. The attainment of a 
100 per cent Acala community in the Coachella Valley was due (1) 
to the efforts of the association, whose members were pledged to grow 
Acala and to sell the rogued seed at cost, (2) to the cooperation of the 
gins in refusing to gin other varieties, and (3) to the cooperation of 
the county board of supervisors and the horticultural commissioner 
in furnishing legal protection. 
CLASSIFICATION OF ACALA SEED IN 1924 
Though Acala was the only variety grown in the Coachella Valley 
during 1924 and rogued Acala seed had been furnished for all the 
cotton planted, the rogued seed had consisted of two stocks which 
had to be kept separate. 
A record of the stock of seed planted by each grower had been 
kept, and the fields were visited by the secretary of the association 
and a representative of the Department of Agriculture. Although 
the question of isolation did not occur, since all of the cotton grown 
consisted of Acala, still there were 354 acres where Acala had been 
planted on land previously in other varieties, part of which acreage 
consisted of ratooned cotton. There were 4,464 acres of Acala grown 
on clean land, and of this acreage 926 acres had been planted with 
new-stock seed. 
