32 BULLETIN 1467 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
for planting purposes and only seed of the original stock was 
allowed to go to the oil mill. 
BREEDING WORK IN 1924 
In 1924, as in 1923, practically the entire cotton acreage of the val- 
ley had been planted with rogued Acala seed. In 1924, however, a 
good share of the acreage had been planted with rogued seed of an 
improved stock which improved the quality of the local cotton and 
made an appreciable quantity of better seed available to the South- 
west. All of the fields rogued in 1924 had been planted with new- 
stock seed produced by the 1923 breeding bltfck grown at the United 
States Experiment Date Garden. The seed had been distributed 
among several growers, as a safeguard to the stock, and a total of 85 
acres was rogued. This rogued acreage produced 96 bales, which 
gave about 54 tons of seed to be used for planting in the Coachella 
v alley in 1925. The cotton from the rogued fields was stored in a 
special house at the gins until a sufficient quantity had accumulated to 
justify cleaning the gin machinery and properly taking care of the 
seed. 
Another l^-acre breeding block was planted at the date garden. 
(Pis. 4 and 5.) The breeding block consisted of progeny rows and 
seed from the best increase progeny of the 1923 breeding block. 
The progeny rows were studied and compared and additional in- 
dividual plants were selected in the fall. The gin machinery was 
thoroughly cleaned before the cotton from this block was run 
through. The seed was caught on the floor, sacked as ginned, and 
hauled back to the date garden for safe storage. 
STATE LEGISLATION PROTECTING ONE-VARIETY DISTRICTS 
As previously stated, when the problem of legally protecting the 
Coachella Valley Acala community from the possibility of damage 
through ignorance or design was brought to the attention of county 
officials, a county ordinance, designed to answer this need, was passed. 
The county officials, however, recognized that the constitutionality 
of the ordinance might be questioned, and the possibility of procur- 
ing State legislation protecting one-variety communities was there- 
fore considered. 
With this object in mind, County Horticultural Commissioner A. E. 
Bottel arranged for a cotton conference to be held at Riverside, 
Calif., March 15, 1924. The conference was well attended, growers 
and representatives from all of the cotton-growing districts of the 
State being present. Papers were read regarding the advantages 
of the community production of one variety of cotton. Before the 
conference adjourned an association to be known as the California 
Cotton Growers' Association was formed. H. H. Clark, a prominent 
cotton grower and the manager of a large cotton plantation in the 
Imperial Valley, Lower California, Mex., was elected president of 
the organization. Mr. Clark was very much interested in one- 
variety production, and his company, which grows more than 
100,000 acres of cotton, was already devoting its entire acreage to the 
production of Acala. A legislative committee was appointed to in- 
vestigate the possibility of obtaining State legislation protecting 
