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an adequate supply of pure seed is available. To bring more mixed 
seed into the community might not improve the crop, or might even 
impair it. 
3. Leaving out of consideration special cottons such as Egyptian, 
the yield per acre is of primary importance, but the adoption of a 
variety which brings a premium on the market will provide an addi- 
tional advantage to the community. It was evident in establishing 
the Coachella Valley community that the choice of a superior variety 
such as Acala, which yields exceptionally well, has good-sized bolls, 
a good lint percentage, and extra-value fiber, will aid very materially 
in establishing one-variety communities. 
4. After the variety has been selected, it is of great advantage to 
be able to make the best seed of this variety available to the entire 
community at cost. Where the community seed supply has to be 
procured from outside sources this may not be possible, but if the 
seed is produced within the community it is perfectly feasible. If 
ability to develop the seed supply is not available within the com- 
munity, a quantity of seed sufficient to plant fields corresponding 
with the rogued acreage of the Coachella Valley can be obtained 
from reputable sources outside of the community and seed from 
these fields made available to the community at cost. If the com- 
munity includes a large area, it may be necessary to increase the 
seed for two years before it is furnished to the community at cost. 
When the seed supply is produced within the community, it is 
necessary to protect it from mixture at the gin. 
5. Making the best planting seed available to the community at 
cost not only hastens the establishment of a one-variety community 
but has the added advantage of making it likely that every grower 
in the community will plant equally good seed of this variety. Such 
action would carry the community organization an important step 
onward and would improve still further the quality and value of 
the cotton produced. In the Coachella Valley in 1925 this policy 
resulted in the entire community planting seed of the third-year 
increase from a single row. 
6. The formation within the community of an association for the 
production of one variety is also a material aid. The members 
should agree to grow the kind of cotton specified by the association 
for a period of five years, which will give stability to the community 
effort. The association can also take care of the seed distribution, 
aid in selling the fiber, and handle other problems that are sure to 
come up. It was also demonstrated in the Coachella Valley that a 
local association aids materially in making commercial quantities 
of pure seed regularly available to other districts. The association 
should consist of bona fide growers, and all growers in the com- 
munity should be eligible for membership, otherwise the usefulness 
of the organization will be restricted and perhaps destroyed. 
7. In the final stages of the establishment of one variety in the 
community the gins can be of great assistance by refusing to gin 
cotton of other varieties. This should not be attempted, however, 
before the community is practically unanimous in the choice of the 
variety. 
8. The legal protection of one- variety communities by a county 
ordinance or by State legislation is also desirable. Such regulations, 
however, should apply only to communities already established on 
