PRODUCTION OF AMERICAN EGYPTIAN COTTON. i 
of the department who have worked constantly in the community, 
members of the Committee on Southwestern Cotton Culture have . 
made frequent visits to the Salt River Valley. The attitude of the 
officers and members of the growers’ associations in their cooperation 
with the Department of Agriculture has been of the most cordial 
and helpful character and has been a very important factor in the 
establishment of the industry. 
(4) Cooperation with. the cotton manufacturers on tne part of 
both investigators and growers has also contributed largely to the 
development of the industry. Manufacturers have assisted most 
willingly and effectively in making spinning tests of the product 
from time to time, and in furnishing both to the Department. of 
Agriculture and to the growers’ associations useful information 
concerning, the cotton. This information has guided the growers 
to better methods of handling the product and has given the investi- 
gators helpful suggestions in connection with the breeding work. 
Some of the manufacturers interested in this type of cotton have 
visited the Salt. River Valley in order to learn at first hand the con- 
dition and prospects of the industry, while representatives’ of the 
growers’ associations and of the department have been welcome visit- 
ors at mills where the cotton is being utilized. 
The policy of the Department of Agriculture in encouraging the 
production of long-staple cotton on the community basis is beginning 
to be appreciated by manufacturers and buyers, many of whom 
now realize that in order to obtain year after year ample quantities 
of cotton of unchanging character they must look to localities where 
the farmers are organized to grow only one kind of cotton, to pre- 
vent deterioration of the type by seed selection, and to class and 
market their crop as a unit. 
