Service and Regulatory Announcements: January 20, 1919 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Service and Regulatory Announcements: January 20, 1919

The important differences between the Pima and the Yuma varie ties are that the Pima variety has a whiter color and a longer staple. The Yuma variety has a staple from to inches in length, and the Pima a staple from to inches, or an increase of from to 14 Of an inch.

During the season of there were grown 253 bales of the Pima variety, the seed of which was saved for planting purposes, and the yield from the 1917 crop of Pima amounted to bales. Of these, bales were grown under the supervision of the United States Department of Agriculture (as were all previous productions of Pima cotton) on virgin soil, as far as cotton was concerned, and in no instance on any land where the Yuma variety had been grown previously. The ginning of practically all Of these bales was done in one gin. No other variety was ginned there and the seed was carefully sacked. From this seed almost the entire crop of 1918 was planted, on an area of between and acres in the Salt River Valley and sections of California.

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