Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — COTTON IN IMPERIAL VALLEY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COTTON IN IMPERIAL VALLEY

Experiments With Fleecy Btaple In California Indicates New Industry Is Established There. Washington.—Cotton has out very fully for several years Ur the Imperial valley of California. There were 15,000 acres planted to cotton in 1910. From the results since that time it is now certain that a new industry is fully established

A cotton field in the Imperial valley —not an experiment but a staple crop. It is only a question of learning how to plant and Irrigate cotton to make it profitable in this section. in this section, the short-staple upland cotton producing a good commercial fiber, and the first planting by men knowing little of the Industry producing a bale and a half pm* acre. Something has now been learned about irrigating and planting the seed and excellent results are expected from this new Industry. The growing season lasts from March to December and the cotton is. uniform instaple and color. It is believed that the dryness of the air will keep the boll weevil out of the Iseperial valley,