Cotton varieties recognized as standard commercial varieties

Thirty-one varieties (Acala 5, Acala 8, New Boykin, Cleveland 54, Coker's Cleveland 884, Piedmont Cleveland 2-1, Wannamaker Cleveland, Cook 307-6, Delfos 9169, Deltapine 8, Deltapine 10, Delta type Webber, Dixie Triumph, Dixie 14, Express 121, Lightning Express, Half and Half, Kasch, Lone Star, Mebane, Missdel, Station Miller, Mexican Big Boll, Oklahoma Triumph 44, Pima, Rowden, Arkansas Rowden 40, Toole, Stoneville, Trice, and Wilds) were selected by a vote of 20 cotton breeders and cotton agronomists scattered throughout the cotton-growing states. The Committee was named by the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers and worked in cooperation with the Varietal Standardization Committee of the American Society of Agronomy. The Cotton Belt was divided into five districts: Western, Texas-Oklahoma, Mississippi Valley, Mississippi-Tennessee-Alabama Hill Land District, and the Georgia-Carolina District. A local committee was designated for each district, the members of which were asked to name all the varieties of the district which they considered eligible to be listed as a standard variety. Varieties thus nominated were voted on by each local committee. Varieties receiving a majority vote by the local committee were passed on to a general committee, consisting of one member from each of the districts mentioned above, and again voted on. As a result of this procedure the varieties listed were chosen. No variety was recognized unless it represented a fairly distinct type, was of considerable commercial importance in at least some part of the Cotton Belt, was grown rather extensively in 1930, and is still being grown. New strains introduced since 1930 were not listed because they are eligible for registration as New Varieties of Merit if they can qualify. Many varieties were not recognized because they were considered as being identical or very nearly the same as other varieties. The members of the different district committees were as follows: Western District, C. B. Doyle; Texas-Oklahoma, D. T. Killough, L. L. Ligon, J. S. Mogford, R. V. Miller, H. C. McNamara, J. O. Ware; Mississippi Valley, Newman Hancock, Ide P. Trotter, J. O. Ware, H. A. York, H. B. Brown; Mississippi-Tennessee-Alabama, Newman Hancock, J. F. O'Kelly, H. B. Tisdale; Georgia-Carolina, R. P. Bledsoe, R. R. Childs, E. E. Hall, P. H. Kime, C. A. McLendon.