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Mr. H. N. Vinall of the U. S. D. A. is actively cooperating in the work 

 with field peas and has furnished many varieties for planting at this Station 

 and at the Chatham sub-station. 



I particularly desire to express the great appreciation felt by all members 

 of this section for the support and guidance extended to us by the Director, 

 the President and the State Board of Agriculture. 



Yours very truly, 



J. F. COX, 



Professor of Farm Crops. 



Professor J. F. Cox, Michigan Agricultural College, 



East Lansing, Michigan. 

 Dear Sir : 



The following is a brief report of the plant breeding work for the year ending 

 June 30th, 1921. To save space, a list of the plant breeding projects for the 

 year are checked off in a table. It has seemed best to include brief outlines 

 of past results and future plans. The results of one year, when isolated from 

 the results of other years and from future possibilities, mean little to anyone. 



PLANT BREEDING PROJECTS 1921. 



The principal part of the alfalfa work is a nursery containing 10,400 indi- 

 vidual plants, with which individual hay and seed records are being kept on 

 each individual plant. This work has been running since 1906, and has 

 resulted in the entire elimination of the old fashioned type, having a single 

 tap root and a crown that branches above the surface of the ground. This 



