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breed association, many experiment station workers and private breeders. 

 We feel particularly grateful for the generous assistance and the 

 untiring interest which the publishers have given to the completion of the 

 book. After the illustrations had all been made and the whole text was in 

 page proof, a disastrous fire destroyed the printing plant, including the 

 illustrations for the book, some of the original manuscript and all the 

 page proof. The publishers, however, at once began the work of putting- 

 it in type again and assisted greatly in securing new illustrations. In 

 acknowledging our gratitude to the publishers we should mention espe- 

 cially Prof W. G. Johnson, secretary of Orange Judd Company and asso- 

 ciate editor of American Agriculturist, who has had general supervision 

 of the book in the process of making. 



THE AUTHORS. 

 United States Department Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C., January 1, 1908. 



