
TO OUR FRIENDS 
1 ae want to take this occasion to thank our many friends and 
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customers for their continued interest and encouragement 
Pinccen our many years of plant breeding efforts. You have 
shown this interest in many ways especially by your visits to 
our farms and experimental fields. 

These personal contacts have not only given us much encouragement 
and pleasure, but have been of inestimable help to us in our breeding 
program. Your opinions and reactions and practical suggestions con- 
cerning new strains in tests and increase plots, have greatly influenced 
our final decision as to which ones to increase. Some of you have even 
gone so far as actually to place orders two years prior to introduction, for 
seed of a new strain that struck your fancy. 
Many of you have adopted the program so long recommended by our 
late president, Mr. David R. Coker, namely: Each year to buy sufficient 
new seed to grow a seed patch, to furnish planting seed for your main crop 
the following year. This keeps your crop up to standard, close to pedigree 
and at an additional cost of not over 10 to 15 cents per acre when charged 
to the second year’s crop. 
Your adoption of this system has given us a measure of security, 
which is essential for all best work. We deeply appreciate this confidence 
and help. We hope that all of you who possibly can will visit us this year, 
in May when grain experiments can be seen to best advantage and in late 
summer or early fall to see cotton, soy bean, corn and other experiments. 
Looking forward to seeing you and with best wishes for 1941, I am 
Sincerely yours, 
President. 

Spring 1941. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 
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Breeding Program Adjusted to Reports from Customers ____ 13-14-15-16 
Meet Changing Demands —_______-- 2-3 Suggestions for Growing Cotton 
Coker 100 Strain 4. 4 Profitably Under Boll Weevil 
GCokers200nS trang 29 eee 5 Conditions) 3 ee eee 1 
Om karts 4 iim 1 Siweaim 4b 6-7 Views of Our Work _. 18-19 
Cokers 100i Strain’s = 8 SeedeC orn 6 es el ee 20 
Cokere200 ES trainy | ae 9 Hybrid Corn Program _._. 20 
Coker-Wilds Strains 12 and 11 ___ 10 Our Guernsey Herd ee 21 
Coker’s 4 in 1 Strain 3... 11 Our Method of Handling Cotton 
Coker-Clevewilt 7 Strain 2 12 SG eC arses. a WAR er erie enn 22-23 
Coker-Wilds Semi-Wilt 3 _. 12 Business enms eee 24 

