George Harlan Dungan
Published: 2017-11-20
Total Pages: 50
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Excerpt from Illinois Corn Performance Tests, 1937 This shift to hybrid corn means that many farmers who formerly selected their seed from fields of open-pollinated corn on their own farms are now depending on purchased seed, and they are finding a large number of hybrids on the market from which to choose, many of which are good, some of which are definitely superior to the better open-pollinated varieties, and still others of which are no better than the open-pollinated varieties. The field tests reported herein have therefore been made in order to help the farmer to choose those strains of corn that have outstanding merit, and to help the producer in his efforts to develop such strains. They are a part of a corn-improvement program conducted in coopera tion with the Division of Cereal Creps and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the Illinois State Natural History Survey. The data for the three previous years of these tests are reported in Bulletins 411, 427, and 429 of this Station. For the first time in the history of the hybrid corn program. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
