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MICHIGAN CORN YIELDS 



The foregoing table, compiled by Mr. V. H. Church, Federal Crops Statistician of Lansing, Michigan, gives acreage, yields 

 and prices of the Michigan corn crop for the past 15 years. 



MICHIGAN COIJN VAEIETIES 



The study of corn in Michigan corn fields, stored in Michigan corn 

 cribs, or assembled for exhibit at local corn shows has established the 

 fact that in many localities there are too great a number of varieties. 

 It is not uncommon to find as many as thirty or forty different varie- 

 ties exhibited at a single corn exhibit. These varieties vary markedly 

 in appearance, ranging from carefully selected strains of proper adapta- 

 tion and high yielding ability to varieties apparently too late or too 

 early in maturity for the community and showing little improvement 

 through breeding. The range in color includes the standard yellow, 

 white and white cap varieties, and strains of red, red splashed and blue 

 corn, and frequent mixtures. 



Careful variety tests have proven that these varieties vary as much 

 in yielding ability as in appearance, certain ones being capable of yield- 

 ing many bushels more under the same conditions than the majority 

 of the varieties in the tests. 



THE BEST VARIETIES SHOULD BE ACCEPTED AS STANDARDS 



Fortunately there are men in practically all Michigan corn growing 

 sections who have taken great interest in the development of well adapt- 

 ed and high yielding strains of corn, and who have, by years of careful 

 selection, laid a foundation for the standardization of Michigan corn 

 varieties. It is of the utmost importance to the individual grower and 

 to the corn crop of the State that these better varieties be more widely 



