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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



AVERAGE YIELD PER ACRE OF TWO OF THE HIGHEST YIELDING 



VARIETIES AND TWO OF THE LOWEST YIELDING 



VARIETIES OF CORN. 



MISSOURI EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Varieties vary considerably in their ability to yield in any 

 given locality, and a high yielder in one state, or even in one sec- 

 tion of a state, may not be the one best adapted for another. 

 In every state in the corn belt there are varieties of corn which 

 have been developed by long continued selection under certain 

 environmental conditions and which have come to be particu- 

 larly well adapted there. The corn grower who may not care 

 to go into the business of corn breeding can do no better than to 

 make use of one of these standard varieties. The careful farmer 

 will determine what variety best suits his purpose, either by trial 

 or by seeking the information from the Experiment Station, and 

 then obtain his seed from some reliable grower who makes a 

 business of seed corn production. 



One should also take the precaution to obtain seed grown 

 as nearly as possible under the same conditions of environment 

 as those under which he expects to plant it. It is a well estab- 

 lished fact that corn brought in from a distance yields less than 

 native seed of the same variety. This is well illustrated by data 

 from the Nebraska Experiment Station.* 



♦Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 126, 1912. 



