SATISFIED CUSTOMERS HAVE BUILT OUR BUSINESS 
—WARNING— 
Don’t buy Hybrid varie¬ 
ties of Sweet or Field Corn 
with the idea of saving 
your own seed. By doing so 
these strains will revert and 
lose their hybrid vigor and pro¬ 
ductivity. First generation 
seed only should be planted 
from the breeding plots of ex¬ 
perienced growers operating 
under the supervision of the 
Experiment Stations. The ex¬ 
tra returns more than offset 
the seed cost. 
See next page for descrip¬ 
tions and Blue Figure List for 
prices. 
Order early as seed supply 
will not fill the demand. 
ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING 
HYBRID CORN 
A Perfect Stand 
The latest corn breeding developments demonstrate that 
the heaviest yielding type of corn is a cross between two 
or more pure inbred strains. A vigorous sturdy plant, a 
good, sound ear on every stalk, no weak and spindling 
plants, few nubbins or moldy ears. These are some of the 
outstanding characteristics of Hybrid or Crossed Corn. All 
of these desirable features combined, enable this kind of 
corn to outyield the old standard varieties, year after year 
and under all sorts of conditions. 
Hybrid or Crossed Corn will allow you to plant fewer 
acres in line with the Government program for reducing 
the production of corn, and still have enough to take care 
of your needs at a much lower cost per acre. These addi¬ 
tional acres that are taken out of production can always 
be well planted to pastures and meadows and other recom¬ 
mended crops. 
The Minnesota Experiment Station, among others, has 
been a pioneer in developing hybrid varieties of corn, also 
our own Plant Breeding Department has been developing 
new varieties. 
Hybrid Corn Permits H eavier Planting 
The normal planting of corn is 3 to 4 kernels per hill. 
In regions of heavy rainfall, Hybrid Seed may be planted 
4 to 5 kernels per hill. This practice gives even greater 
yields. 
Resistance to Drought 
Hybrid Corn is very vigorous in development, grows 
more rapidly and is able to take advantage of soil and 
weather conditions more readily than the open pollinated 
kinds. This has led to the statement that hybrid varieties 
are more drought resistant. 
Cheap at Double the Seed Cost 
The average increase in yield of Hybrid Corn over open 
pollinated varieties is about 12 bushels more per acre. 
When corn is worth 50c per bushel, the return per acre 
would be $6.00 more than if you grew an ordinary variety. 
When corn is worth 75c per bushel, the average increased 
return would be $9.00 more per acre. One bushel of 
Hybrid Corn will plant about 7 acres, making a total in¬ 
creased return of about $63.00 from one bushel of seed. 
According to our present prices, Hybrid Seed Corn costs 
about $1.00 per acre. We cannot supply the large de¬ 
mand for this Hybrid Seed, so place your order early so 
as not to be disappointed, Page 65 
WHAT THE MAN WHO GREW THE CONTEST 
FIELD HAS TO SAY ABOUT F. S. & N. CO’S 
SEED CORN 
SCENES FROM THE NA¬ 
TIONAL CORN HUSKING 
CONTEST 
At Fairmont, Minn., 
Nov. 8, 1934. 
Where F. S. & N. Co’s 
Hybrid Corn Was Used To 
Produce the Contest Field. 
Top Picture: Part of the 
50,000 attending the great¬ 
est Sporting Event in Agri¬ 
culture—The National Corn 
Husking Contest. 
Center Picture: Follow¬ 
ing the state champions 
down the rows of flying 
corn. 
Lower Picture: Thou¬ 
sands registered at the F. S. 
& N. Co’s tent for particu¬ 
lars regarding Hybrid Corn 
and a catalog. 
Above Picture: H. E. 
Blesi, who planted the con- 
t e s t field at Fairmont, 
Minn., with F. S. & N. Co’s 
Hybrid Corn—See letter. 
FAIRMONT CANNING COMPANY 
Fairmont, Minnesota, October 6, 1934. 
Farmer Seed & Nursery Co., Faribault, Minn. 
Gentlemen: 
It was our privilege to use some of your HY¬ 
BRID Seed Corn on a field of fifty acres of field 
corn which we planted this spring in competition 
with many others for the National Corn Husking 
Contest. After a thorough inspection of the fields 
by the judging committee our field was selected as 
the field for the 1934 contest, and we want to give 
due credit to your product in helping us raise this 
fine field of corn. 
We were especially well pleased with the uni¬ 
formity of this seed. We have as close to a 
100% stand as is mechanically possible, there not 
being any hills missing. This field was estimated 
by the judging committee to yield sixty bushels per 
acre, which is outstanding when we consider this 
season’s weather conditions. 
Also there were two other points of interest, 
namely: the very strong root system the plants had, 
thereby keeping the corn standing straight and the 
ears of corn have very straight rows, well filled, 
with practically no nubbins. 
We assure you it gives us great pleasure to re¬ 
port to you the results we have obtained from the 
use of your seed. Yours very truly, 
FAIRMONT CANNING 'COMPANY. 
( Signed ) H. E. Blesi. 
SEED CORN 
Produced a Perfect Field in a Drought Year 
The National Corn Husking Contest held at Fair¬ 
mont, Minnesota, November 8, 1934, made real his¬ 
tory for Minnesota. 
Ted Balko of Redwood Falls captured the champ¬ 
ionship for Minnesota. A crowd of 50,000 visitors 
broke all records for a similar sporting event in Min¬ 
nesota, and F. S. & N. Co’s Hybrid Seed Corn pro¬ 
duced the field selected for the National Contest. 
Why this field was selected is told in the letter 
we reprint below, from Mr. Blesi, manager of the 
Fairmont Canning Co. 
It was an eye opener for thousands of farmers 
who were not fully acquainted with the merits of Hybrid 
Seed Corn. Advance orders indicate an early sell-out of 
all Hybrids, and we advise, therefore, to order promptly. 
What Is Hybrid or Crossed Corn? 
Hybrid Seed Corn is the result of a cross produced by 
controlled fertilization of two or more inbred pure lines. 
Such hybrid varieties have superior plant characteristics, 
such as resistance to lodging, more vigorous growth, uni¬ 
formity of plants, earlier maturity, and most important, an 
increased yield of higher quality corn having better feed¬ 
ing value. 
Increased Yields From Hybrids 
Hybrid Corn varieties of merit will show increased 
yields of 10% to 50% or more, and those offered at the 
present time will show an average of about 20% over the 
normal open pollinated kinds, adapted to the same locality. 
Farmer Seed & Nursery Co's 
Ch ampionship 
"HYBRID" 
