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In 1937—960 Again Proved to Be the Highest Yielding Hybrid 
This shows how stalks are 
bagged for selfing or imbreeding 
corn. For the year 1937 we used 
19,090 hags for selfing, making sin¬ 
gle crosses and increasing inibred 
lines. 
HYBRID CORN 
Certified No. 960 
This Hybrid proved to be by far the best last year over a 
wide territory and under varying conditions. It proved to 
be adapted to a wider variation of soil types than any other, 
also climatic conditions, proving to be the best from as far 
north as Cambridge, Henry and Dwight. Also proved to be 
the highest in central Illinois from Adair, Stanford and 
Armstrong, also south central Illinois at Frankfort and 
Sullivan, and even highest as far south as Albion. 
These tests were taken under worse drought conditions 
Illinois ever had and proved this variety to be one of the 
most resistant through drought and heat. This year in many 
cases under ideal conditions it proved to be the best. While 
the official tests for 1937 have not yet been published we 
have records from several counties which shows it to be 
again the highest over a wide section in the State of Illinois. 
We had seventeen different Hybrids, four rows of each eighty rods long in the middle of an eighty 
acre field of corn. All produced under the same growing conditions and a fair test, on good black swamp 
land (but yields were cut from 25% to 40% by a terrible wind storm which we had which was the 
worst we have ever seen, as you will notice from some pictures in this catalogue). Yields were as fol¬ 
lows. 
Bushels 
Down Stalks 
960 . 
. . . . 76 
12 
KB-100 . 
74i / 2 
11 
543 . 
18 
582 ... 
. . . . 71 
16 
710 . 
.... 71 
14 
710-A. 
...70 
13 
Iowealth 25-C 1 . 
.... 68 
18 
546 . 
. . . . 66 
16 
945 . 
. . . . 65 
3 
Iowealth 25-B. 
. . . . 64 
10 
366 . 
.... 63 
18 
384 . 
. . . . 61 
9 
936 . 
. . . . 61 
7 
360 . 
.... 61 
18 
220-L . 
.... 61 
13 
Krug, open pollinated.. . . 
. . . . 61 
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Picture of this plot ou front cover. 
This field was on one of our farms in Tazewell 
County. In Mason County (where we own 420 acres 
of land) on good black clay loam similar to above 
soil 960 made 99.66 bushels, outyielded only by one 
variety, that of 947. 
Above picture shows 960 on the right, 754 on the 
left. Both very similar in appearance as you will 
notice. 
The Results of 1937 Corn Strip Tests Produced in 
Mason County 
Raymond Bell plots, west of Mason City on brown 
sandy loam. 
Illinois 960, moisture 16.5, yield 65.96 bushels, No. 
2 corn. , 
Iowealth 25-B, moisture 19.3, yield 62.11 bushels, 
No. 2 corn. 
Wolters 360-A, moisture 17.8, yield 56.04 bushels, 
No. 2 corn. 
Warner Brothers’ plots six miles northwest of San 
Jose on good black rich loam, extra good land. 
Illinois 947, moisture 21.2, yield 104.86 bushels, No. 
2 corn. 
Illinois 960, moisture 19.6, yield 99.66 bushels, No. 
2 corn. 
Punk’s 212, moisture 20.0, yield 95.82 bushels, No. 
2 corn. 
Illinois 938, moisture 18.1, yield 90.95 bushels, No. 
2 corn. 
Harold High plots, brown sandy loam, very sandy. 
Illinois 960, moisture 13.5, yield 48.47 bushels, No. 
2 corn. 
Illinois 947, moisture 13.3, yield 46.71 bushels, No. 
2 corn. 
Funk’s 235, moisture 12.8, yield 46.76 bushels. No. 
2 corn. 
Mason County contains more soil types, we under¬ 
stand, than any other county in the United States. 
These three tests all varied greatly but still 960 
was high or next to highest as on the Warner plot. 
Results In Logan County 
Part of San Jose is located in Logan County 
where there were three tests made. One on low fer¬ 
tility, one on medium fertility and one on high fer¬ 
tility which showed the following results. 
On low fertility, L.. W. Lucas farm. Yield 
546 . 97.3 
Iowealth C. 94.63 
960 . 92.39 
On medium fertility, Herman Bauer farm. 
Iowealth 663.103.47 
710 .103.35 
582 which has the same four imbreds 
as 960 except arranged differently.. 102.78 
960 ranked seventh in this test with 
yield of 99.69, but was second in 
gross yield having a thinner stand 
than any of the others with the ex¬ 
ception of one and which no doubt 
accounted for this low rank, it hav¬ 
ing a stand of 100.4, compared with 
others ranging up to 120 . 0 . 
On high fertility, Herman Bauer farm. 
960 ranked No. 1, yield 125.53, with only a percent¬ 
age of 5.0 defective stalks. 
US-44, yield 115.29 bushels, defective stalks 12.1. 
360-A, yield 115.16 bushels, defective stalks 8.5. 
360, yield 114.89 bushels, defective stalks 15.5. 
