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SEED CORN 
WHAT IS HYBRID CORN? 
Suppose certain kinds of corn have some 
very good habits. The breeder wants to 
preserve them. Other corns have other good 
features that the first ones did not have. The 
breeder wants to collect those good habits 
into one variety. He takes the pollen from 
one of those plants, and places it by hand 
on the silks of the ear on that same plant. 
This he calls inbreeding—the ear is called 
an "inbred.” He also does the same with 
others of the original varieties. By that 
process, extending through 7 to 10 genera¬ 
tions—several years—he weeds out the un¬ 
desirable traits, and definitely fixes into his 
new offspring the good traits he wants. Then 
he cross-breeds two of his many inbred lines 
—getting a "single-cross.” 
When two such single-crosses are bred up 
to the required point, he crosses them— 
getting a "Double-Cross” or HYBRID! 
Right at that point the resulting corn is 
at the very peak of its producing ability. It 
stands most any test, if the breeding all the 
way has been first class! Hybrid corn can’t 
be any better than the breeding care it gets. 
Planting a field to true, properly bred 
Hoffman Hybrid Seed — right-for-your-sec- 
tion —will bring a surprising experience! 
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CRIB-RUN quality of the corn 
grown from a Hoffman Funk "G" 
Hybrid, by Ira Rohrer, Lititz, Pa. 
Scarcely no nubbins at all—all 
good sound ears! 
_ _ • ._____ 
“Your 218 Hybrid seed 
yielded 37 more bushels 
per acre than my regular 
corn. I am well pleased with 
your Hybrid.” — Jonathon 
Stoltzfus, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Notice the difference in root de¬ 
velopment. ... Regular open- 
pollinated corn, left. Hybrid corn 
on right. The tremendous root 
system bred into Hoffman's Funk 
"G" Hybrids accounts for much 
of their great success. 
