No Unknown , Untried Hybrid Sold Here 
A GREAT BREEDER AT 
WORK WITH GREAT HY¬ 
BRIDS USING SOME OF THE 
BLOOD-LINES OF A GREAT 
OLD VARIETY — > 
The great old variety is "Lan¬ 
caster County Sure Crop." The 
breeder is Dr. J. R. ("Jim") 
Holbert, of the Funk Bros. 
Seed Co., Bloomington, Ill. 
Examine this picture. It 
shows two types of corn. 
Notice how different they are. 
One has thick, very upright 
leaves. The other is very 
short, with great tassels. This 
picture could show only two, 
out of some twenty different 
types that were growing in 
this nursery. But they were 
all different! Tall, short, leafy, 
long- eared, short - eared — all 
sorts. But—all of them were 
coming out of original Lan¬ 
caster County Sure Crop! 
Careful inbreeding by Dr. 
Holbert has broken apart the 
different blood-lines that went 
to make up the original corn. 
By this inbreeding program, 
Dr. Holbert identifies the good 
traits and the bad. Discards 
the bad. Keeps the good. 
They are later used in making 
good single-crosses, finally 
becoming a part of a great 
Funk "G" Hybrid. A number 
of today's very good Funk 
"G" Hybrids have some Lan¬ 
caster County Sure Crop blood 
in them. 
“As you know, it has been a 
rather hard season for grow¬ 
ing crops, but in measuring 
the yield, I found I had 
gotten 85 bushels of corn per 
acre, of which 99 per cent was 
hard, of the Funk ‘G 63’ 
Hybrid I purchased from you 
last spring. The average yield 
in this section is in the neigh¬ 
borhood of 50 to 55 bushels 
of open-pollinated corn to the 
acre. Of course, I also no¬ 
ticed the uniformity of the 
ears and that the corn was 
much easier, on the men and 
myself, to husk .”—George 
Gould, Effort, Pa. 
Jloffman's 
REAL BREEDING BACK OF 
HOFFMAN'S FUNK "G" HYBRIDS 
More than 100,000 plants are self-pollinated (inbred) each 
summer, in the Funk "G” Breeding Nurseries. All this is done 
by hand in less than three weeks—by an army of skilled work¬ 
men. This is all done to develop new Funk "G” Inbreds. It 
takes 5 to 7 years of this careful hand-inbreeding to develop 
and fix into one inbred the desired characteristics. . . . Then 
those inbreds must be tested for a similar period of time, be¬ 
fore they can qualify for worthy parents for the famous Funk 
"G” Hybrids. Then after proper mating of pairs of such 
inbreds, result the "single-crosses.” These are studied, tested, 
and if they come up to rigid requirements, they are selected 
for the next step, namely double-crossing. The resulting 
double-cross, after years of testing and proving, is then offered 
to you as an established Funk "G” Hybrid. . . . This is no 
work for careless, or ignorant, or lazy people. It requires the 
highest talent and care with every single step, through all 
those many years. 
MUST HYBRID SEED BE BRED LOCALLY? 
The answer is "No.” Hoffman Funk "G” Hybrid Seed is so 
different from regular corn. It must not first be acclimated be¬ 
fore it is good for local planting! That is often true about 
regular, open-pollinated varieties. But this hybrid seed, 
where the parentage (pollenizing) is controlled by definite 
fixed methods—HAS BEEN produced in Spain, Australia, and 
other far-away places—and when planted in various places 
back here in America, has done just as well as local seed! 
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