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T. W. WOOD & SONS 
SEEDSMDN SINGS 1879 
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 
Wood’s Hybrid Yellow Dent ears a foot long- with deep closely 
wedged grain covering tip and butt 
WOOD'S EARLY HYBRID CORNS 
Increases Yields 20%—Sound Ears—Deep Roots—Strong Stalks— 
Drought, Storm and Disease-Resistant—No Barren Stalks 
Hybrid com is produced by crossing selected pure inbred lines. This greatly 
increases yields for the same reason a mule has more strength and endurance 
than its parents. An inbred line is produced by placing pollen from the tassel 
on the silks of the same plant, repeatng this operation for about five years. 
This is done by placing paper bags over the tassel and ear shoot before the 
silks appear. This self-fertilization concentrates in the offspring all good or 
Itad inherited characters. Usually over 1,000 lines must be developed and 
tested to find four superior lines with deep roots, strong stalks, resistance to 
disease, and no undesirable characters. A Double Cross Hybrid is produced 
by crossing two lines to form a single cross, and crossing two other 
lines in a separate field. The following year the two single crosses 
are combined. All tassels of one are pulled out before they shed any 
pollen. The ears from detasseled rows furnish the hybrid seed. 
Because hybrid vigor only lasts one year new seed must be obtained 
each year to get the increased yield from hybrid corn. 
Wood’s Hybrid Early Yellow Dent 
WOOD’S HYBRID EARLY YELLOW DENT 
100 days. Consistently outyields other corns in West Virginia, 
mountains of Virginia, Western Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania, 
and New Jersey. A cross between inbreds of Lancaster Surecrop 
and Early Learning, with the same adaptation, but heavier yield, 
larger ears, deeper grain, and more storm and drought-resistant. 
It yielded 122 bushels per acre in a West Virginia Experiment 
Station test. F. P. Cassel, Montgomery Co., I’a.. says: “For sev¬ 
eral years it has outyielded 
all hybrids and local varieties 
in this section. It has hard 
sound grain, and stood up 
when other varieties blew 
down.” B. B. Smith, Baltimore 
Co., Md., says: “It is well 
adapted. Its higher yield cer¬ 
tainly justifies the extra seed 
cost.” 
; WOOD’S HYBRID CORNS 
; are treated free with Seme- 
5 san Jr., allowing earlier 
S planting, reducing disease 
S and materially increasing 
; germination and yield, with 
S greater strength of stalk. 
Wood’s Hybrid Yellow Dent 
still standing at Christmas. 
Eocal varieties had fallen. 
Brown, Cherokee County, 
quicker than other corns, 
per acre. Each stalk bore 
storms.” 
I(rfc\A/A 0*^0 100 days. Wide adaptation across north- 
^"^^ern half of corn belt. Outyielded all certi¬ 
fied hvhrids two years in West Virginia, averaging 2.5.5% 
increased vield over the best local variety at three experi¬ 
ment stations—125 bushels per acre in one test. Highest 
yield at State College, Pa„ outyielding College White Cap 
22% for two years. Very leafy stocky stalk; ears placed 
low and held up all winter. 
II I IlNinm 1 79 100 days. Adapted to central corn belt, 
i ^ Western Maryland, Pennsylvania. 
Highest yielding certified hybrid two years in southern 
West Virginia tests under 1,000 feet, yielding 109.2 
bushels per acre in one test. Highest yield at two central 
Ohio experiment stations. Long ears; strong stalks and 
deep roots. 
IT C go 110 days. Adapted to southern Pennsylvania 
* *■'* " through southern half of corn belt. Storm- 
resistant; only 2% lodged stalks in College Park, Md., 
test, yielding 14 to 33% more than local varieties which 
lodged al)out 12%. Yielded 123.4 bushels per acre, high¬ 
est in Lakin, W. Va., test. 
PRICES OF ADD HYBRID CORNS ON PAGE 45 
WOOD’S HYBRID YELLOW DENT ^y'euow''hySid "’fe! 
veloped in the Middle Atlantic Section extending from the Eastern 
Shore Peninsula through Piedmont Virginia, North Carolina moun¬ 
tains to Kentucky. It is a cross involving Reid’s Yellow Dent, Vir¬ 
ginia Yellow Dent and Lancaster Surecrop inbreds. It is similar in 
appearance and adaptation to Reid’s, but has sounder ears, higher 
yield and is more drought-resistant. J. R. Lintner, County Agent, 
Loudoun, Va., says: “It matures right and is well adapted, yielding 
exceptionally well for two years.” For four years it made the high¬ 
est average yield of any yellow corn in Piedmont and Mountain sec¬ 
tions. J. W. Hayes, Lenoir Co., N. C., says: “It has the liest stalk I 
ever saw. It came through heavy rains that destroyed my regular 
corn, and made a good yield.” G. D. Dutrow, Frederick Co., Md., 
says: “It is better adapted, more disease and storm-resistant, and 
has stronger roots than other hybrids and yields well above other 
corns.” 
It has short stocky stalks and should be planted closer In the 
row. E. L. Bemiss. Chesterfield Co., Va., says: “I planted it so close 
in the row neighbors predicted a failure, yet it produced 115 bushels 
per acre on land that never made over 30 before.” Roasting* ears in 
80 days. Excellent early feed com in the South. M. J. Cliett, Tal¬ 
ladega Co., Ala., says: “60 acres yielded 50 to 65 bushels per acre, 
the best corn crop I ever grew.” It outyielded local varieties 25% in 
the Perquimans Co., N. C., test. 
WOOD’S HYBRID EXTRA EARLY 90 days. Earliest 
yellow dent hybrid 
for the high Alleghany Plateau in West Virginia, Western Md., 
Western I’enn., N. Y., and New England. In our 1939 test of 79 lead¬ 
ing hybrids and varieties it matured first and not a stalk blew down 
in a Ijad storm. It yielded 117 liushels per acre in one test. Wide 
range of adaptation. Its large ears are placed low on a short stockv 
stalk that stands up all winter. One 40-acre field averaged 120 
bushels per acre. 
Earliest feed corn for the South, roasting ears in 69 days. Joe 
N. C., says: “it matured 10 to 20 days 
yet outyielded them, making 98 bushels 
1 to 4 ears, with deep roots, resistant to 
Deft, ordinary corn roots. Right, hybrid 
corn roots. 
