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WOOD’S HYBRID CORNS 
LEAD THE WAY TO INCREASED PROSPERITY 
Yield 10 to 25 Bushels More Per Acre. 
Deep Roots. Strong Stalks. 
Drought, Storm and Disease-Resistant. Sound Ears. No Barren Stalks. 
Virginia Department of agriculture 
says: “General use of hybrid seed in every 
corn producing state seems likely in the 
near future. Over half the corn growers in 
many states have already shifted. Adapted 
hybrids withstand drought and storms and 
increase yields 20%, lowering the produc- 
tion cost per bushel. 2 bushels increase 
pays for the extra labor of harvesting and 
cost of seed. This advantage will force out 
of corn production the farmers who do not 
shift. Southern and Hastern farmers must 
make this adjustment. The way to higher 
standards of living does not lie in lagging 
behind, but in adjusting ourselves as quick- 
ly as possible.” 

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Left, roots of ordinary corn. Right, 
Wood’s Hybrid Extra Early roots so deep 
a husky farmer offered $5 to pull up a 
singie stalk was unable to do so. 
Thousands of acres planted in Wood’s 
Hybrid Corn, more than ali other hybrids 
in the South and East. Hybrid corn isa 
eross of selected pure lines, self fertilized 
5 years. Like a mule, it has more strength 
and endurance than its parents. After 14 
years we have developed a great number of 
inbred lines from all popular corns in the 
South and East. The superior lines with 
deep roots, strong stalks, resistance to dis- 
ease and good shucks, are crossed and test- 
ed to find the best hybrid for each section. 
Wood’s Hybrid Corns are the crosses 
which make highest yields in our own 
breeding plots from Florida to Pennsyl- 
vania, and in hundreds of tests by state ex- 
periment stations and county agents from 
Texas to Vermont. We grow our various 
hvbrids in different states to insure correct 
adaptation. 
Wood’s Hybrid Seedling is treated with 
Semesan Jr. to avoid seedling blight, and 
increase germination and stands 5% to 25%. 
Plant on good land, 4 closer in the row; 
fertilize heavily; cultivate like other corn. 

Hybrid Yellow Sweepstakes (left row), 
compared to a good variety. “It made a 
fine stalk yielding much more grain than 
Reid’s Yellow Dent.”—G. B. Allison, Rock- 
bridge, Va., County Agent. 
“T am so well pleased with Wood’s Hy- 
brid Extra Early and Hybrid Sweepstakes, 
I am planting twice as much this year.’’— 
R. E. Corbin, Grand Isle Co., Vt. 
Wood’s Hybrid Early Yellow 
100 Days. Our best hybrid for West Vir- 
ginia, Eastern Penn. and New Jersey. A 
cross between inbreds of Lancaster Sure- 
crop and Early Leaming, with the same 
adaptation, but heavier yield, larger ears, 
deeper grain and more storm and drought 
resistant. It yielded 122 bus. per acre in a 
West Virginia Exp. Station test, In the 
New Jersey test it outyielded N. J. Certi- 
fied varieties 22 to 36%. It outyielded Reid’s 
Yellow Dent 45% in a Virginia test. 
“Tt grew quickly, made a good crop in 
extremely dry weather on high dry moun- 
tain land, and stood like a rock in a storm 
that blew down my regular corn, and 
yielded a third more.’—J. M. Galloway, 
Lincoln Co., W. Va. 
“Tt produced 110 bushels per acre, double 
my yield with other varieties.’”—L. Sample, 
Somerset Co., N. J 
“Wor several 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.’—F. P. Cassel, 
Montgomery Co., Pa. 
Maryland Expt. Station: ‘‘Wood’s Hybrid 
Early Yellow looked good in the field with 
tall, strong stalks and large ears. Of the 
60 corns tested, it made one of the highest 
yields, and had only 3% lodged stalks. It 
considerably outyielded all local varieties, 
lodging.” 
which averaged 25% 

Strong upright stalks of 
Wood’s Hybrid Yellow Dent at 
Christmas, other corn was flat. 
It yielded so much better than 
my regular corn I wouldn’t have 
enough cribs to house it if all 
my crop was hybrid.”—Duke 
Robb, Caroline Co., Md. 
Wood’s Hybrid Yellow 
Sweepstakes Ensilage 
100 days. The best ensilage corn where 
seasons are short, or where part is left for 
husking. <A cross between inbreds of the 
best early husking corns and Yellow Sweep- 
stakes, It produces considerably more 
grain and ‘silage than standard ensilage va- 
rieties and has much stronger stalks. Vir- 
ginia Expt. Station says: “It gave one of 
the highest grain yields of the 60 hybrids 
tested, Higher percentage of grain to fod- 
der. Stood up better in storms, often worth 
the cost of seed in the saving at harvest.” 
D. H. Kuhn, Hardy Co., W. Va.: “It was 
a good success, the finest of all corns grown 
in our valley.” B. H. Allen, Burlington Co,, 
N. J.: “It surpassed any corn I ever planted 
and was more resistant to corn borer. The 
stalks and ears were very large, foliage 
thick, and started right at the ground.” 
Connecticut Expt. Sta.: “It yielded 98.9 
bushels of grain and 30 tons of green silage 
per acre, near the record yield here, averag- 
ing 40% more grain and 35% more silage 
than other ensilage corns.” 


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“wood’s Hybrid Extra Early made a 
record yield. I advised everyone to plant é 
it.”—'T. M. Elliott, Raleigh Co., W. Va. Ate 
Wood’s Hybrid Extra Early 
90 days to.mature. Earliest yellow dent 
hybrid for the Alleghany Plateau, N. Y., and 
New England. Earliest feed corn for the 
South, Roasting ears in 60 days. In our 
test of 79 leading corns it matured first, 
made a splendid yield, and not a stalk blew 
down in a bad storm that knocked down 
half of some varieties. Its large ears are 
placed low on a short stocky stalk that 
stands up all winter. Wide adaptation. 
“It is 20 days earlier than other corns, 
yet outyielded them. Made 98 bus. per acre, 
1 to 4 ears per stalk. Deep roots, storm re- 
sistant.”’—Joe Brown, Cherokee Co., N. C. 
A Virginia experiment station reports: “It 
is the ideal extra early feed corn for the 
South, especially for hogs. It was very dry 
in June and July and heavy wind July 13, 
but all of Wood’s Hybrids showed up very 
well without suffering like local varieties.” 
“T was well pleased with Hybrid Extra 
Early. It withstood the drought, had a 
strong deep root system, good stalk, and 
yielded better than common varieties. It 
was so much more profitable I will want 
considerably more next year,’—R, Teel, 
Warren Co., N. J. 
“Wood's Hybrid Extra Harly eared well 
and made a splendid yield, fine for grain or 
US lane oe Moore, Chautauqua Co., 
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CERTIFIED CORN BELT HYBRIDS 
OHIO K-23, 92 days—Adapted to high ele- 
vations in West Va. and Penn.; N. Y. and : 
New England. : ve 
IOWA 939, 100 Days-—Medium tall. Single 
ear. Kernels medium long. Good early hy- é 
brid of wide adaptation to higher elevations j 
in West Va., Md., and Western Pennsylva- 
nia, for grain or silage. 
OHIO W-17, 100 days—Same adaptation. 
OHIO K-23, 90 days—Same adaptation. 
U. S. 65. 105 days—Tall. Ears smooth, 
medium size, 16 to 18 rows of medium ker-. 
nels. Adapted to West Va., Penn., and N. J. 
U. S. 44, 111 Days—Medium tall. Adapted © 
to lower West Va., Md., and Southeast Penn., 
for grain; or for ensilage farther north. 
U. S. 13, 115 days—Large ears, medium 
long kernels. Extra high yield, Tall, strong 
stalks. Same adaptation as U. S: 44. 4 
KENTUCKY Y-102, 120 Days—Good yel- 
low hybrid for Kentucky, Va., and Md. 
Wood’s Hybrid Red 
Sweepstakes Ensilage 
110 days to silage. In Middle Atlantic and 
Central States it produces the maximum 
yield per acre of silage, grain, protein, vita- 
mins and feeding value. Quick, vigorous — 
growth 100% of its tall, thick, stocky — 
stalks stood up in a storm last summer that 
blew oth +r varieties down as much as 50%. 
Its wide leaves are close together and stay | 
green after the ears ripen. Two big ears 
per stalk, large red grains. Stalks usually 
weigh a fourth more than equally tall 
stalks of other varieties, with more grain ~ 
and feeding value. t is a cross between 
Pamunkey Ensilage and West Branch — 
Sweepstakes, it has outyielded other en- 
Silage varieties and hybrids in experimcnt — 
station tests in practically every eastern — 
state, producing 29.3 tons of silage per acre | 
in one test, 60% more than leading local en- — 
silage varieties. It outyielded the leading 
local variety and 37 hybrids in a Newark, 
Del., test, had no barren stalks, and 99% 
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