DOES THE PRODUCTION 
OF HYBRID SEED CORN 
REQUIRE SPECIAL FIELDS? 
If the seed fields are not isolated from other 
corn, pollen will be blown in by the wind and the 
seed will be impure. The purchaser of that seed 
will pay for hybrid but he will not get a pure hybrid. 
Nature made the Jacques farms especially for pro- 
ducing hybrid seed corn. For seed fields, Jacques 
prefers fertile valleys, surrounded by hills and trees 
and that is one reason why Jacques Hybrid Seed 
Corn is famous for its extra purity. 
IS DETASSELING 

IMPORTANT ? 

Your hybrid seed corn is produced by planting 
: two unrelated corns in the same field and pulling 
the tassels out of one of these so that all the ears 
on the detasseled stalks necessarily have to get 
their pollen from the other stalks. The corn that 
is detasseled is called the ‘‘female’’ and seed is 
saved only from the detasseled, or ‘‘female’’ stalks. 
’ If a tassel is left on a single female stalk, it may 
pollinate as many as fifteen million kernels and 
none of these fifteen million kernels will be a 
genuine hybrid! One of the reasons why Jacques 
Proven Hybrids are extra pure is that the seed 
fields are detasseled every twelve hours during the 
season when corn is tasseling and silking and the 
thoroughness of detasseling is double checked not 
only by Jacques own experienced supervisors but 
also by Official State Supervisors. The state main- 
tains a building right on the Jacques farms and a 
state man is constantly on hand during the de- 
tasseling season. 










Each seed \ 
ear is indi- rf 
vidually f 
inspected i 
and all loose I 
corn is dis- : 
carded. ' 
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