— Our Hybrid SEED CORNS 
Why Seed Should Not Be Saved From 
Your Corn Crop Produced From 
Hybrid Seed 
There is one thing about hybrid seed corn 
that many farmers find it difficult to under- 
stand because it runs counter to established 
practice; namely, why it is not practical to 
select and plant seed from a fine field grown 
from hybrid seed. The answer is that the yield 
will drop from 10 to 20 per cent the first year. 
It is easy to see why. Your hybrid seed corn 
is a mixture of four inbreds. In the double cross 
that you plant is the vigor and the relative uni- 
formity secured by crossing. But in the next 
generation, if you take seed corn from that 
field, your uniform, vigorous corn begins to 
break up into different strains. 
Instead of the corn you plant in 1943 looking 
like the hybrid corf produced in 1942 from 
purchased seed, part of it may look like one 
of its grandsires, an inbred with poor stalk 
but high yield; another part may look like 
another grandsire, the inbred that had vigor 
but no particular yielding power, and small 
ears. The field will be uneven, the weak points 
of the inbred ancestors will come to the surface 
and the production will be low. 
It Makes No Difference Where the Seed 
of Any Specific Hybrid Is Grown 
Another thing that farmers have difficulty in 
understanding is why hybrid seed will produce 
well a long distance from where it was pro- 
duced. In the old open-pollinated days farmers 
were told not to buy seed grown outside their 
own county. Good advice, too, because that 
was mongrel corn that was good only because 
it had been selected over the years to fit a 
certain locality. 
But hybrid seed is a definite combination of 
characters. If one of those characters is drought- 
resistance the corn will resist drought in Missis- 
sippi even though the seed was grown in TIli- 
nois. If one of those characters is early matu- 
rity it will get ripe early in Tennessee even 
though the seed was grown in Mississippi or 
Louisiana. 
The important thing in hybrid corns is not 
where they were grown, but what their charac- 
teristics are. 
Important Recommendations for the 
Purchasers of Hybrid Corns 
We recommend that Hybrid Corns be planted 
in fields which are at least average in fertility. 
If planted on worn-out soil, commercial fertilizer 
should be used. 
We strongly recommend that no soy beans or 
peanuts be planted with Hybrid Corns. Hybrid 
Corns will stand a heavier rate of planting 
than open pollinated corns, but if maximum 
yields per acre are to be realized auxiliary 
crops should not be planted. These crops take 
moisture and soil fertility away from the corn. 
If a corn crop is to be grown, the important 
thing is to grow as much corn as possible, 
We recommend that Hybrid Corns be planted 
at the minimum planting rate of 18 inches apart 
in the row and in rows no wider than 42 inches. 
By using new methods of planting, by proper 
tillage and fertilization technique, and by using 
our Hybrid seed, it is now possible for the 
Southern planter to grow normal corn belt 
crops of corn. In hundreds of cases last year, 
by using this new technique, Southern planters 
increased their corn yields tremendously over 
the average yield of corn for their territory. 
Corn is becoming an increasingly more impor- 
tant crop in the South and anyone who devotes 
acreage to it should acquaint himself with the 
latest and most improved methods of growing 
corn. 
Will prevent crows or 
other corn-pulling birds 
and animals from de- 
stroying or pulling the 
seed. Protects seed from 
rotting; non-poisonous 
to human, animal and 
pet life; will not gum 
or clog the planter; non- 
injurious to any variety 
of corn. 14 pint treats 1 
bushel of seéd corn. I 
pt. can, 30c; 1 pt. can, 
45c; 1 qt. can, 65c; 1 
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* Outstanding VARTETIES - 
Make Your Choice from these 
Tennessee Paymaster Hybrids 
Nos. 3, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 
The University of Tennessee Agricultural 
Experiment Station has been working on Pay- 
master Hybrids for a number of years and 
experiment station tests have shown them to 
be exceptionally good. These hybrids are made 
by combining inbreds from the high yielding 
prolific open pollinated variety Neal Paymas- 
ter. Thus they are all more or less similar to 
Neal Paymaster in having white grain, red cob, 
prolificacy, and high shelling percent. These 
hybrids are more uniform and lower eared than 
Neal Paymaster. Over a period of years these 
Tennessee Hybrids have outyielded open pol- 
linated Neal Paymaster appreciably. We will 
have several of these Hybrids this season. 









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