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T. W. WOOD & SONS =- 
SEEDSMEN SINCE 1879 - RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 

SELLING 
Wood's Hybrid White Prolific corn 
has tall thick stalks, with a massive 
root development. Many years of 
breeding were necessary in order to 
combine these characters for lodging 
resistance in one corn. Each stalk of 
this hybrid produces from two to 
four large well-filled ears with ex- 
cellent husk protection. 

WOOD'S HYBRID CORNS 
ITSELF TO THOUSANDS — LEADING 
Wood’s Adapted Hybrid Seed Corns 
SET THE PACE IN THE SOUTH 
Adaptability to your soil and seasonal conditions—more shelled grain per acre—high re- 
sistance to insects, drought, disease and heavy winds! These are the virtues that have con- 
sistently kept WOOD’S HYBRIDS out in front. 
Growers of “Tested Seeds” for 63 years, T. W. Wood & Sons is the oldest and largest 
producer of hybrid seed corn in the South. Taught by experience, we know what your needs 
are. For you, in 1942 more than 5,000 acres of the most fertile southern land will produce 
Wood’s Hybrid Seed Corn—ADATED HYBRIDS TO MEET YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL 
REQUIREMENTS. No matter where you live—Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala- 
bama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, West Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky or Pennsylvania—we have a hybrid for you that will far surpass any corn 
you’ve ever grown. Because of our widespread growing area, and because Wood’s Hybrids 
are Bred from Native Southern Varieties, you are assured of the proper adaptation. 
Remember this always: The adaptability of a hybrid to your growing conditions should 
be your first consideration. It is its most important characteristic. It is the first measure of 
its value. Regardless of its merit elsewhere, if it is not adapted to your particular soil and 
season, it is utterly worthless to you. 
Proper adaptation, more than any other single standard, has contributed to the phenome- 
nal success of our hybrids. The tremendous increase in sales of Wood’s Hybrid Seed Corn 
each year shows its superiority over other corns offered the Southern planter. 
Fifteen years ago, T. W. Wood & Sons launched the first commercial Hybrid Corn Breed- 
ing Program in the South—an undertaking destined to grow in scope to the South’s most 
extensive similar enterprise. Based on our long experience with corn varieties, one salient 
fact stood out—adaptability, in a hybrid, cannot be acquired, it must be bred from adapted 
foundation stocks. 
Every Southern Experiment Station is in agreement on this point: Northern and Corn 
Belt materials, alone, will never make a satisfactory hybrid for the South. Perhaps, out- 
standing in their natural environ- : ene 
ment, they don’t have the stuff it : Ava 
takes in the South—late maturity ; 
long, thick, tight shucks; hardness 
of grain, and prolificacy. 
This truth became the nucleus 
of our breeding policies, around 
which everything else has re- 
volved. We realized the folly of 
wasting our time on unadapted 
materials, and concentrated our 
attention on native corn varieties 
—the logical source of Southern 
hybrid vigor. 
Thousands of dollars have been 
spent to bring you the best South- 
ern corn that money can buy. The 
South’s biggest Corn Breeding 
Program contains a wealth of sen- 
sational inbred lines, derived from 
sixty-seven distinctly different 
open pollineated varieties. Our 
highly competent research staff, 
after careful study, selected only 
high yielding parent varieties with 
consideration for their adaptabil- 
ity to Southern conditions. These 
strains are popular native corns in 
the various sections lying between 
Texas and Pennsylvania. Each va- 
riety was chosen because it ex- 
hibited the characters that would 
be necessary in a hybrid designed 
for a specified area. 
Last year in our breeding nur- 
series scattered throughout the 
South, 72,494 successful hand pol- 
linations were made. In our test 


ROOT COMPARISON 
Right, roots of a popular open-pollinated variety of corn. 
Left, roots of Wood’s Hybrid White Dent showing a marked 
contrast in development. Both corns were produced on 
similar soils under comparable growing conditions. A good 
root system enables this hybrid to withstand drought, 
storms and other adverse weather conditions, while most 
varieties fail. 
