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You will notice from this picture we still use horses and mules in farming. Seldom do 
we have horses in the barn or pasture and tractors burning up gas. We use all John Deere 
farming equipment. 
THREE OUTSTANDING 
HYBRIDS, K-374 - K-99 - K-42 
Of all the hybrids we have ever 
produced, these three are the best 
for the Central Corn Belt. In mak- 
ing up your order, do not overlook 
these exceptionally high-yielding 
hybrids. 
K-374 BLACK CROW, FIREPROOF HYBRID 
This was named Black Crow by one of our dealers because of the real dark green color. 
We call it fireproof because it will stand more heat and drouth than any hybrid we ever 
tested. It also has the widest adaptation to different soil types of any hybrid we have ever 
grown. Of course, this hybrid is like all hybrids in that it does best on good types of soil 
and cannot produce a big crop where the soil does not contain sufficient plant food to do so. 
This is the greatest hybrid we ever produced. Every other hybrid corn producer will 
tell you he has the best hybrids which is only natural, but our proof of this is the demand 
for K 374 year after year and letters telling us it is “the best hybrid we ever planted’. 
Six years ago we produced 38 rows of K 374 80 rods long. Every year we have increased 
this acreage until this year we will have about 28,000 bushels of K 374, but this will not be 
half enough. One of our Nebraska agents sent us an order for 1,000 bushels of K 374. 
Another Northeastern Nebraska dealer, who sold 2,280 bushels of corn for us the past year, 
wanted to contract 5,000 bushels and all K 374. We have many other dealers who want to 
sell nothing but K 374, but this is not the only hybrid we produced and must divide it up. 
Therefore, we are limiting all orders to not over half the order K374. The other half 
is to be selected from the 14 other hybrids we have to offer. Plant any other hybrid by the 
side of K 374 and you will be writing us about how it out-yields all other hybrids as hun- 
dreds now are doing. 
1941 INDIANA CORN PERFORMANCE TEST ISSUED JAN. 14, 1942 
Table 6. Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana 
K-374 

Water in 
Yield Acre Lodged Damaged Kernels Ears 
Rank Entry Yield Plants Kernels at Husking Dropped 
bu. pet. pet. pet. pet. 
1 Troyer Ml 97.6 18 3.2 14.5 1.3 
2 Kelly K374 97.0 16 0.3 14,1 2.0 
3 yGlancy F5 95.6 5 0.2 14.6 | 1,3 
4 HHB Wyckoff W46 95.4 20 168 15.8 2.7 
5 Troyer L19 94.8 40 12.0 15.6 0.0 
The above shows five top hybrids out of 96 hybrids in the Indiana official test at La- 
Fayette. 
You will note our K374 which made only .6 of one bushel less than the top hybrid showed 
16% lodged plants compared with one showing 40 lodged plants. Damaged kernels only 0.3, 
Shows a very high grade, the top hybrid having more than ten times as many damaged 
kernels. Also note the moisture content. is lowest of any of the five hybrids. Ears dropped 
showed 2%. This is very unusual and would not happen more than once in ten years. How- 
ever, in the complete table, six hybrids in this test show 5% or more dropped ears. 
Table 5, Indiana Official Corn Test, Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Ind. 
Kelly’s K374 show the highest yield over a three years period of any hybrid in the offic- 
ial test, making an average of 90.1 yield. 
You can see our K874 is not only the highest for one year but is consistent high yielder. 
