
Mature ears on green stalks! Here are 
two pictures of the same plants showing 
the ears before and after the shucks 
were pulled back. Read this page and 
see how Funk Corn Breeders have im- 
proved your chance for high stalk 
quality by developing Funk’s G-Hybrids 
that stay green a few days after the 
ears have become practically mature. 










sible for farmers to grow corn that 
can produce record yields on stalks 
of outstanding quality. However, get- 
ting high yields of corn on stalks that 
stand is a matter of environment as 
well as heredity, consequently the 
final success in your corn field de- 
pends fully as much upon develop- 
ments after the corn is planted as 
upon breeding and research done 
in Funk nurseries and laboratories. 
Funk Hybrid Corn Research scientists have 
developed strains of corn which can—and do— 
spread out the major operations of building a 
massive root system, forming a big ear and 
maturing a stout stalk. This means that the peak 
demands for glucose needed for these different 
parts of the plant do not come at exactly the 
same time. It explains why you often see a ripe 
ear and dry husks on a Funk’s G-Hybrid plant 
whose stalk and leaves are still green . . . rather 
than having husks and stalk turn brown to- 
gether, as they do on outmoded hybrids and 
most open pollinated strains. 
In early fall, you may see field after field of 
Funk’s G-Hybrids with mature ears already dry- 
These photographs of Funk’s G-Hybrids were taken about two 
weeks later than the ones shown at the top of the page. The ears 
are now drying rapidly —but leaves and stalks are still partly green. 
ing, while the leaves, still green, continue to 
make additional glucose which is converted at 
once into cellulose, lignin and other materials 
which reenforce the fully matured stalk like steel 
rods reenforce a concrete post. Too, this addi- 
tional glucose. can make protective substances 
which make modern Funk’s G-Hybrids highly 
resistant to stalk rot disease. 
However, the stalk is well on its way to 
maturity before the ear is ripe+The ear and stalk 
formative _periods overlap, but the few addi- 
tional days of active plant life are an added 
value. This overlapping is especially important 
in the Northern Corn Belt where early frosts 
may suddenly end the production of glucose. 
Ten days later both the ear.and stalk are fully mature. The stalk 
will stand and protect the ear indefinitely from winter weather— 
a fine tribute to Funk Hybrid Corn Research and to good farming. 

