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“This is about the way hybrid corn on good soil and under good management beats the 
Tennessee state average. County Commissioner O. B. Ellis (left), Manager of the 
Shelby County Penal farm expects better than 75 bushels to the acre from 1,150 acres of ; 
hybrid corn while the state average last year was only 25 bushels. Dr. J. R. Holbert af 
(right), breeder and manager for Funk Bros., seems to take pride in the comparison be- 
tween the Penal Farm and the state average.” 

The above photograph and article appeared on page 5 of the Dec. issue of the Progressive Farmer. 
The yield of FUNK’S G HYBRID CORN produced on Modern hybrid corn breeding is raising the ceiling 0 
outstanding farms in Tennessee checks closely with that corn: production for our southern farmers so that it i 
of similar farms in Arkansas and northern Mississippi possible to plan for yields year in-and year out that wil 
when well adavted modern hybrids have been used on average 15 to 40 per cent more corn than it has been 
land where soil fertility is maintained at a high level. possible to harvest from open pollinated fields. 



