ONLY ne CORN OUTFIT CAN MAKE 
Every man who grows corn wants to get the best possible corn per- 
formance on his farm. Getting a profitable corn crop used to be a big 
gamble, with the odds all against you. Weather, insects and disease 
ganged up to take away a portion of your crop—and there wasn't any- 
thing YOU could do about it. 
But research—creator of modern miracles—has doue something 
about it. Hybrid corn is a result of research. But hybrid corn in itself 
is not the whole answer. There remains the problem of concentrating 
the benefits of corn research on YOUR farm. One corn organization in 
the United States has geared itself to do this job. 
*Funk G Hybrids Are the Product of the Broadest and Most 
Detailed Corn Research Job Ever Carried On by a Single Organi- 
zation Engaged in the Production of Seed Corn 
Only one corn outfit can make and prove this claim. We, the pro- 
ducers of Funk G Hybrids, make it proudly. 
In a few sentences, this is how this program works. One vital branch 
of this organization devotes its whole effort of finding the best qualities 
of the best native strains gathered from wherever corn grows. It de- 
velops and improves these characteristics, eliminating the defects. It is 
continually experimenting with combinations of these strains to KNOW 
which combination will give the best results under any set of conditions. 
Another vital branch of this Funk G research organization—there is 
one in every corn-growing region of the United States—is continuously 
THIS IS HOW HOFFMAN-FUNK 
RESEARCH PROGRAM WORKS 

1. Here’s one example. 
short seasons needed 
would mature safely. 
Farmers with 
2. A complete report on climate, soils, 
farming habits was sent by Hoff- 
man to Funk Experimental Farms. 
corn that 
2 
3. At the Farms a number of experi- 
mental hybrids were developed. 
studying conditions under which corn is grown—climate, weather, 
soils, insect enemies and disease. With all these data it tells headquarters, 
“Build us the best hybrid to meet this set of conditions.” Only the man 
right in the territory can set up those specifications, and he can do it 
only if he has research training and the facilities for scientific obser- 
vation, 
BREEDING THE BEST HYBRID FOR YOU 
To meet these local specifications, headquarters can put together a 
dozen hybrid combinations—all of which will do the job better than 
any open-pollinated corn in that territory. But which combination is 
the BEST? (Remember—you want the best performance.) To determine 
this point, this Funk G research organization takes another important 
step. It sends all those hybrid combinations to be planted in research 
plots. These plots are located right in the territory and there are suffi- 
cient test plots in each territory to guarantee that each hybrid combina- 
tion will be tested on the various soils as well as in different weather 
conditions. When the results of these tests are studied (including all 
factors of growth, stamina and production), this Funk G corn organiza- 
tion KNOWS which are the best hybrids. 
The research organization for Funk G Hybrids in this territory is 
Hoffman. And as a result of this research, Hoffman is in position to 
prove that, year in and year out, the corn grower who depends on 
Funk G Hybrids can also depend on getting the best performance from 
his corn field. 




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4. These were tested in Hoffman Prov- 
ing Grounds in actual regions where 
needed. strengthening. 
5. The Funk and Hoffman men studied 
results, selecting certain types for 
