Corn Research Program 

Nationwide G-Hybrid proving plots take a lot of the 
gamble out of corn growing. Here’s how: Across and up and 
down the country are thousands of Funk G-Hybrid test 
plots. They cover the whole range of growing conditions. 
In them—new Funk G-Hybrids can be exposed in a single 
season to most of the variations in weather, soil, insect 
and disease conditions that might ever occur on your farm. 
You don’t have to experiment. You don’t have to guess. 
Thanks to Funk nationwide research, you know what per- 
formance and yields to expect . . . because Funk G-Hybrids 
are adaptation-proved. Every G-Hybrid recommended to 
you by your Funk Dealer has been through the test. It has 
come through the major growing hazards that are likely to 
occur on your farm or in your community. 
Within a short distance from your farm is one of the 
‘‘nerve centers’’ of this nationwide network of Funk 
G-Hybrid research . . . a Funk proving plot. It is head- 
quarters, so far as your corn growing problems are con- 
cerned. In it are tested new hybrids which have been devel- 
oped for possible use in your community. 
We are living in a time when you and your neigh- 
bors realize as never before that research 1s the key 
to better products for better living. We have chosen 
this opportunity to give you an over-all picture of 
nationwide Funk research effort. It is the biggest 
single reason why you can depend upon Funk G- 
Hybrids being Consistently Good... Year After Year. 
LOOK TO FUNK RESEARCH FOR CONTINUED LEADERSHIP IN CORN IMPROVEMENT 
DR. HOLBERT HEADS MOST EXTENSIVE CORN 
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM EVER 
DIRECTED BY ONE MAN! 
Dr. Jim Holbert, the corn scientist who has done more than any other 
man to make possible the widespread use of hybrid corn, directs 
Funk research—the largest corn improvement program ever directed 
by one individual. Funk G-Hybrid research is firmly rooted in every 
area of the United States and Canada where corn is an important crop. 
In every one of these areas dozens of keen observers—for the 
most part men who have been interested in corn improvement many 
years—keep Jim Holbert and his corn breeders informed on every 
phase of the work to develop better Funk G-Hybrids. These men 
are the sensitive nerve tips of the vast Funk nationwide network 
of corn research. To keep in touch with these “roots” of the Funk 
research effort, Jim Holbert and his staff each year travel a quarter 
of a million miles—a distance equal to 10 trips around the earth. 
The Funk nationwide research organization is, in effect, a powerful, 
finely balanced, swift-producing machine for the developing and 
proving of strains of hybrid corn. It has been 

fifty years in the building, first fostered by 

the late E. D. Funk and now by the producers 


of Funk G-Hybrids across the nation. 
