
THE GREAT CROPLAND of Texas and eastern Oklahoma was without 
a good hybrid corn. Like other sections of the country, the southwest crop 
area has its natural enemies which seem to specialize in fighting against good 
corn crops. Hybrids-which had been developed for other areas couldn’t win 
the battle against dry weather and insects in the Southwest. 
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The need was clear. The Funk G-Hybrid Research network concen- 
trated its nationwide resources on the serious business of solving this prob- 
lem. From native southern and southwestern open pollinated strains new 
inbreds were isolated. These were combined with other pure lines to develop 
thousands of different experimental hybrids. Then began the big job of find- 
ing superior combinations that could meet the needs of the Southwest. 
From these thousands of experimental hybrids came one outstanding 
combination. This new hybrid included pure lines from Texas Surecropper, 
from Furgeson’s Yellow Dent, from western Missouri’s Midland Yellow Dent 
. and from the famous Kansas Sunflower. R. L. Jamison of Muskogee, 
Oklahoma, who conducted one of the many proving plots in the Southwest, 
watched it grow—rapidly and vigorously, outstripping the weeds. He watched 
it endure July drouth. He saw it come down the home stretch with sound, 
big ears and good stalks. At harvest time he spoke for tens of thousands of 
his neighbors: ‘‘This is the first hybrid corn that fills the bill here.’’ 
Quickly, the Funk far-flung nationwide proving program revealed that 
Funk G-711 not only met the challenge in Texas and Oklahoma, but also 
had great usefulness in southeast Kansas, southwestern Missouri, Arkansas, 
Tennessee, Kentucky and even in southeastern Virginia. Again, Funk 
Nationwide Research had demonstrated that it could solve local problems 
and pay off in more corn and higher profits. 
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