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It’s the breeding inside that counts! Funk G-Hybrid 
Round Kernel Grades carry the same inheritance, 
germination and planter accuracy guarantee as flats. 
Ask your G-Hybrid Dealer how you can widen your 
selection and save money by specifying round kernels. 
FLATS LIKE ME ARE 
SOMETIMES 
HARD TO GET-— 
AND YOU COST 
LESS, 700! 




I'VE GOT MORE 
STARCH IN ME- 
AND MORE STARCH 
MEANS MORE START! 





THIRTY YEARS OF MIDWEST FARM PERFORMANCE 
ARE BACK OF YOUR FUNK G-HYBRID SEED 
Yes, your Funk G-Hy- 
brid seed corn is a prod- 
uct of the oldest, as well 
as the most intensive, re- 
search and development 
program in the hybrid 
corn industry. This origi- 
nal order and bill of Jad- 
ing, dated to an Ohio 
customer in 1916, is the 
first documentary record of the sale of hybrid seed corn 
for farm use. 
But, even before this record, the history of Funk seed 
corn development goes back another quarter century from 
the 20-acre seed field from which this first commercial 


Each of these early scenes show Funk con- 
tributions to a half-century of corn improve- 
ment. “‘Selfing” to inbreed plants (below) 
began on Funk Farms in 1902. developing pure lines. 

Though not yet “fixed,” these inbreds in 
1904 show uniformity and dwarfing char- 
acteristics that are advanced stages in 
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“Shape of the package”’ 
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Results are 









BEFORE 
YOU ORDER 



SEED CORN... 
when you plant 





here’s something 
you should know 
hybrid was produced. The late “Gene” Funk, founder of 
Funk Bros. Seed Co. became seriously interested in such 
corn for the first time in 1892. Inbreeding, hand pollina- 
tions, detasseling and other hybrid techniques were em- 
ployed on Funk Farms at the turn of the century. At the 
Funk Farms Nurseries, first as a student of Gene Funk, then 
as senior agronomist of the U.S.D.A. Funk Farms Stations, 
Dr. Jim Holbert, originated many of the successful inbreds 
upon which the hybrid industry is founded. 
Now associated with Mr. Funk’s sons as director of 
Funk Bros. Hybrid Corn Research Department, Dr. Hol- 
bert has expanded Funk Farms research into a tremendous 
machine for creating, developing and checking strains of 
Funk G-Hybrids. In strategically located breeding nurs- 
series, on more than 3,000 proving plots, in laboratories, 
production areas and processing plants, Funk scientists 
and seedsmen carry on the work that keeps Funk G-Hy- 
brids Consistently Better ... as well as “Consistently Good 
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Probably the first photo of a detasseled seed 
production field, this picture was taken on 
Funk Farms in 1906 for an illustration in a 
book on plant breeding by DeVries. 



Dr. Jim Holbert, director of Funk's Research and 
Breeding Program. As senior agronomist of the 
U.S.D.A., Dr. Holbert created more standard inbreds 
used throughout the hybrid industry than any other 
breeder. For ten years his improved inbreds and 
new creations have been available only in Funk 
G-Hybrids. 
Yield tests were a part of the Funk corn 
breeding program even before this photo 
was made in 1906. The corn is the famous 
early variety, Funk's 90-Day. 

