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ization began working with our native southern open-pollinated 
strains of corn to develop inbred lines. From those inbreds 
came great new Funk’s G-Hybrids that are available for your 
planting this year. Directed by Dr. Jim Holbert (left), one of 
the outstanding corn breeders in America today, our Funk Re- 
search Staff maintains hybrid corn breeding field laboratories 
and testing plots in every state throughout the South from Vir- 
ginia to Texas. 
As soon as a fine new hybrid such as Funk’s G-714 is developed 
by the Funk Research Staff, the job of producing seed begins 
immediately. Several Funk’s G-Hybrid seed production and 
seed processing centers are located in the deep south. Seed 
fields are located on soil of high fertility to give you seed of 
highest quality. As soon as the seed is mature, it is taken to our 
Funk’s G-Hybrid seed corn plant where the job of processing 
begins. 
Here is an important Funk corn breeding nursery in the South. Care- 
fully controlled breeding is done by placing bags over tassels to collect 
pollen and then placing this pollen on ear silks, also covered by bags 
to prevent pollen coming in from any other source. 

Dr. Jim Holbert seen in a southern Funk breeding plot. Dr. Hol- 
bert directs the nation-wide Funk corn breeding program. Hol- 
bert, who began corn breeding work more than 30 years ago, is 
one of the greatest hybrid corn scientists of our time. 
Here the corn is put into special driers where by electronically 
controlled heated air, the moisture of the seed is reduced down 
to safe storage levels. After drying and shelling, the corn is 
carefully checked so that broken kernels and foreign material 
are removed. Then the seed is graded. In the grading ma- 
chines all kernels are sorted out according to their size so that 
when you secure a sack of seed all of the kernels will plant 
quickly and evenly through the same planter openings. Final- 
ly, the seed is treated with chemicals to retard or check seed- 
borne diseases to aid in your securing better stands and higher 
yields. 
Our modern methods of hybrid seed production and processing 
are some of the important reasons why Funk’s G-Hybrids on 
your farm are CONSISTENTLY GOOD YEAR AFTER 
YEAR. 
Here is a Funk's G-Hybrid seed production field located 
here in the South. Our seed is produced only on fields 
of high fertility so that the seed may be of the highest 
possible quality. 

Hand pollination, pictured here as it is done in the Funk's 
G southern nursery. The glass pollen gun places selected 
pollen on silks, which are then covered with a bag (left) to 
protect the ear shoot from any other pollen. 
Funk corn breeders shown injecting corn disease organisms 
into an experimental hybrid to test it for disease resistance. 
Funk hybrids are famous for their freedom from corn diseases. 
