IT HAS TAKEN 
27 YEARS TO 
In their present state of perfection, the 187 Hybrids 
represent a total of 27 years of constant study, 
selection, breeding and cross breeding. In his early 
hybrid-producing days, Lester Pfister loft-dried his 
best ears in his first seedhouse shown in the pictures 
on this page. In the illustration above, Lester is run- 
ning seed through his first grader, which, though 
obviously of crude construction, was considerably 
faster and more accurate than hand grading. The 
pictures on the right-hand page show types of 
machines now used in the same operation. The spec- 
tacular difference between the past and present 
graders represents thousands of little adjustments and 
improvements. 
