Corn from Seven Nations Flourishes
On Hoffman Plots Near Landisvilie
(Continued from page 6)
labor is being eliminated. De
tassalmg once cost the United
States $lO 5 million per year,
n ow with cytoplasmic sterility
that sum has been reduced tre
mendously.
add to that almost 00 per.
cent national use of hybrids.
“It’s the same as capons or
steers or mules. All our corn
this year is being grown under
(he sterility (cytoplasmic) pro
mam One sex produces no pol
len, which was the prime pur
pose of the detasseling program.
So today we have a “mule corn”,
a top cross hybrid
Plants discovered producing
no pollen were back crossed to
fertile corn plants, the same as
capons or steers. Taking a single
cross (female), back ’crossing it
one year, then producing a
stenle single cross you do not
have to detassel, Mr. Hug con
tinued Pollen production is cut.
Energy that would be spent m
those processes, foods that would
be producing pollen, are now di
veited into grain growth.
That’s cytoplasmic sterility.
There’s more a reason for
this process. It’s an economic
matter. Labor is scarce, or
high priced, and it has been
found detasseling must be
done in the rain to produce
best results. Consequently,
only about one-third of the
crop this year will be manual
ly detasseled.
Com this year is competitive,
definitely, Mr. Hug said, with
an Aug. 11 forecast of 3,143,-
000,000 bu,,down about 32 mil
lion from July, „ and above the
10-year average of 3,084,000,000
“Corn is better rooted than most
think,” he added, allaying pros
pects that winds could topple
the crop in no time at all Penn
sylvania normally produces 52
bushels per acre, Lancaster
County 55 to 59 This year
1906 will be ene of the three
heaviest crops locally, referring
to 1956, 1952 and 1938.
Hybrid seed corns,\ and de
lasselmg gained much ground in
the past 30 years, and in the
last five to eight years reached
its peak. Now with the day of
the sterile single cross separa
tion of plants into male and fe
male you'do not have to de
tassel
In the past five or six years,
theie has been an extreme high
interest in high fertility. “What
population of corn plants will a
Piece of land support’’’
“We plow under 1,000 lbs. of
1010-10 per acre while prepar
ing ground for corn, and during
New, High-Efficiency Feed gives
PffiC PRODUCTION
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planting, we add an additional
400 pounds,” Mr. Hug. explain
ed.
Com plots are not sprayed,
because the firm wants to in
spect damage insects can cause.
This year there has I»een some
borer activity in the Landis
vilie plots, nothing serious; a
little corn has toppled, but a
very small amount.
“Consider also that it takes
50 gallons of water 1 to produce a
bushel of corn,” he added
There are 206 varieties of
corn on the Hoffman plots, with
heavy emphasis on Funk G hy
brids, of course, corn that here
is outproducing the Corn Belt 1
Some of the oddities were plant
ed for the interest they arouse,
and you’ll see purple leaves,
purple husks hiding yellow corn!
There’s popcorn, flint and
with the flour corn, a contrast
between soft and flint is offered
The midget corn grows with nor
mal size ear, yet plants are but
hip high Thei-a are Brachytic
plants, with normal leaves, tele
scoped nodes that bring the ear
closed to the ground.
Maturing dates vary widely
too, and here is rowing corn
that can produce excellent
crops in the chill of northern
Maine and Wisconsin, corn
corn that will produce in the
tropics. G-2 has been planted
as far north as Presque Isle,
Maine. Ten different maturing
dates are to be found now;
some corn is just tasseling,
some just silking, some in
milk stage, some now denting,
some ready for harvest.
But the pride of all Funk is
in Mississippi, where the na
tional production record of 30 4 -
plus bushels per acre is held
by a youngster. It’s part of the
program m which Lancaster
County and Hoffman Seed has ja_
large role where the maxi
mum number of plants per acre
is sought to produce the most
Corn—of the best quality
Frost Threat
Scares County
(Continued from page one)
lowing the rain, temperatures
turned much cooler, bringing
to Lancaster County record
breaking lows for this early in
the fall. In Lancaster Monday
morning, it was 46 degrees, at
the Water Works 37, and in the
30s in other parts of the Gar
den Spot, Bernard S. White of
the Weather Bureau office in
Lancaster advises. Safe Harbor
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Tall Corn from Mexico
Thriving in ancaster County land is this corn from Mex
ico, towering almost 20 feet in the air It’s on plots leased
by the Hoffman Seed Co With the tall “grass” is M. T
(Pod) Kauffman, assistant in the hybrid- corn department
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
had a low of 47, and there was
some light scattered frost.
Saturday through Monday was
quite cool, with a waimmg
trend that took temperatuies up
to 72 degrees Tuesday Fair,
sunny weather prevailed with
mild temperatures, but in the
tive-day outlook there is a
chance of some cooler weather
today, showers likely It may be
warmer Sunday, and there may
be some scattered showers again
Sunday, with total precipitation
lather light.
In August, a total of 362
inches of ram was recorded of
ficially in Lancaster County
against a normal 430 However,
tor the year to date tofal preci
pitation has been close to nor
mal, perhaps an inch and a half
above normal. By now, approxi
mately 32 inches of rain has fal
len since Jan. 1, against a nor
mal of 30. Normal for the year
is 40 to 41 inches
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