Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, is in the peculiar situation of being a hybrid university. It is private in most respects, but it has financial dependence on the state. This makes Rutgers University more uneasy about its actions than some private schools, but not so fearful of direct interference as most state universities...
Miracle of the Seed. Farmer Pfister (rhymes with Easter) is the biggest U.S. individual grower of hybrid seed corn. This year his six-year-old Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. will gross about $1,500,000, net some $60,000 to $70,000, which Lester...
...same time, 26,000 corn belt farmers from eastern Ohio to middle Nebraska are planting his seed corn-and by late .summer the tassels of Pfister strains will have over 5,000,000 acres. The hardy hybrid corns, grown by Pfister and others,* have wrought a U.S. agricultural revolution. Last year they pushed the national average yield of corn, once only 25 bu. per acre, to a record 42.7 bu. In Pfister's own county, the yield was 66 bu. per acre...
...went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...
...five biggest U.S. producers of hybrid seed corn: De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association Inc.; Pfister Associated Growers Inc. (which Pfister started and later left); Henry Wallace's Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, Iowa; Edward J. Funk & Sons of Kentland, Ind.; Pfister Hybrid Corn...