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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...corn in Missouri during the ten-year period, 1911-1920, was twenty-seven bushels. Many farmers have made yields two or three times as high as this during the same period, and it is certain that the average yield per acre can be increased at least twenty-five per cent by practices which would not increase the cost of production. Sixteen years of investigations have been conducted in all sections of Missouri to determine the varieties of corn best adapted and most productive in each section. More than fifty varieties were tested in a preliminary way at Columbia and the best of these were further tested for many years on eight outlying experiment fields and in four hundred and sixty-seven cooperative tests on Missouri farms. The results of the entire series of tests are published in Bulletin 182 entitled "Corn in Missouri." Six varieties of corn were the outstanding leaders in all these tests. Some of the six led in each section of the state and in most cases all of the six out-yielded all other varieties. Here are the six: "Boone County While: A medium late maturing variety of white corn very extensively grown in Missouri, especially in the river bottoms and on the better uplands. In these tests it was the best yielding variety on bottom lands in all parts of the state and one of the leaders on uplands throughout central and southern Missouri. The variety Johnson County White is so similar to Boone County White in general features and adaptation that for practical purposes the two varieties may be considered as one. "Commercial While: A late maturing variety of white corn grown fairly extensively in southwestern Missouri, where it was originated. In these tests it was the highest yielding variety throughout central and southern Missouri an...
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