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An Early Seed Corn Plant 1927 pic

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John B.

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I never have saw a seed house like this when I was growing up. Has anyone else?

Looks pretty neat.
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That looks cool. Add a little steam on top of the stove and you can have corn on the cob for dinner.

Rick
 
John---I've never seen this arrangement of saving ears of corn for next year's seed. But I remember all the finishing nails driven into the rafters close together and at a shallow depth---for the purpose of impaling the healthy corncobs onto them. This for next year's planting.
 
One of those things I had never really thought about. I know Dad used to save seeds from various vegetables, etc. and he would put them behind the wood fired cook stove to dry and then keep them in a paper sack in a closet where it was dry. As far as the photo, I guess you did the best you could with what you had. Seemed to work.
 
They only saved the big ears for planting. Left the husks on and hung them up to dry using the husks for a "handle" to hang them on a nail. I can remember first yr Dad planted the new stuff said it probably made the farmer more money than a tractor as at least you got a good crop.
 
That one assumes is open pollinated corn. I wonder when the first hybrid seed corn was planted on the average Midwest farm.
 
It started in the 20's I think it was kind of hard to sell in the 30's. Or in the western corn belt anyways.
 
Henry Wallace, you know Wallaces Farmer magazine and Secretary of Agriculture, got a big fancy building named for him in Des Moines

In 1923, Wallace developed the first commercial hybrid corn. Then in 1926, he founded the world's first-and once largest and successful-hybrid seed corn company Hi-Bred Corn Co. (now Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.) to support commercialization. With hybrids, yields have grown from 25 bushels an acre in 1931 to 110 or more bushels today.

Could very well be a pic from Hi-bred Corn Co.
 
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