Why Farmers Were So Pleased With Hybrid Seed, 1945

Wilmington Morning Star, November 12, 1945

TARBORO, Nov. 11—“Old time yields of 20 to 22 bushels of corn per acre are just chicken feed,” say Edgecombe County farmers.

Hybrid seed and extra fertilization have shown that average yields can easily be doubled. County Agent J.C. Powell of the State College Extension Service says that Fred Savage, Berry Anderson, J.R. Pitt, and C.J. Weeks grew an extra 28.4 bushels per acre at an average cost of only 33 cents a bushel. With hybrid seed and good fertilization, their average yield was 65.1 bushels per acre.