The 1951 Iowa Corn Yield Test

Résumé du livre

This bulletin reports the results of the 1951 Iowa Corn Yield Test in which the performance of 261 different corn hybrids was compared. The state was divided into four sections, each of which was subdivided into three districts. A test field was planted in each district except district 10, where the prolonged wet spring forced us to abandon our planting plans. With the exception of district 10 in the southern section, each hybrid entry was tested in all three districts of a section. The map shows how we divided the state into sections and districts and the approximate location of the farms where the hybrids were compared. Any producer of hybrid corn seed was eligible to enter his corn in the test. Ten widely grown hybrids in each section also were entered by the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association. In the back of the bulletin you will find an index listing the hybrids tested in 1951. The index also lists the table numbers where the performance record of each entry is shown and indicates whether the hybrid is a single, three-way, double or multiple cross." -- foreword, p. [758]