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Martinsville, Ohio | Thanks Joel. That was about all I was able to find, also. I did read a book 20 years ago or so and I think it was red. Leon Bird loaned it to me and it had a lot more time and place happenings in it.
I wish I had a better record of Robert Winkle and other Ohio seedsmen who brought hybrid corn to Ohio in the 30's. Dad and grandpa made their own F1 by crossing Bloody Butcher with Reid's Yellow Dent. That more than doubled their yield of either inbred.
US 36 C-38 and Ohio 76 were some of the numbers I remember hearing about. I would love to go over old pictures and crosses but the stories of farms changed by breeding, raising, selling and producing hybrid corn are fascinating to me.
Thanks,
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Presentation on the history of hybrid corn
