The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-11-17
HANEY TELLS METHODS USED
in DEVELOPING new VARIETY
OF CORN-MlNNES0TA NO. l3
Advises Farmers How to Prepare Ground for COrn-Ear
Planting and Frequent Cultivation Are Urged
Every Farmer Should Grow Some Corn

earlier and show better quality
than the same strain of corn that had
been grown on the Aberdeen Farm
for three or four years. From the
Grand Forks seed sent to Aberdeen,
we selected Il sample of corn and
took first at the Aberdeen Show and
also took first at the Huron or State
Corn Show Of South Dakota.
As stated previously. this corn is
somewhat smaller than the Minnesota
Il grown farther South. but it is
large enough to compete favorably
with other varieties when maturity
and other factors are taken into con-
sideratiOn.
Selection Most PrOmis sing of Results
| might state further that ! have
been connected with the Experiment
Station and watched results Of cross
breeding and importation Of varic-
ties Of different crops, and | have
personally come to the conclusion
that there is more to be gained by
careful selection from standard var
icties which are already acclimated
to certain extent, than there is in
any other way. The trouble we found
with Northwestern Dent and such
cross-brcd varieties, was that we
could not establish a permanent type
of this corn, it was continually break
ing up and reverting to one or the
other of the parents.
We might state that our selection
o: this corn during the past Few
years has been a little more carefully
done than previously, owing to the
fact that we find the depth of grain
decreasing to some extent. This, we
believe, will be true of all varities OF
corn grown in this North country and
will require careful selection in ord
CIR to maintain the depth of grain.
Our first intimation that this var
iety of corn was attracting attention
came about seven years ago, when we
were taken to task by a member of
the staff of one of the large seed
companies, for our stating in our
corn books and articles, that the best
seed corn for any region is the seed
that has been grown there and care
fully selected until it has become
acclimated They asked us for our
authority for this statement. Among
other things, we told them we would
be glad to send them a sample of our
Minnesota l3 corn which had at that
time been grown in North Dakota
some eight or ten years, and we
would be glad to have them compare
it with their seed which is usually
grown in central Minnesota. They
also sent us Il sample of their rcgu-
lar Minnesota Is seed corn which we
planted at Grand Forks. About the
10th Of September, we wrote this
seed company that we would be glad
to have them come to North Dakota
and see the difference between their
corn and ours-Ours matured week
or ten days earlier than their strain
Of the same variety. They replied
that it was not necessary to come to
Grand Forks to see the difference as
it was very obvious in their cxper-
mental plot. Since then we nave
been furnishing them seed each year
Of our early strain of Minnesota l3,
which they have taken into little
better corn region than we have at
Grand Forks, SO as to be sure to ma
ture it, and they have distributed
this as Northern Grown or Extra
Early Minnesola IL. In their seed
bulletin Of 1924, on page rs. they
give the following information re-
garding this strain of corn.
Extra Early Minnesota IL or Mecca
sin Dent"
(Haney Strain)
Introduced by Northrup, King &
Co. in 1921.
"This is one of the early strains
Of Minnesota l3, and was developed
by the international Harverter Com
pany on their Demonstration Farm
at Grand Forks, North Dakota.
1T meets the demar for a yellow
dent in sections farther North where
the standard Minnesota 13 is too late
in maturity. and where Northwestern
Dent and Minnesota % only were
available before.
1T natures in IS to 95 days and
grows to feet high. Ears are
5 to Z inches long, and to inches
in circumference. Kernels are yell
low and cob red, with IL to 16 rows.
Our stocks of Extra Early Minnesota
Is are produced so as to retain the
early maturing quality of the ori-
ginal strain.
Extra Early Minnesota No. l3 is
adapted for husking north Of the
9O-day line in Minnesota, Worth Da-
kota and Montana. 1t is quite SINH
lar to Wisconsin No. Is.
Extra Early Minnesota No. Is has
given best yields of any of the yell
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