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Show i Bird-Resisting Corn Husks Being Developed Birds get a big surprise when they try to feed on new varieties of hybrid corn developed by the Ohio Experiment Station. The tips of the ears arc covered with lon, thick busies so tough that the birds can't peel them back and eat the corn when it's in the roasting-ear stage. That's the time when birds ordinarily get in their most damaging licks. Seeds of these new hybrids isn't available yet probably won't be fc-r another three or four years. But we thought you'd like to know that they're on the way. Agronomist G. H. Stringfield doesn't claim that these new hybrids hy-brids are 100 percent resistant. Birds are hard workers, and they will still manage to peel back some of the tough husks. However, the new varieties will give considerable consider-able protection in areas where the birds often destroy a fourth of the crop. One disadvantage of these bird-resistant bird-resistant hybrids: the tough husks i i tend to slow down the corn picker. I However, the extra yields more than offset this delay. I More than 75 million Americai live in towns of less than io I population. |