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Show State Agronomists Survey Utah Corn Prospects Results of a hybrid corn survey sur-vey conducted in four counties in Utah show that cross-pollinated varieties are proving their value val-ue as feed producers, D. C. Tingey, of the Ueth State Agricultural college Agronomy department, in charge of the survey, reports. He lists three factors that are outstanding about hybrid corn in this state, first of which is the increased acreage. In Millard, Duchesne, Du-chesne, Uintah, and Utah counties, where the survey was conducted, I many farmers are planting corn for the first time, while others are "doubling and trending" their corn areas. Rollo Woodward of the USDA division of cereal crops and disease, who accompanied Mr. Tingey on the survey, says that another : factor in the development of Utah corn is the large yields obtained on mediocre soil and with a limited lim-ited water supply. Under these conditions farmers harvested from 10 to 20 tons of green silage per acre. Another point about yields was the noticeable superiority of hylwids over open-pollinated corn. Uniformity of stands, height, size of ears, and stiffness of stalks was particularly marked among the hybrids. Some farmers said that they felt this increased corn production produc-tion per acre, and the greater acreage, ac-reage, may be an answer to their feed problem. Mr. Tingey says that many of the areas visited are "problem areas" and the people peo-ple living there must make their living off livestock rather than straight crop farming. Feed has been scarce, but this year com crops produced more feed per acre with less water than most other crops. Corn requires only one or two irrigations normally, whereas alfalfa must have five or six. He says that this may be an unusually good year though and such high production may not be repeated year after year. Consequently, Conse-quently, farmers are urged to not become too enthusiastic untU the corn varieties have been tested further. Experimenters are not pos-. pos-. itive thse same varieites wiU do so well in the future, but prospects pros-pects are very favorable. |