Show frostproof FROST PROOF CORN GROWN IN ILLINOIS IN RECENT experiment tests indicate new variety will yield largely frostproof frost proof corn which will withstand a temperature of 27 degrees has been successfully produced in mclean county illinois by dr james it hot bert expert in charge of the funk ex perliner tal farms in addition to being highly resistant to cold weather the new strain hns has shown itself to be less susceptible to the corn borer and flourishes during drought when other strains dle die preliminary tests testa ind indicate leite that the new kind of corn will yield an average of t 18 bus bushels liels to the acre more etian than ordinarily dina rily goof good corn while the new seed has not yet been produced in quan quantities titles to be marketable doctor holbert told an interviewer from the form farm and fireside that he Is making every effort to perfect it lie ile recommends that when sufficient seed Is available that hat ii a whole township be planted so eo that there can be no cross fr from P m inferior fields the cold resisting corn wah was grown only after years of experiments in which velch more than was spent to hasten the experiments holbert invented a refrigeration machine which can be lowered over four hills of corn at one time and the desired temperature secured cold tests are made both at the beginning of the seeds growth and fit at ripening time doctor holbert ETo Ibert declared that corn does not necessarily have to be frosted to be stopped from ripening or killed some corn crops lie he added were found to be unable to resist a temperature pera ture of 42 degrees |