Caption: Booklet - One Hundred Million (Impact of UI) (1931)
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\vi e | llv In yield 2 I ml hcl m *l ii e In dest: nation whereby half of th nnualh in Illinois 1 many millions h; been i 7\ million bushels of corn *w ibl be r i I in rn itudi IMPROVED SEED T H A T H A S MEANT MILLIONS TO ILLINOIS CORN ( A section of the Annual Illinois Seed Grain and Utility University. The type of seed now used on full '0 ] of Illinois is distinctly different from that us th til of the score card for Utility corn which was ba uj n r University and the U. S. Department oi" Agriculture. It has that the efficiency of yields is improved two and a 1 the use of Utility type seed. n >:. • at th the con ge thmulg n h work :i h On the basis of these studies made during the i t n yt estimated that losses in dent corn from the rava of s < been more than 20 per cent. Anticipating the eventual need for information on Eur in borer control, the College lias gone to the pest instead wail it comes to Illinois, thereby saving what undoubtedly w uld ha\ a h y lo in time and money to the agriculture o\ the S » t ive 1 Y\ i n s t i t u t i o n is c o o p e r a t i n g w i t h t h e Illinois N a t u r a l H i s t o r j Si t h e U n i t e d Stat I D e p a r t m e n t of A g r i c u l t u r e in e x p e r i m e n t a l v k |, the [h infested a r e a s n e a r T o l e d o , O . . as well as in Ulith vvl i till uninfested. Ih i, an improved and highei yielding strain of wh< .; , by plant bi lers of the College in 1910, now makes u p , 0 f u , bard red wintet wh< i grown in the State, with in< t -fjts comh rmers a n \\x\t [n the plant brooding plot I > ,
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