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Rival Yellow Dent corn may challenge Silver King in Iowa
The 1928 northern Iowa corn yield contest showed six of the seven top samples from the region were yellow varieties, led by Smith's Yellow Dent at 61.5 bushels per acre near Nashua. Reid's Yellow Dent tops in the south with 63.8. George Steen of West Liberty earned the state's best overall yield on Reid's Yellow Dent, while the contest highlighted potential for a yellow variety to compete with Silver King.
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Iowa
Towa
Joe L. Robinson
Town Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa Experiment Station
Orange City
Algona
New Hampton
Willian B. Smith
Nashua
Smith
Jesse Bige
Cedar Falls
North
Black Hawk Reid
Storm Lake
Ackley
Manchester
George Steen
West Liberty
Reid
Raymond A. Pearson
Logan
Hartwick
John Farquhar