Elizabeth Garst

the first time highest ever heard of or saw Coon Rapids was when I came here to visit the place with Roswell when I was at a teachers convention I skipped it to come up and look over Coon Rapids and that was him about 1920 and we came in the Coon Rapids in the back road that was covered with dust and there was no curb and gutter the the it looked pretty unkempt I was used to seeing a pretty town like Cedar Falls or something and I thought it was awful and I knew that I was never gonna live here and this was before I'm definitely said yes there was a kitchen and a living room and a stairway that had stairs about six inches apart and walls that slanted to the ground it was a kind of old house that was there were no Gables in it and that you couldn't sleep in so it had a sleeping porch fell down to it and a big great big front porch and it was a a kind of a house that a couple of bachelor friends would be living in we lived on this place for four years and decided we'd go to two mine in the real estate business and see if we'd rather be silly people and country people and we lived there for years very nicely first year we lived on High Street and then we bought a very nice home on 44th Street and I thought my life was quite permanent down there and I loved the environment and the social life of Des Moines and we established ourselves there with many good friends among them was Henry it was we were entertained at a party - with Henry Wallace to beat him and Louise and Micky McBroom architects and cousins invited the Wallace awesome Bob and me at their home for dinner so we'd get acquainted because they knew we were very interested in the detail they was doing I knew you were here to find out the how and why of hybrid car and how and why shoes will put more money in your pockets but before we see what has been done with hybrid corn let's take a look at a field of open pollinated corn I think you'll recognize the job of picking up fallen ears yet remains 10% of the corn was left on the ground too much to leave but a lot of work to get and here's what you finally do get on uniform size shape and quality the reason for the lack of uniformity and bigger in the field that we've just looked at is that you don't know which palm rain pollinated each separate count in other words you don't know who the daddy was no one would be so foolish as to try to improve livestock without selecting the finest sire the reason you get a prize-winning vote or good bore is because some breeder has selected his grandparents with the greatest of care now let's take a look at a field of hybrid corn where we do know the father and the grandfather in fact we know all of the ancestry for ten generations back 110 bushels to the acre means eighty eight hundred pounds of ear corn it takes sturdy stops to hold up this kind of a crop how beautifully they stand we can even see angle wise or crosswise through the corn field take a look down that aisle a pathway to prosperity and what fun to pick these golden ears and man what up profit Khrushchev was having a great long speech in the pallet barrel and he said before and he was interested in the agriculture the Russia people was very backward and he says what we need is an Iowa Corn Belt and Loren soul who was a editorial writer for register and riveted picked it up in the news and he said if Khrushchev wants an Iowa Corn Belt he should send a delegation over and see how we do it premier khrushchev drived after the rust olga tom on the morning of September the 23rd the first stop is to see an experimental field of red and silver sorghum this is a good crop for arid land here's what happens when the body inspects the stock farm every vantage point is occupied by the newspaper photographers and film cameras we even use every crack in the fence the maze is tall and thick on the gas bomb but premier khrushchev is unfamiliar ground here in the nation he remarks even a good farmer sometimes miscalculate when you plant this way you don't get enough years and is not spotted you you ought to plant two seeds together instead of thoth the correspondent to Tom Avery means is fair in this sort of a thought Gau strife repulsed the attack with time but of course is unsuccessful before jumping to the old-fashioned shovel on the sector should be replaced by this the farmers family feels that Maeve is a dull topic of conversation there have been dreaming of a talk with a premier everybody's on hand young and old mr. Gus displays his maize stickers they are practical but not very diversified everyone wishes the premiere happiness good health and a safe Jack and mrs. Khrushchev was a very delightful observing brilliant woman who had learned about the hybridization of corn and how to plan does and how it should be done and when we made art when they we they planned on hours they had tests of it and we went over in 56 many of you have seen our processing plant and visited our seed fields and can vouch for everything you've seen here today and more - for the rest we've tried to bring the mountain to Mohammed to show you how hybrid corn is produced and what it will do for you next year we trust you to join those thousands who know that the quality hybrid is the surest way to happy harvest