Will's Gehu Yellow Flint Corn
The best known of our native early flints; might well be called the universal Corn. We have shipped it to every continent and have had fine reports from it in Scandinavia, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa and South America. It has been carefully bred by us for nearly fifty years and shows the effect of this breeding. Its feeding qualities are the highest of any variety of Corn, it is leafy and produces a tremendous amount of excellent fodder, since there is not heavy stalk, and every part of the plant is utilized. It is drought, frost and hail resistant to a wonderful extent in addition to its great earliness. In good soil and under favorable conditions it may be cut with a Corn binder. Gehu is of a lemon-yellow color, ears mostly twelve-rowed, 7 to 10 inches in length. Stalks 4 to 6 feet. Ears 10 to 15 inches from the ground. Hog raisers declare that hogs will fatten on Gehu at least a third faster than on any other Corn variety. This is said to be especially notable in hogging off when the hogs do not have access to alfalfa or sweet clover. Lb., 30c, postpaid. F. O. B. here, 10 lbs., 50c; ½ bu., $1.20; bu., $2.00.
Originally listed in: 1940 Oscar H. Will Pure Seed Book
The best known of our native early flints; might well be called the universal Corn. We have shipped it to every continent and have had fine reports from it in Scandinavia, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa and South America. It has been carefully bred by us for nearly fifty years and shows the effect of this breeding. Its feeding qualities are the highest of any variety of Corn, it is leafy and produces a tremendous amount of excellent fodder, since there is not heavy stalk, and every part of the plant is utilized. It is drought, frost and hail resistant to a wonderful extent in addition to its great earliness. In good soil and under favorable conditions it may be cut with a Corn binder. Gehu is of a lemon-yellow color, ears mostly twelve-rowed, 7 to 10 inches in length. Stalks 4 to 6 feet. Ears 10 to 15 inches from the ground. Hog raisers declare that hogs will fatten on Gehu at least a third faster than on any other Corn variety. This is said to be especially notable in hogging off when the hogs do not have access to alfalfa or sweet clover. Lb., 30c, postpaid. F. O. B. here, 10 lbs., 50c; ½ bu., $1.20; bu., $2.00.
Originally listed in: 1940 Oscar H. Will Pure Seed Book