03/05/12, 05:50 PM
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FarmBoyBill,
Yes there are some old books that describe some of those old OP varieties. I think Kansas Sunflower had good drought resistance and might have been grown in your area, also Hogue's Yellow Dent, Reid's Yellow Dent and maybe Krug. Leaming was planted in just about all the corn belt. I've grown Hickory King in a drought year and it did very well but you would need 120 days for it.
Here is a list of some books. I bought them on line from used book dealers. They tell of the different old OP varieties. The first one has been updated many times and so you would want an older copyright. Mine is 1937 and it does list the traits of many varieties.
Corn and Corn Growing, Henry A. Wallace and Earl N. Bressman, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1937...
The Study of Corn, Vernon M. Shoesmith, Orange Judd Company, 1910.
Corn Growing, Judging, Breeding, Feeding, Marketing, M.L. Bowman, B.W. Crossley, Published by the Authors, sold by Waterloo Publishing Co., Waterloo, Iowa, 1908, revised 1911.
There are some others but these are the best I've found for listing the traits.
Last edited by fatrat; 03/05/12 at 05:58 PM.
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