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Contraption built on farm to carry youngsters down rows of corn so they can pull off corn tassels, so tassels are left on rows of one variety. Their pollen, spread by wind, fertilizes ears of detasseled variety. Object is to cross two varieties of corn . Result is hybrid seed corn.
Location:Waterloo, NE, US
Date taken:1948
Photographer:Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size:1280 x 965 pixels (17.8 x 13.4 inches)

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