COLUMBIA OATS & JS£ 
general appearance as Fulghum or Franklin how¬ 
ever matures about a week earlier than Fulghum 
which is practically same time as wheat is har¬ 
vested. A wonderful Oats for starting grasses of 
all kinds. It has been a heavy yielder and we 
recommend it to you for a trial at least. Price per 
bu. 70c; 10 bu. lots 65c bu.; 25 bu. lots or over 
60c bu. 
OATQ Early — Heavy 
^ Yielder — Stiff 
Straw—Fulghum is a strain of awnless red Oats; 
iiia,lures very early, fhe straw is stiff, taller than 
the average oats and produces good yields in dry 
and average seasons when other varieties are prac¬ 
tically failures. Sow as early as it is possible to 
put oats in the ground. Always the best yields are 
from the early drilled fields. Productiveness, prob¬ 
ably more than any of its other good qualities, 
has contributed greatly to the wide popularity it 
has attained. We have reports of exceedingly 
heavy yields that other and later varieties will 
find hard to beat in seasons favorable for them. 
Fulghum stools out splendidly and has large heads 
of fine plump grains. Price, per bu., 70c; 10 
bu. lots, C5c per bu.; 25 bu. lots or over, 60c bu. 
GOPHER OATS White-Early as Ful- 
uurnc.f\ Urtia ghum—Stiff Straw — 
Gopher Oats Is an early white open head variety, 
producing heavy good quality grain with remark¬ 
ably stiff and erect straw. The white plump kernel 
gives it a fine appearance and as it contains little 
hull it Is an excellent oat for grinding. 
Columbia or Fulghum are Ideal Nurse Crops for Clovers FILLS NEED FOR AN EARLY, HEAVY 
YIELDING WHITE OATS 
The demand for this new heavy producing va¬ 
riety was very heavy last season and we now have quite a few orders already for 1939. If you have not 
given Gopher Oats a fair trial we urge you to sow a small field and compare with the kind you have been 
growing. Price per bu., 70c; 10 bu. lots, 65c per bu.; 25 bu. lots or over, 60c bu. 
C WAYNE AftTC New White Variety—Introduced by Ohio Experiment Station 
^ * Iwt ^ Where it Has Made Remarkable Yields. One of the Best of 
All Mid-Season Kinds for Ohio—We have grown Wayne Oats on our farms for 4 years and each season the 
quality has been extra fine. It has a, good stiff straw which prevents lodging except in extreme cases. The 
grain is large and plump. Hull is thin and grinds easily. This is a year when every effort should be made to 
insure a heavy crop. We have priced our oats low to give you every advantage possible. Your increased yield 
will pay you many times for having used Wayne seed. Order as soon as you know your requirements as our 
stock of good seed is not large. Price, per bu., 70c, 10 bu. lots, 65c per bu.; 25 bu. lots or over, 60c bu. 
FRANKLIN OATS Var ' et V tests running three to five years and with no less than four kinds and 
" Iw Wrl I ^ as many as ten varieties in the counties of the state have demonstrated very 
conclusively the yielding ability of Franklin Oats. IN THESE TRIALS IT HAS YIELDED HEAVIEST OVER 
ALL KINDS TESTED IN MIAMI, MADISON, HAMILTON, CLERMONT AND MAHONING COUNTIES. 
Franklin Oats originated as a plant 
selection made in 1922 from the Fulg¬ 
hum variety. Its characteristics as 
compared with Fulghum are as fol¬ 
lows : The straw is longer and decided¬ 
ly stiffer, it matures slightly later than 
Fulghum, has an open panicle type of 
head, while the heads of typical Fulg¬ 
hum tend toward the side-head type. 
The color of chaff of Franklin oats is 
white while the chaff of Fulghum Is 
yellow. The kernel color is like that of 
Fulghum, (red). The head type and 
chaff color should make it rather easy 
to identify this variety and to maintain 
pure seed stocks. Franklin oats is near¬ 
ly free of abnormal types that occur so 
frequently in Fulghum. Price per bu., 
70c; 10 bu. lots, 65c per bu.; 25 bu. 
lots or over, 60c bu. 
COLUMBIA, FULGHUM and FRANKLIN 
make ideal nurse crops for Alfalfa. 
They have very few leaves, mature early 
and produce a good crop, too. One 
bushel seed Oats per acre with 12 
pounds Alfalfa has always given us 
a good stand. Fight Canadian Thistles 
with Alfalfa. 
In the above plots Franklin was compared to two other early 
strains of Oats. Note how well the Franklin stands and others 
have completely lodged. 
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