Coker’s VICTORGRAIN OATS 
The Best We Have Ever Bred in Our 
32 Years of Small Grain Breeding 
HISTORY OF BREEDING 
In 1933, Victoria, a highly smut and rust 
resistant oat, but having no cold resistance and a 
heavy awn on first grain, was crossed on our cold 
resistant, early, highly productive Fulgrain, the 
object being to breed an oat that combined the 
rust resistance and extreme smut resistance of 
Victoria with the cold resistance, earliness, pro¬ 
duction and desirable grain characters of Fulgrain. 
In the season of 1936 and 1937, over 11,000 head 
selections were in head-to-rows from such crosses. 
600 of the most striking of these were saved and 
planted in cold, smut and yield tests in 1937 
and 1938. 
OUTSTANDING RECORD 
Our breeders were particularly struck with the 
appearance of one of these selections. It was 
markedly superior to our Fulgrain Strain 2 check 
in cold resistance, tillering, apparent production, 
and storm resistance. When the test was threshed 
this strain showed a yield of 82.6 bushels whereas 
the adjacent check produced 72.5 bushels per acre. 
We were so struck with the promise of this strain 
that the seed were carefully stored in the vault 
of the Bank of Hartsville. 
17'/2 LBS. SEED YIELDED 152 BUSHELS 
In the fall of 1938, four acres were planted with 
11V 2 pounds of seed which produced 152 bushels. 
A sample was sent to Dr. H. C. Murphy, Path¬ 
ologist, U. S. D. A., Oat Investigations, at Ames, 
Iowa, for a determination of its rust resistance. 
He reported a 1 plus rating on all plants grown. 
The parent Victoria had a rating of 1. That year 
some seed were again planted in cold tests, and 
in Fulghum, Red Rust Proof and Fulgrain smut 
tests, also in yield tests. It again showed a remark¬ 
able yield record and to our delight proved to be 
resistant to all smuts. 
Above: Victorgrain was most outstanding in our first year 
test. Note excellent stooling and storm resistance as compared to „ , oi • -i, • 
check plot of other oat variety on right. Below: Showing excellent tillering and stiff straw of 
Victorgrain as compared with check variety on left. 
