SCARFF'S SEED OATS 
Columbia is an outstanding early variety 
COLUMBIA 
An early Red Oat with same gen¬ 
eral appearance as Fulghum or 
Franklin however matures about a week earlier than Ful- 
ghuin which is practically same time as wheat is harvested. 
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 on enciosed leafiet. 
pill |^|J|J|\/| Early—Heavy Yielder—Stiff Straw— 
■ Fulghum is a strain of awnless red 
Oats; matures very early. The straw is stiff, taller than 
the average oats and produces good yields in dry and av¬ 
erage seasons when other varieties are practically 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, probably 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 sea¬ 
sons favorable for them. Fulghum stools out splendidly and 
has large heads of fine plump grains. Price on enciosed 
leaflet. 
^ApupD White—Early as Fulghum—Stiff Straw 
—Gopher Oats is an early white open 
head variety, producing heavy good quality grain with re¬ 
markably 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. 
FILLS NEED FOR AN EARLY, HEAVY 
YIELDING WHITE OATS 
The demand for this new heavy producing variety was 
very heavy last season and we now have quite a few 
orders already for 1940. 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 on 
enclosed leaflet. 
SCARFF’S WAYNE 
New White Variety— 
Introduced by Ohio 
Experiment Station 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 in¬ 
creased yield will pay you many times foj having used Wayne seed. Order as soon as you know your require¬ 
ments as our stock of good seed is not largo. Price on enciosed leafiet. 
pn lay Variety tests running three to five years and with no less than four kin(}s and as 
■ as ten varieties in the counties of the state have demonstrated very conclusive! 
many 
iclusively 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- 
bnm variety. Its characteristics as 
compareu with Fulghum are as fol¬ 
lows : The straw is longer and decided¬ 
ly suffer, 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 on enclosed 
leaflet. 
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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