
“VICTORY” OATS 
(Certified) 
MORE FRIENDS EVERY YEAR 
If we can judge by the way our friends have gone after 
“Victory” Oats in past years, we say—''Order your ‘Victory’ 
seed now—before we are short.’’ There’s no keeping down 
a heavy yielder like this. Once it starts to make friends, it 
holds fast to them and acquires new ones at the same time. 
No need to wonder why, if you’ve seen Hoffman’s ‘‘Victory”’ 
produce on your own land. You can depend on it even when 
the weather is bad. It comes through with big, full crops 
even when your neighbors hardly get enough to pay for 
threshing. 
STANDS UP ... MAKES MORE BUSHELS 
Take a look at a field of this oats, and you'll see how stiff and 
heavy the straw is. That’s why it pulls through wind and rain 
with so little damage. And that’s not all, by a long shot. Not 
only is the straw long and stiff, but it heads out well, with 
large, heavy kernels, thin hulled and high in feeding value. 
That tells its story in yield gains when you measure the crop 
coming out of the thresher. Reports of 90 bushels per acre 
aren’t at all unusual, while plenty of letters tell us of 80 to 90- 
bushel yields per acre—and of GAINS of 20 bushels or more 
where Hoffman’s ‘‘Victory’’ seed was sown. 
But nothing speaks like results. Listen to what some cus- 
tomers say about ‘‘Victory.”” From Amos E. Pflugh, Beaver 
Falls, Pa.—'‘Produced 93 bushels per acre. A very unusual 
yield for this locality.” From J. B. McClelland, Canonsburg, 
Pa.—‘‘831/, bushels an acre . . . rather unusual when one con- 
siders the very dry weather prevalent in the midst of the grow- 
ing season.” J. W. Cannon, Milford, Del., exclaims, ‘“The 
yield, and their ability to take a licking under abnormal weather 
conditions, is an outstanding feature.” 
And records like these are not a fortunate yield from one- 
year good seed. Five years ago A. R. Shaffer, Brookville, Pa., 
was getting 101 bushels per acre, and Mrs. Dorothy Allison, 
Tall straw . . . standing up 
straight ... carrying a heavy 
load of grain .. . certainly a 
paying crop for owner Jost- 
meier, of Monroe County, 
New York. 
“TI got your Shadeland Vic- 
tory oats and it yielded 85 
bushels per acre this year.”— 
Harry D. Woods, Cassadaga, 
NY? 
“Your ‘G 100’ corn is the 
right kind to plant. Never 
before such a good crop for 
the kind of weather we had.” 
— John Doutcher, Bucks 
County, Pa. 
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