
Coker'’s PEDIGREED 
VICTORGRAIN OATS 
In the short space of one year and in spite of 
drought conditions extending through the South- 
east, Coker’s Victorgrain oats have already estab- 
lished themselves as one of the South’s leading 
varieties. 
Reports and yield records from leading farmers 
and Experiment Stations have confirmed our own 
observations and experimental results which we 
have made during the eight-year period required 
to perfect this variety. 
LEADS EXPERIMENT STATION TEST 
In the 1940 Oat Variety Test conducted by the 
Pee Dee Experiment Station at Florence, S. C., 
Victorgrain oats showed an average yield of 100.2 
bushels per acre—almost 12 bushels per acre 
more than the next highest yielding variety. In 
this test, ten standard varieties and strains were 
included with six replications each. 
GROWERS WELL PLEASED 
Enthusiastic reports have come in from many 
sections of the Southern oat belt and we quote 
briefly from some of these. 
From the Whiteside Farms at Van Buren, 
Arkansas, comes the following ... “This 12 
bushels (of Victorgrain oats) made a yield of 995 
bushels on 8.8 acres, or an average of about 113 
bushels per acre...” 
And from Americus, Georgia, Mr. G. T. Cassell, 
writes ... “I am well pleased with the Victor- 
grain oats I bought from you last fall. They stood 
up well and cut well with combine. No evidence 
of smut or rust...” 
From the Piedmont Section, Mr. E. J. Poole 
of Enoree (Spartanburg County), S. C., reports 
... “The Victorgrain oat far out-yielded the 
Fulgrain and I am well pleased with them. My 
yield under the very unfavorable circumstances 
was about 50 bushels per acre. They were free 
of any smut, withstood the cold well and stood 
up well with rains at harvest time.. .” 
Victorgrain also showed up well in the Carolina 
Coastal Plains area as indicated by letter received 
from Epting Distributing Company, Leesville, S. 
C., who writes ... “Victorgrain gave superior 
yields to any other kind of oats... .” 
From Southeastern Alabama, where rust 
damage in oats is frequent, Spann Brothers of 
Dothan, who are planting several hundred acres 
of oats, give us the following results ... “We 
used the ten bushels (of Victorgrain oats) to 
plant a patch covering 6 acres. When we finally 
got to the Victorgrain, they were still standing 
straight up and presented a very nice job in 
Left: Planted in rows using one-half bushel seed per acre, 
this 17-acre field of Victorgrain yielded 74.3 bushels per 
acre in 1940. 
