combining ... on these six acres, we harvested 
550 bushels giving a little better than 90 bushels 
per acre. We hope to plant the majority of our 
crop with the 550 bushels we harvested this 
NAEP eG 5 
BREEDING HISTORY 
In 19338, Victoria, a South American variety, 
which is a highly smut and rust-resistant oat 
but having no cold resistance and a heavy awn 
on the first grain, was crossed on our early, 
highly productive Fulgrain oat. The object was 
to breed an oat that combined the rust resistance 
and extreme smut resistance of Victoria with 
the cold resistance, earliness, production and 
desirable grain characters of Fulgrain. After 
eight years of breeding, selecting and testing and 
the handling of thousands of head selections and 
head-to-rows, a striking new oat was evolved 
combining the best features of each parent with- 
out their undesirable characters. This oat we 
named Victorgrain. 
WIDE ADAPTABILITY 
In our opinion, the Victorgrain, because of its 
high degree of resistance to leaf rust, to smut 
and to cold, as well as its excellent stiff straw, 
is well suited for planting throughout the South- 
eastern portion of this country from middle 
Virginia to Florida and from Eastern Carolinas 
through Middle Tennessee, Southern Missouri, on 
over into Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. 
We offer this oat to Southern farmers in the 
belief that it will add to the yields and profits of 
their oat-growing operations, backed by nine 
years of breeding and testing and satisfactory 
performance on hundreds of Southern farms. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant: Semi-procumbent (winter type) profuse 
tillering. Cold resistant—90% as tall as 
Fulgrain. 
Smut Resistance: Resistant to all types of smut 
with which we are familiar, namely, Fulghum, 
Fulgrain and Appler. 
Rust Resistance: Highly resistant to leaf rust. 
Rated 1 plus in U. 8S. D. A. Greenhouse Test 
at Ames, Iowa, where rust conditions were 
artificially induced. 
Season: Week earlier than Appler or Red Rust 
Proof. 
Heads: Long, well balanced, heavily fruited with 
bright yellow glumes. 
Straw: Very stiff, very storm resistant. Ideal for 
combining. 
Grains: Attractive, bright, resisting weather stain, 
plump, well-filled berry, low per cent hull, 
high feeding value. 
Production: Excellent. 
PRICES: $3.00 per bushel, 1 to 12 bushel lots; 
$2.75 per bushel, 12 to 48 bushel lots; $2.50 
per bushel, 48 bushels and up. (Sacked 4 
bushels per bag). 
Top: Our Mr. R. S. Entzminger (right) explains to 
‘Delta’’ visitors some features about Victorgrain which 
make it a most desirable oat for their section. 
Bottom: Victorgrain is an ideal oat for combining. 

