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Coker’s PEDIGREED VICTORGRAIN OATS — STRAIN 2 
Coker’s Victorgrain Strain 2, a new and 
improved strain of our famous Victorgrain oat, 
is, in our opinion, the best oat that we have so 
far been able to breed. It has demonstrated this 
superiority both in variety tests and in general 
field performance. In Strain 2 we have been able 
to maintain all the good qualities of the parent, 
and in addition, have achieved a higher degree of 
uniformity and greater productivity. 
A thirty-seven acre field of Victorgrain Strain 
2, this year grown under the most adverse sea- 
sonal conditions that we have had in years, 
averaged over seventy-five bushels per acre. The 
oats stood up well in spite of a 4%4-inch rain that 
fell when they were practically ripe, and were 
easily combined with little or no loss. This demon- 
strated their excellent storm resistance, a most 
essential character today when combine harvest- 
ing is becoming such a general practice. 
PROMPT ACCEPTANCE BY SOUTHERN 
GROWERS 
Victorgrain is descended from the best single 
head selection of over 11,000 that were planted 
in our head-to-row tests in the Fall of 1936. 
Offered first in the Fall of 1940, it is now being 
grown in every oat-growing Southern state and 
several hundred thousand acres were harvested 
this year. This prompt and wide acceptance of 
Victorgrain is striking evidence of its true merit. 
COMBINATION OF SUPERIOR QUALITIES 
Victorgrain has proven its ability to withstand 
the normal winters of the Southern oat belt, the 
leaf rust of the humid Carolina and Georgia area, 
and has stood up and produced excellent yields 
for combine harvesting in the Mississippi Valley 
area. 
Resistant to smut, having a beautiful, well 
balanced head with bright yellow glumes, and 
with attractive, plump, high feeding value grain, 
this oat has fully justified the many thousands 
of dollars and the years of breeding and testing 
which went into its development. 
SHOWS UP WELL IN EXPERIMENT 
STATION TESTS 
In the 1940 Oat Variety Test conducted by the 
Pee Dee Experiment Station, Florence, S. C., 
Victorgrain led all varieties on test with a yield 
of 100.2 bushels per acre. 
Victorgrain produced an average yield of 76.5 
bushels per acre in the twelve tests conducted by 
the Alabama Experiment Station in 1941, stand- 
ing at the top in the following tests: Lafayette, 
with a yield of 100.9 bushels per acre; Prattville, 
96.4; Marion Junction, 65.0; Monroeville, 88.1. 
It also led the 1941 Delta Experiment Station 
test at Stoneville, Mississippi, with a yield of 89.8 
bushels per acre. 
Profuse tillering, length of head, uniformity and production is strikingly illustrated in this 
increase plot of Victorgrain oats. 


