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Coker’s Hardired wheat combines profuse tillering, rust tolerance and mildew resistance and has long, 
square, well filled heads. Its production record is excellent. 
Coker’s PEDIGREED HARDIRED WHEAT 
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A significant thing has happened—the deep 
South, those states extending around the Atlantic 
and the Gulf Coast from North Carolina to 
Louisiana, have this year, 1942, harvested about 
a million acres of wheat with a yield which will 
compare favorably with the national 10-year 
average of 13.3 bushels per acre. 
WHEAT’S GREATEST ENEMY 
Only recently has it been possible to produce 
profitable yields in much of this area, for, the 
warm moist spring days, characteristic of this 
region, causes leaf rust—wheat’s greatest enemy 
—to thrive, cutting off the food supply from the 
undeveloped wheat heads and reducing yields and 
quality. 
Our breeders first attacked this problem from 
the standpoint of breeding varieties early enough 
to enable them to produce reasonable crops before 
severest rust damage set in and our Redhart 
was one of the most satisfactory rust escaping 
varieties. However, in seasons of severe rust 
infection and when mildew is also present, this 
variety was affected. 
LEADS 1941 S. C. WHEAT CONTEST 
How well our breeders have succeeded in their 
efforts to produce a high yielding, rust and mildew 
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