EXPERIMENT STATION 
INTRODUCTIONS 
The Finest Seed Oats 
RECOMMENDED 
FOR YOUR LOCALITY 

Best Early Oats for the North <a 

GOPHER OATS 
Gopher is a white, early maturing variety 
with straw so stiff and strong that it does not 
lodge even on well-manured farm land. It is 
also adapted for growing on peat land. It is 
without any question the best oats for the rich 
dairy farms of southern Minnesota, Iowa and 
Wisconsin and unequalled for sowing with clover 
and alfalfa as a nurse crop. 
This variety was developed by the Minnesota 
Experiment Station and has become widespread 
throughout the Northwest. Excellent reports, 
not only from Minnesota but from North and 
South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, show that 
Gopher is still leading in yield, earliness and 
stiffness of straw. 
The oat crop in many sections was very 
light, having been damaged by adverse weather 
conditions and the demand for seed will be 
quite great. Our stocks of high quality certified 
seed oats are reasonably large, especially the 
Gopher variety but_ with the strong demand 
may not last long. For Prices: See Blue Figure 
Price List. 
NEW BOONE OATS 
Boone originated from a cross of Victoria and 
Richland and was developed co-operatively by 
the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and 
the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. An early yellow 
common oat with short stiff straw like that of 
the Richland parent. Outstanding characters 
are: early maturity, high yield, and quality, and 
high resistance to nearly all races of stem rust, 
crown rust, and the smuts of oats. Approved 
for Registration by the American Society of 
Agronomy in 1939, 
NEW MARION OATS 
A selection from a cross of Markton and 
Rainbow. Developed by the Iowa Agricultural 
Experiment Station and the U. S. Dept. of 
Agriculture. Marion is an early white com- 
mon oat with midtall to tall plants, and stiff 
straw, and plump kernels. Outstanding charac- 
ters are: early maturity, high yield, and high 
test weight, with kernels of the best type for 
milling and for feed. It also has stiff straw, 
and splendid resistance to stem rust, smut, and 
certain races of crown rust. Approved by 
American Society of Agronomy. Commercial 
millers and cereal manufacturers pay a premi- 
um for this new variety because of its excel- 
lent kernel type. 
IOGOLD OATS 
The necessary requirements for any variety 
of grain are yield, stiffness of straw (resistance 
to lodging), rust resistance and early maturity. 
Togold Oats includes all of these which makes 
it such an outstanding variety. We have only 
a fair supply of high quality seed. 
Iogold Oats produces heads that are spread- 
ing, erect, cream colored and very uniform. The 
kernels are golden yellow and larger than Iowa 
No. 105. The straw is coarser than Kherson 
and is stiffer than any other variety produced 
by the Iowa Experiment Station. The plants 
grow about three inches taller than Iowa No. 
105 and ripen about the same time. 
For Prices: See Blue Figure Price List. 
NEW IOWA SELECT NO. 52 
This new variety of oats was developed from 
a plant selection of Iowa 105, at the Iowa Ex- 
periment Station. It has the outstanding char- 
acteristics of a fine quality oat namely, lodging 
resistance through stiffness of straw, rust re- 
sistance, early maturity and high yields. An 
open-panicled oat with excellent quality yellow 
grain, fairly thin hull, and especially fine for 
feeding young pigs. It is recommended for sec- 
tions in southern Minnesota and Iowa where an 
early maturing variety is desired. See Blue 
Figure List. 


Treat Seed Oats—use Ceresan 
Controls 
S smut, improves your’ stand—pro- 
ducing bigger, cleaner yields, Highly recom- 
mended, Easy to apply—also used for wheat 

and barley. One pound treats 32 bushels. 
Pil aes 4 oz. 30c; 1 Ib. 85c, prepaid. See page 
a 
Up-to-Date Helps for the Modern Farmer—See Page 74. 
NEW HULLESS OATS 
“NAKOTA” 
Minnesota Accessory No. 741 
Nakota Hulless Oats 
the 
South Dakota Experiment Station from a double 
cross (Markton x Richland) x (Swedish Select 
x Kilby). It is early maturing, and just a day or 
was developed by 
two later than Gopher, and very resistant to 
stem rust, also immune to smut. The yield com- 
pares favorably with the standard hulled varie- 
ties when allowance of 30% is made for weight 
of hulls. After thorough testing it was placed on 
the recommended list of the Minnesota Experi- 
ment Station. 
Hulless Oats are very 
young pigs and poultry. 
In many seasons, due to adverse weather con- 
ditions, crops of oats have been very light in 
weight. Light oats have a high percentage of 
hulls and therefore lots of fibre which has little 
value for feeding pigs. Hulled oats make an 
excellent feed for little pigs and about 165 lbs. 
of fairly heavy whole oats will make 100 lbs. 
of hulled oats. 
The recommended rate of seeding is about 50 
Ibs. per acre, as this variety stools very heavily. 
Order early. Prices: Lb., 35c; 5 lbs. $1.00, ppd. 
See Blue Figure List, 
popular for feeding 
New Marion Oats brings a premium on the market. 




Midseason and Late Varieties 
MINRUS OATS 
Rust Resistant—Registered 
Minrus matures about half way between 
Gopher and Anthony; produces white glumes 
and has a spreading panicle. It is about equal 
in height and stiffness of straw to Anthony and 
is highly resistant to black stem rust. It was 
produced by the Minnesota Experiment Station 
from a cross of Minota and White Russian. 
Observations to date indicate that Muinrus 
will outyield Gopher Oats on any ground except 
the very richest. Gopher Oats should be used 
on the rich soils as it is more able to resist 
lodging under those conditions. Minrus should 
be very popular on lighter soils where Gopher 
Oats does not get tall enough to handle well. 

Minrus may be grown with varieties of spring 
wheat as succotash as it is a few days later 
than Gopher. Minrus has already met with great 
favor wherever tried. For prices, see Blues 
Figure List. 
NEW RUSOTA OATS 
Minnesota Accessory No. 708 
This outstanding rust resistant variety of oats 
was developed by the North Dakota Experiment 
Station as a plant selection from Green Russian. 
It was thoroughly tested and is on the recom- 
mended list of the Minnesota Experiment Sta- 
tion, Rusota has outyielded all other varieties in 
trials at the Northwest Station at Crookston, 
Minnesota. 
Rusota Oats is a midseason variety maturing 
about the same time as Anthony, is open pan- 
icled, and produces white kerneled grain, medium 
large in size. This variety compares favorably 
in plant height with Anthony Oats. 
We especially recommend this high yielding, 
stiff strawed, rust resistant variety for those 
sections where a medium maturing variety is 
desired and where the early varieties do not 
seem to give the best_results. Supply limited. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
VANGUARD OATS 
Now Recommended by 
Minn. Exp. Station for 
Northwestern Minn. 
Produced by the Dominion Rust 
Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, 
Manitoba, as a _ selection from the 
cross of Hajira and Banner. A mid- 
season, open-panicled, white grain 
variety. Outstanding characters are: 
high yield, stiff straw, and resistance 
to black stem rust. Placed on the 
recommended list in 1941 by the Min- 
nesota Experiment Station, and recom- 
mended for Northwestern Minnesota, 
and other similar territories. 
SEE BLUE FIGURE PRICE 
LIST in front of Catalog for 
prices on all farm seeds. 
Wheat and Oats 
Profitable Combination Crop 
A profitable practice is to grow 
oats and wheat in i 



combination, 
Yields of 50 to 60 bu. of oats and 
20 to 380 bu. of wheat per acre 
have been reported. A combina- 
tion crop returns more profit per 
acre than either wheat or oats sep- 







arately, Use 1% bu. of oats 
and % bu. of wheat per acre. 
Thatcher grown with Minrus or 


Anthony Oats gives the best results 
as they ripen about the same time. 
Other good combination crops are 
barley with early oats, wheat with 
flax. 





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