32 ASSOCIATED SEEDS, INC. 

SMALL GRAINS FOR GRAZING, HAY OR GRAIN 
OATS 
Avena spp. 
Of all the small grain crops used in our territory to furnish green grazing, adapted 
varieties of oats are most generally grown. Oats have a higher moisture require- 
ment than any other small grain crop and make their best growth on fertile, moist, 
well drained and well worked soils. There is much confusion in kinds and varieties 
sold on the market under very many trade names. Consequently only seed of known 
variety and origin should be accepted. 
FERGUSON 922 
Developed by A. M. Ferguson of Sherman, Texas. A red oat variety adapted to 
the heavy soils of the middle cotton belt of Texas; winter hardy and shatter 
proof. Furnishes abundant green grazing over a long period of time. The 
plants form heavy spreading turf; stems coarse, strong, erect, quite leafy. 
Seedheads large, compact to spreading. Seed large, plump, reddish, bearded. 
FULGRAIN 
A combine type of milling oat, developed and introduced by Coker Seed Co. Not 
sO winter hardy as Red oats but matures earlier and furnishes good grazing. 
Plants tiller freely, stand erect, are smut and crown rust resistant. Seedheads 
large; seed plump, thin-hulled, yellowish; beards few to none. 
FULTEX 
A cross between Fulghum and Victoria, developed by the Texas Agricultural 
Experiment Station. Highly resistant to crown rust and smut, and has a short, 
strong straw which makes it desirable for direct combining. - Recommended 
especially for grain production on rich blackland soils, where other varieties 
are subject to lodging. 

A seed crop of oats at harvest 
