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The Finest Seed Oats 
RECOMMENDED 
FOR YOUR LOCALITY 

Best Early Oats for the North 

TAMA OATS 
Tama Oats is a result of a Victoria-Richland 
eross by U. 8S. Dept. of Agriculture: Developed 
cooperatively by the Iowa Experiment. Station 
and the U. 8, Dept. of Agriculture, 
An early yellow grained oat with short stiff 
straw and high weight per bushel. 
Superior characters are early maturity, high 
yield, and satisfactory resistance to nearly all 
races of crown rust, stem rust, and the smuts of 
oats. Victoria parent provides resistance to 47 
of the 51 races of crown rust known to occur in 
North America. Approved for. registration by 
American Society of Agronomy. Recommended 
by Minnesota Experiment Station, and Minne- 
sota Crop Improvement -Association. See Blue 
Figure Price List, 
VICLAND OATS 
Originated from a cross between Victoria and 
Richland and one of 33 strains from the Vic- 
toria x Richland cross, sent to the Wisconsin 
Experiment Station in 1935, that had been se- 
lected at the Aberdeen Substation, Aberdeen, 
Idaho in 1934. Sélection No, 5545-16 was 
named Vicland in 1940 by the Wisconsin Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. 
Vicland is an early-maturing, open-panicled, 
yellow-grained oat with high weight per bushel. 
It has short. straw, and is as resistant to lodging, 
or more so than Gopher. 
It is resistant to the now prevalent races of 
stem and crown rusts and the smuts occurring in 
the North Central States. Vicland has out- 
yielded other varieties by approximately 20%, 
on the average, and appears to have wide adapta- 
tion, 
Registered by American Society of Agronomy 
and recommended by Minnesota Experiment Sta- 
tion. See Blue Figure Price List, 
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 earliness and 
stiffness of straw. ; 
The oat crop in many sections is often’ light, 
yield, 
due to damage by adverse weather conditions 
and the demand for seed will be quite great, 
Our stocks of high quality certified seed oats are 
reasonably large, but with the strong demand 
may not last long. For Prices: See Blue Figure 
Price List. 

Here’s Your Best 
CROP INSURANCE! 
Read about ‘‘The Battle 
Against Disease in Seed 
Grains’’ (at the right) and 
don’t fail to treat every bushel 
of seed oats you plant with Im- 
Wrear oenaanuy fo proved Ceresan. Only % oz. 
i a” fe of Ceresan treats a bushel of 
seed grain and gives your crop 
valuable protection. Ceresan 
Prices: 4 oz. (treats 8 bu. of 
seed) 30c, 1 lb. 85c, postpaid. 
Not prepaid: 4 lb. tin $2.70, 
8 lb. tin $5.40. 

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NEW HULLESS OATS 
“NAKOTA” 
Minnesota Accessory No. 741 
Nakota Hulless Oats the 
by 
South Dakota Experiment Station from a double 
was developed 
cross (Markton x Richland) x (Swedish Select 
x Kilby). It is early maturing, and just a day or 
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. 
Hulless Oats are very for feeding 
young pigs and poultry. 
popular 
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 
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 
lbs. per acre, as this variety stools very heavily. 
Order early. See Blue Figure Price List. 
New Marion Oats brings a premium on the market. 


Midseason and Late Varieties 
MINRUS OATS 
Rust Resistant 
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 Minrus 
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 Blue 
Figure Price List. 
Wheat and Oats 
Profitable Combination Crop 

Minrus matures 
‘A profitable practice is to grow oats and 
wheat in 
bu. 
Yields of 50 to 60 
of oats and. 20°to- 30. bu. of wheat. per 
acre have been reported. A combination crop 
returns more profit per acre than either wheat 
or oats separately. Use 1% bu. of oats and 
% bu. of wheat per acre. New Regent or 
Rival Wheat, grown with Minrus Oats, gives 
the best results as they ripen about the same 
time. Other good combination crops are 
barley with early oats, wheat with flax, 
THE BATTLE AGAINST DISEASE 
IN SEED GRAINS 
1943 Small Grain Crops Badly Diseased 
Ceresan Treatment Urgent in 1944! 
combination. 
Surveys show a large amount of disease pres- 
ent in small grains of 1943 crop, especially in 
wheat, barley and oats. Favorable conditions for 
over-wintering of disease organisms, favorable 
weather for the spread of disease during the 
growing season, and also abnormal moisture sup- 
ply, were contributing factors. 
Dr. J. J. Christensen, University of 
Minnesota Plant Pathologist, states 
that wheat and barley are heavily in- 
fected, particularly with the organism 
causing scab. Seed ghould be thor- 
oughly recleaned, removing blighted 
kernels. Seed should then be treated, 
as those kernels still 
tion will produce only weak seedlings. 
Ceresan treatment will thus produce 
much better stands, 
C, H. Schrader, of the State De- 
partment of Agriculture, says much 
of the 1943 crop of oats shows poor 
germination, even though it looks and 
weighs well, 
carrying infec- 
Because of the serious disease prob- 
lem, a Plant Disease Conference, 
sponsored by the Northwest Crop Im- 
provement Association, was held in 
Minneapolis in December. Agricultur- 
al experts from six states attended 
and mapped a plant disease battle 
program. The annual loss paid by 
Northwest farmers because of plant 
disease runs into millions of dollars. 
Disease was already severe in 1942. 
Some farmers secured such poor 
Stands of small grain, they had to re- 
seed their entire acreage. Using in- 
ferior, untested seed is an expensive 
and heavy risk. 
Our quality seed stocks of small - 
grains have been very carefully select- 
ed, re-cleaned, tested, and have good 
germination, Don’t take a chance 
with questionable seed, Build protec- 
tion with a foundation of good seed 
and don’t fail té treat all seed grains 
you plant with New Improved Cere- 
san. (See page 65.) There will be 
a record demand, so be sure to place 
your orders early. 

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