To Our Customers: 
We take pleasure in presenting our 1944 
Fall Grain Catalog. In it, you will find 
descriptions and photographs of our lat- 
est developments in oats, wheat and rye. 
These grains have been bred especially 
for the cotton belt, and combine those 
characteristics that enable them to with- 
stand many of the hazards of weather 
and disease. They will utilize the ad- 
vantages of soil, fertilizer and climate in 
the production of remunerative yields of 
quality grain. 
Such varieties as Victorgrain, Fulgrain 
and Stanton oats, Redhart and Hardired 
wheat and Abruzzi rye are contributing 
to the diversified agriculture that we in 
the South are striving to attain. These 
varieties suit both our soils and climate 
and are adapted to machine harvesting. 
With such grains our farmers are making 
the maximum contribution to our Gov- 
ernment’s “Win the War” program. 
Fortunately, our breeding material and 
program is such as not only to insure con- 
stant improvement in these established 
lines but the development of new and still 

GEORGE J. WILDS, President and General Manager 
better types. Mr. Howard W. Blakeslee 
accurately and aptly portrays our oat 
breeding program in an interesting article 
appearing on pages 3 and 10 of this cata- 
log. Similar programs are under way with 
both wheat and barley. 
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— TABLE OF CONTENTS-— 
To Our Customers by George J. Wilds, 
President and General Manager__.. 1 
Our Plan for Distributing Seed by Robert 
R. Coker, V.-Pres. in Charge of Sales. ey 
Coker’s Plant Breeding at Hartsville 
Important to Southern Agriculture. 3 
Views of Our Breeding Farms —-- 4-5 
Coker’s Pedigreed Victorgrain Strain 4 Oats__6-7 
Coker’s Pedigreed Fulgrain Strain 6 Oats___.. 8-9 
Photographs of our Breeding Work.._______.10-11 
Coker’s Pedigreed Stanton Strain 2 Oats. 12-13 
Coker’s Pedigreed Hardired Strain 4 Wheat 14-15 
Coker’s Pedigreed Redhart Strain 5 Wheat __16-17 
Coker’s Pedigreed Abruzzi Strain 18 Rye. 17 
Suggestions on Growing Certified Oats 
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