Coker’s Pedigreed 
VICTORGRAIN STRAIN 4 OATS 
A NEW, HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE, UNIFORM 
STRAIN RESISTANT TO THE RECENTLY 
DISCOVERED VICTORGRAIN SMUT. 
In our new Strain 4 of Coker’s Victorgrain 
Cats we have been able to retain all of the 
desirable qualities of the earlier strains of this 
variety and in addition to add resistance to the 
virulent new race of Victorgrain smut. Strain 
4 which is highly productive with resistance 
to leaf rust and smut, with a sturdy, wiry straw 
and long well-balanced heads, more nearly ap- 
proaches our ideal of an oat for the cotton belt 
than any we have hitherto been able to offer 
during our 36 years of grain breeding. 
Coker’s Victorgrain Oat, which was first 
offered our customers in the fall of 1940, has 
made an enviable record in the southern oat belt. 
The hundred of thousands of acres now being 
planted by satisfied growers from Southern Vir- 
ginia to Northern Florida and from Tidewater 
Carolina to the Mississippi Valley and south into 
Louisiana and Texas—is evidence of its wide 
adaptability and combination of superior qualities. 
BREEDING HISTORY 
In 1933, Victoria, a South American variety, 
which is a highly smut and rust-resistant oat 
but having no cold resistance and a heavy awn 
on the first grain, was crossed on our early, 
highly productive Fulgrain oat. The object was 
to breed an oat that combined the rust resistance 
and extreme smut resistance of Victoria with 
the cold resistance, earliness, production and 
desirable grain characters of Fulgrain. After 
eight years of breeding, selecting and testing and 
the handling of thousands of head selections and 
head-to-rows, a striking new oat was evolved 
combining the best features of each parent with- 
out their undesirable characters. This oat we 
named Victorgrain. 
VICTORGRAIN BEST GENERAL 
PURPOSE OAT 
Victorgrain, in our opinion, is the best general 
purpose oat that we have so far been able to 
breed. No effort or expense is spared to correct 
any weakness that might appear and_ to 
strengthen the many desirable characteristics. 
Left: This photograph of our Victorgrain Oats shows 
heavy, long, well balanced heads, excellent stooling and stiff, 
storm-resistant straw of this variety. 
We were much disturbed by the appearance of 
a race of smut to which Victorgrain Strains 1, 
2 and 3 were susceptible. Fortunately, this oat 
was hybrid for resistance to this particular race. 
Through our extensive breeding program and 
tests and the cooperation of Dr. George M. Reed, 
curator of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a 
world authority on oat smuts, we have been able 
to get the smut reaction of a large number of 
strains of Victorgrain and find a good number 
that show a very high degree of resistance to 
this virulent race and also to all other known 
races. Our breeding program henceforth is con- 
fined to those lines having this resistance. Among 
these is Victorgrain, Strain 4. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant: Semi-procumbent—profuse tillering. Cold 
resistant. Is of medium height, grows about 
75% as tall as Red Rust Proof or Appler. 
Smut Resistance: Resistant to all known races 
of smut. 
Rust Resistance: Highly resistant to leaf rust. 
Season: Week earlier than Red Rust Proof. 
Heads: Long and well balanced. 
Straw: Very stiff, storm resistant. Ideal for com- 
bining. 
Grains: Attractive, bright, resisting weather 
stain, plump, well-filled berry, low per cent 
hull, high feeding value. 
Production: The best of any southern variety 
which we have bred or tested. 
Uniformity: Excellent. 
PRICES: 1 to 12 bushels, $5.00 per bushel. 
12 to 48 bushels, $4.75 per bushel. 
Above 48 bushels, $4.50 per bushel. 
These oats treated with Ceresan. 
NOTE: Although our Victorgrain Strain 4 has 
shown high resistance to all known races of smut, 
we are, nevertheless, treating these seed, because 
of the possibility that there are other races of 
smut not yet discovered to which the oat may be 
susceptible and because of the advantages of 
Ceresan treatment in better, healthier stands and 
increased yields. 
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