To Our Customers: 
Our Government has again called on the 
farmers of this Nation to produce record 
quantities of food and feed stuffs, meat and 
dairy products. It is necessary not only to 
supply the needs of our armed forces and 
civilian population but an ever growing 
number of peoples in liberated countries 
and former enemies whose agriculture and 
transportation have been crippled by the 
devastation of war. 
The recent critical meat shortage has 
focused public attention on the disparity 
between cost of producing meat and ceil- 
ing prices, and has brought home to our 
farmers the fundamental importance of 
adequate supplies of home grown, eco- 
nomically produced feed stuffs. 
The tremendously expanded acreage of 
small grain in the South, in recent years, 
is a fair index of the contribution that 
the Southern farmers are making to our 
nation’s war time livestock program. Yet 
while our livestock production has grown 
rapidly, we are still a deficit producing 
area and have far to go before we will be 
growing enough meat and dairy products 
to supply our own needs. 
By overcoming many of the natural 
hazards of grain growing, and by adding 
to the yields and quality of our Southern 
grain crops, thereby contributing greatly 
to the food, feed, milk, and livestock pro- 
gram, the skill of the plant breeder has 
proven to be not less important than that 
of the men who make the guns, tanks and 
planes. 
This copy of our 1945 Grain Catalog 
tells in word and picture the story of our 

GEORGE J. WILDS 
President and General Manager 
latest developments in oats, wheat and 
rye—grains that have been bred especially 
for the Cotton Belt and that combine those 
characteristics that enable them to with- 
stand many of the hazards of weather and 
disease. They will utilize the advantages 
of soil, fertilizer and climate in the pro- 
duction of satisfactory yields of quality 
grain. 

—TABLE OF CONTENTS-— 
John F. Clyburn Memorial Page............ 1 
To Our Customers by George J. 
Wilds, President and General 
IVEY ele Cl a ree eee ee tot, sere Ik 3 
WiCtonora limo LGaileos OALse2 2. ee 22 A-5 
iu lona tiie LC e Oats sete ters 6-7 
Suggestions on Growing Certified 
(OHSS) COD en a a Veet eS ee ee ¢ 
SLARMLONS OLA Ie ok eis eae cee eee 8 
PO TUZ Zia Ula le eso Ley Came ee te ee 9 
Hardibed strainioaw Nea tes = 10-11 
Redhartestraineo:W neate.2.) 12-13 
Our Breeding Program on Small 
Grains in Word and Picture............ 14-19 
Business Terms 
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