Coker’s Pedigreed 
VICTORGRAIN STRAIN 5 OATS 
A NEW, HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE, UNIFORM 
STRAIN RESISTANT TO THE RECENTLY 
DISCOVERED VICTORGRAIN SMUT. 
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 Virginia to 
Northern Florida and from Tidewater Carolina 
to the Mississippi Valley and south into Louisiana 
and Texas—is evidence of its wide adaptability 
and its combination of superior qualities. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF STRAIN 5 
Our new Victorgrain Strain 5 is the purest, 
most uniform strain we have offered. It has an 
excellent and dependable production record. The 
type and general appearance is the same as pre- 
vious strains of Victorgrain and the desirable 
features of the parent such as stiffness of straw, 
high resistance to leaf rust, and resistance to 
all types of smut against which it has been tested, 
have been maintained. 
VARIETY TEST RECORD 
Coker’s Victorgrain Oats are producing satis- 
factory yields over a wide range of territory 
in the Southeast, both under field conditions 
and in state conducted variety tests. In the 1943 
Delta experiment tests at Stoneville, Mississippi, 
Victorgrain made the highest yield of any of the 
fourteen varieties tested, and in the 1944 test 
stood near the top. In the 1944 North Carolina 
tests, Victorgrain Strains led all other varieties 
at Rocky Mount and Raeford in the Coastal Plain 
section, and at Shelby in the Piedmont section. 
It also came first in an average of two years 
test at Headland, and came second in the tests 
at Alexandria and Fairhope, Alabama. This oat 
has previously led tests at the Pee Dee Station 
at Florence, South Carolina, and at other loca- 
tions. 
BREEDING HISTORY 
In 1933 Victoria, a South American variety, 
which is a highly rust and smut resistant oat 
(but having no cold resistance and a heavy awn 
on the first grain), was crossed on our early, 
high productive Fulgrain oat. The object was to 
breed an oat that combined the high rust and 
smut resistance of Victoria with the cold resist- 
Left: Increase field of Victorgrain Strain 5 Oats showing 
long, heavy, well balanced heads. 
ance, earliness, production and desirable grain 
characters of Fulgrain. After eight years of 
breeding, selecting and testing and the hand- 
ling of thousands of head selections and head-to- 
rows, a striking new oat was evolved combin- 
ing the best features of each parent without 
their undesirable characters. This oat we named 
Victorgrain. 
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 
Ls tost2 bushels ese eee $5.00 per bushel 
12 toe48s bushels we ee $4.75 per bushel 
Above 48 bushels ._.........-._. $4.50 per bushel 
These oats treated with Ceresan. 
NOTE: Although our Victorgrain Strain 5 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 cf 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. 
WHY NEW STRAINS? 
The primary reason for the introduction of new 
strains of oats is not only to utilize the quality 
and productiveness of superior plants, but also 
to maintain purity through careful selection; and 
uniformity of type and freedom from noxious 
weeds through years of painstaking examination 
of test plots and increase fields with the careful 
elimination of undesirable foreign growths and 
off-type plants. 
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