Coker’s Pedigreed 
HARDIRED STRAIN 5 WHEAT 
AN IMPROVED STRAIN WIDELY ADAPTED 
FOR THE COTTON BELT. 
Coker’s Hardired Wheat Strain 5 is our new- 
est and best strain of the Hardired Variety first 
offered our customers in the fall of 1940. 
Hardired Strain 5 is of medium early maturity, 
ripening about a week later than Redhart Strains 
and about one week earlier than Leap’s Prolific, 
Forward and Fuleaster. The heads are long, 
shales and well-filled with grain of high milling 
value. 
It has considerable cold resistance, is resistant 
to the early types of rust and to most races 
of mildew. (See important note above photo- 
graph.) 
Hardired wheat stools (tillers) profusely and 
consequently, less seed per acre is needed than 
with most other varieties. Heavier seedings some- 
time result in shorter heads and smaller, weaker 
straw. 
This wheat grows somewhat taller than Red- 
hart, and consequently, its storm resistance is 
not as great. Although we have never suffered 
any loss of this variety on our farms from 
lodging, we do not recommend it for planting 
on heaviest types of soil, high in organic matter 
or nitrogen content. 
EXCELLENT VARIETY TEST RECORD 
Our Hardired strains of wheat have led all 
varieties tested by the North Carolina Experi- 
ment Station in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain 
sections for an average of all years tested, and 
likewise came first in the five-year average test 
at Stoneville, Mississippi. It ranked second in the 
1943 Clemson College test, stood near the top 
in test at the Pee Dee Experiment Station, 
Florence, S. C., and led all commercial strains at 
Edisto Experiment Station, Blackville, S. C. 
In the 1941 South Carolina three-acre wheat 
contest (the only year such a contest has been 
held in South Carolina), Hardired made the high- 
est yield record of any variety planted—an aver- 
age yield of 33.56 bushels, and won first state 
prize with a yield of 56.5 bushels per acre. 
We have received good reports from most 
of the Southeastern States on this variety which 
gives an indication of its wide adaptability and 
satisfactory performance under varying condi- 
tions. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant: Winter type, profuse tillering, cold resist- 
ant, mildew resistant (see note above photo- 
graph); high tolerance to early types of leaf 
rust. 
Season: Medium, week or ten days later than 
Redhart Strain 5. About one week earlier 
than Leap’s Prolific, Forward and Fulcaster. 
Heads: Long, square, well filled. 
Left: Increase field of Coker’s Hardired Wheat. 
Straw: Good, enabling ease of harvest with 
minimum loss. 
Grains: Very similar to Redhart; high milling 
value. 
Production: Highest. 
PRICES: 
1ptoyl 2a bushelg p=. sews aoe $5.00 per bushel 
12°to 48 bushels) 2232 $4.75 per bushel 
Above 48 bushels _ $4.50 per bushel 
IMPORTANT NOTE: Last year for the first 
time since we introduced our Hardired Wheat 
five years ago, and again this year, we have 
discovered severe mildew damage in some of 
our increase fields. Because of the high degree of 
resistance to mildew which this variety hereto- 
fore has shown, we are convinced that this is a 
new race. We believe that Hardired will continue 
to show resistance to the type of mildew against 
which it has been bred, and will suffer loss only 
when attacked by this newly discovered race or 
others yet to be discovered. 

Above: Showing long, square, well filled heads 
of Hardired Wheat. 
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