
HOFFMAN “VICTORY’”’ OATS 
Vigorous Grower ... Heavy Cropper... 
Very Popular 
Year after year, for nearly twenty, here is the 
oats that has given Hoffman customers fine re- 
turns. Often making yields 8-10-20 bushels per 
acre, BETTER than many neighboring fields. 
Always noticed is its vigor in pushing up large 
spreading heads of good kernels. This vigorous 
trait, plus its ability to put up a good fight in 
adverse weather conditions and come through 
with good crops of grain and straw, has made 
Victory the favorite variety it is today. 
Each year many fine reports come from Vic- 
tory users—like these 1944 lines: From customer 
Ferry, Bedford County—"We had very poor 
weather for oats this year, but our Victory did 
well. Our thresher said it was the best oats he 
threshed.”’ Rodriques’, Rhode Island, letier said— 
“We were very much pleased with your Victory 
Oats. Tops and stalks were very heavy.” 
Michler, Somerset County—’'55 bushels per 
acre, 40 pounds to the bushel.” MHeutschel, 
Chester County—"Victory made 50 bushels per 
acre; very good in comparison to other yields 
around here. The weather was not exactly favor- 
able.” Reeser, Berks County—''Well pleased. 
Victory threshed 58 bushels per acre .. . very 
dry season ... made large white kernels... 
solid grain, good feed . . . drew the attention of 
a lot of folks of this locality." Customer Hunt, 
New Jersey—"Excellent, about 45-bushel yield 
in spite of late seeding, followed by drought that 
threatened the crop.” 
Hoffman Victory grows tall straw that resists 
bad weather, wind and rain to a high degree— 
considering the heavy weight of grain it carries. 
Makes good kernels, thin hulls, high feed value. 
One big Hoffman Victory advantage is its thor- 
ough cleaning. Means extra bushels at harvest. 
Another, its vigor, due to its production in the 
right northern locations. Has much more of this 
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Extra Phosphate 
An excellent place to use it is in 
the cow stable. 1% to 2 pounds a 
day in the gutters and on the floor 
will reduce the loss of nitrogen 
from the manure and make it a 
better-balanced fertilizer. Also im- 
prove sanitary conditions in the 
stable. 
Pigs and Explosives 
A  300-pound porker furnished 
enough fat to make 30 pounds ni- 
troglycerine, which in turn makes 
60 pounds of. explosives. 
Silent Thief 
A 4 per cent grade would be the 
same gradual slant you'd get by 
leaning a yardstick on a 1%-inch 
prop. Yet a 4 per cent sloping field 
in Ohio, through a 41-year check, 
lost 8.9 inches of soil! Corn had 
been its main crop. ... Plow across 
the slope—make every furrow a 
dam—to hold the water ... and the 
soil! Easier to work, takes less 
gas, saves yourself too. 
Better Cattle Feed 
Disc up permanent pasture; work 
in lime and phosphate, and make 
a seed bed for legumes without 
destroying the grass stand. 
Blue grass cut up with a disc 
soon has proved thicker and more 
vigorous than that which had not 
been worked. On treated ground 
it grew rank and leafy, was dark 
green in color and soon smothered 
out weeds. The treatment was still 
effective after 4 years and was 4 
times as productive as an untreated 
acre. 
Buckrakes Save Labor 
There’s other work for them be- 
sides at haying time. .. . Bringing 
grain for threshing, hauling green 
corn fodder or grass to silage chop- 
per, taking pea vines to the huller, 
and many other chores. Newer 
models are usually attached to rear 
of 1%-ton dump truck with hy- 
draulic cylinder—or an_ old car 
with an extra axle added in front 
for the power lift. 
