OLDS’ SEED OATS 
VICLAND 
The New Seusationdl 
Recard- Breaking Oat 



A Sheaf of Vicland Oats. Note the heavy heads. 
VICLAND HAS PROVEN ITS VALUE 
“Our field of Vicland Oats averaged over 100 
bushels to the acre. The nicest oats we have seen 
in a long time.” : 
McMahan Seed Co., Indiana. 
“T thought you might be interested to learn that 
we threshed 876 bushels of Oats from the 12 
bushels of Vicland Oats we purchased from you 
last spring,” 
G. A. Bemmels, Minnesota. 
“The Vicland Oats we purchased from you last 
vear went 100 bushels to the acre on muck land, 
We were well pleased with them.” 
Geo. Isherwood & Son, Wis. 
“T am very glad that I put in the Vicland Oats 
for I had an average of about 50 bushels to the 
acre. This is about twice the yield of other kinds 
around here this year.” 
A, D. Allen, Michigan. 
VICLAND OATS BULLETIN SENT FREE 
UPON REQUEST. 


“‘No More 
Bad Oat 
Years”’ 

A field of foundation stock of Vicland Oat on the University of Wisconsin 
Hill Farm at Madison. 
VICLAND AVERAGES 50% INCREASE IN YIELD 
_,We are discarding all other varieties of oats as there is only one variety to grow and that is 
Vicland, With the record the Vicland has made, you are wasting time, money, and land by sow- 
ing any other oat. 
Vicland Oat is a new high-yielding, disease resistant variety first distributed by the Wisconsin 
Agriculture Experiment Station in 1941. It is a cross of Victoria, a South American oat, and 
Richland, an Iowa variety of Russian origin. The cross was made at the Arlington Experimental 
Farm, Arlington, Virginia, in 1930, Thirty-three selections from progenies of this cross were 
sent to Wisconsin in 1935 for further evaluation and selection. Tests in Wisconsin for resistance 
to rust and smut and for yield and quality cover a period of nine years. The most promising 
selection was named Vicland in 1940. The good qualities of the two parents were thus combined 
into a new variety. Vicland was adapted to our northern growing conditions, while Victoria 
Was resistant to leaf-rust and smut. The result was a better yielding variety than either of its 
parents. Since it was released in 1941, when it sold for as high as $5.00 per bushel, its popu- 
larity has so increased that over one-half of the total acreage of oats in Wisconsin production in 
1943 was Vicland. Yield tests in Madison began in 1936. During the eight-year tests Vicland 
ranged from 45.3 bushels per acre (in the hot year, 1936), to 95.4 bushels per acre in 1938. The 
average yield was 69.8 bushels per acre. During the same years in the same test, States Pride, 
which was our heaviest yielding oat until the introduction of Vicland, ranged from 34.1 bushels 
to 71.3 bushels or an average of 49.7 bushels per acre. The difference in the eight-year test is 
about 40 per cent in favor of Vicland over States Pride, The increase was much greater when 
compared with the older varieties of oats or a year when smut and rust were heavy. Reports 
of yields of over 100 bushels per acre are not uncommon. Vicland is an early, yellow, short straw 
variety and on fertile soil the straw will attain a good height, but on soils low in fertility, we 
do not recommend it as the straw is likely to be too short to cut with a binder. Kernels are 
medium in size and well filled, with light or no awns, often running 36 pounds or more per 
bushel from the thresher. It goes through a long dormancy period after harvest and will stand in 
the shock for a long period without germinating. This is a distinct advantage in rainy weather. 
For maximum yield we recommend sowing early on a firm but fairly rough seed bed at the rate 
of two bushels per acre. One hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds of 0-20-10 fertilizer is 
recommended for best results. 
Harvesting with a combine should be delayed until straw is yellow and the grain fully ripe. 
Vicland straw remains green longer than the older varieties and it is well to be sure grain is fully 
ripe by waiting an additional three or four days before combining. 
Prices, Certified Wisconsin W Brand, First Generation, by freight: 3 bu. sealed bags, $7.20; 
3 bags (9 bu.), $7.05 per bag. Sacked in new bags which are free. i 
VICLAND OATS FROM CERTIFIED STOCK 
Growers who are interested in buying large quantities of seed oats and do not want to pay the 
premium for Certified Stock will find 
our Standard Stock grown from Cer- 
tified seed excellent. We sell tremen- 
dous quantities of this stock each year. 
Prices, Standard Seed, grown from 
Certified Stock, by freight: Pk., 55c; 
bu... $1.75; 10 bus., $1.70 per bu. 
Packed in used bags which are free. 

Sheaf of Ss oe TR 
SPELTZ OR EMMER 
(Sow 100 to 125 pounds of seed to an acre.) 
Farmers ought to sow more Speltz. It makes 
splendid feed and lots of it. Excellent balanced 
ground feed for’ horses, cattle or hogs. Its large 
hull gives it the lightness of Oats while the double 
kernels furnish a rich meal much like ground Rye 
feed. It is adapted to dry regions, is hardy, yields 
heavy and stands up well. 
Standard Seed. By freight: Pk., 80c; bu., $2.40; 
A field of shocked Vicland oats. (Courtesy Wisconsin College of Agriculture.) 3 bus. at $2.35 per bu. Sacks free. 
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