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Sottnfap iy “VICLAND” 
4i-bu.-per-acre average ... 350 
Sow CERTIFIED Seed from this great 
Always combing the country for the 
outstanding seed crops, our buyers here 
at Hoffman really ‘rang the bell” on 
“Vicland” Oats this year. When their 
thorough search brought them to this 
bumper crop—350 acres, averaging 77 
bushels to the acre—they knew here 
was the end of the trail. Here was out- 
standing seed for our friends for this 
springs sowing! Something we are 
proud to offer—certified seed from a 
bumper crop, good germination, good 
color, heavy, plump seed of the most 
outstanding oats variety that has come 
along in a long time. This is not the kind 
of seed you might get from a neighbor, 
or your own last year's crop, or from 
some “bargain” lot—this is the REAL 
THING—it's seed you can't afford to 
turn down! 
“Vicland” has boomed in popularity 
like no other variety of oats has before 
—and rightly so, because it has demon- 
strated qualities which no other oats 
before it has shown. It is the result of a 
thorough scientific hybrid-breeding pro- 
gram. It’s a selection from a cross of 
Victorian—a good South American 
variety and Richland, an lowa variety 
of Russian origin—combining the best 
qualities of both parents to make an all- 
around outstanding variety. 


Above picture shows “Vicland’ Seed Oats, natural 
size. Inset, lower left, shows same grains with hulls 
removed. Note great size of hulled kernels. 
BIG-YIELD EXPERIENCE 
What are the features that have brought 
“Vicland” to the front so rapidly? Of 
course, the main thing we're interested 
in in oats, as in all crops, is YIELDS. 
And here ‘'Vicland” has a record that's 
really a record. Three-year averages of 
Wisconsin growers showed an average 
of 70 bushels per acre with."’Vicland,” 
compared to 45 for other varieties. In 
one year, in the State of Wisconsin 
alone, ‘‘Vicland” has been given credit 
by the Experiment Station for increasing 
the oats supply for feed by 20 million 
bushels. Here in the East results have 
been every bit as amazing. Reports of 
"18 bushels per acre more than my 
other oats.” . . . ‘Best oats we ever had.” 
. . . Stood right up and harvested a 
fine crop—averaged 26 bushels more 
than my brother-in-law’s oats.” 
