Coker’s Pedigreed 
VICTORGRAIN 
OATS 
1946 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK 
The considerable cold resistance of Victorgrain 
combined with its high degree of resistance to 
leaf rust and its medium early maturity, makes 
it possible to grow this’ variety  success- 
fully under a wide range of conditions, and over 
sizeable territory. Reports on its satisfactory 
performance have been received from growers 
from southern Virginia to north Florida and 
from southern Missouri to Texas. The heads are 
long and well balanced; the grains are attractive 
and bright, resisting weather stain. The plump, 
well-filled grains are high in feeding 
value with a low percentage of hull. 
BREEDING HISTORY 
In 1933, Victoria, a South Ameri- 
ean 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, highly productive Fulgrain oat. 
The object was to breed an oat that 
combined the high rust and smut re- 
sistance of Victoria with the cold re- 
sistance, earliness, production and de- 
sirable grain characters of Fulgrain. 
After eight years of breeding, select- 
ing and testing and the handling of 
thousands of head selections and 
head-to-rows, a striking new oat was 
evolved combining the best features 
of each parent without their undesir- 
able characters. This oat we named 
Victorgrain. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF 1946 STRAIN 
Our 1946 strain of Victorgrain oats is very 
similar in type and appearance to strains offered 
in recent years. The desirable characters of this 
variety have been maintained through the annual 
selection and increase of the best from thou- 
sands of head-to-rows of this variety. It is re- 
markably pure and uniform, and we still consider 
it the best all round oat we have offered. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant: Semi-procumbent—profuse tillering. Cold 
resistant. Is of medium height, grows about 
75% as tall as Red Rust Proof or Appler. 
Left: 1946 increase field of Victorgrain oats. 

Victorgrain 
with and without hull. En- 
larged to show plump, well 
filled grain. 
Smut Resistance: Resistant to all known races 
of smut. 
Rust Resistance: Highly resistant to leaf or 
crown 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 
1 to 12 bushels __$5.00 per bushel 
12 to 48 bushels __$4.75 per bushel 
Above 48 bushels $4.50 per bushel 
These oats treated with Ceresan. 
NOTE: Although our 1946 strain 
of Victorgrain has shown high resist- 
ance to all known races of smut, we 
are, nevertheless, treating these seed 
because of the possibility that there 
are other races of smut not yet dis- 
covered to which the oat may be sus- 
ceptible, and because of the advan- 
tages of Ceresan treatment in better, 
healthier stands and increased yields. 
oat shown 
“The average Southern farmer has in prospect 
for this fall a greater net profit than he ever 
before enjoyed. What will he do with it? Will he 
show prudence and patriotism, pay his debts, in- 
vest liberally in liberty bonds, contribute to the 
Red Cross and other charitable war agencies, 
respond to all other patriotic calls made on him 
by the Nation and the State Councils of Defense, 
and put aside the balance for those emergencies 
which the future is almost sure to bring forth? 
Or will he launch upon various speculations and 
extravagances which will make the temporary 
prosperity a curse rather than a blessing?” 
Fall 1917 David R. Coker 
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