Coker’s Pedigreed 
VICTORGRAIN OATS 
1947 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 successfully 
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 1938, Victoria, a South Ameri- 
can 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. 

Victorgrain oat shown with 
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 
lto 4 bags $20.00 per bag 
Aston 2aba tse $19.00 per bag 
12 bags or over ___ $18.00 per bag 
(4 bushels oats per bag) 
These oats treated with new improved 
(5%) Ceresan. _ 
NOTE: Although our 1947 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. 
and without hull. Enlarged to 
show plump, well filled berry. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF 1947 STRAIN 
Our 1947 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 thousands 
of head-to-rows of this variety. It is remarkably 
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. 
Smut Resistance: Resistant to all known races 
of smut. 
VARIETY TEST RESULTS 
In the 1946 Spring Seeded Test at Denton 
Sub-Station, Denton, Texas, Victorgrain pro- 
duced the highest yield of any of the nine varieties 
tested, producing 638.2 bu. per acre. Quoting from 
the Agricultural Experiment Station report issued 
at College Station, Texas: .... The new rust 
resistant varieties Fultex and Victorgrain are 
suited to both fall and spring seeding. . . 
In a four-year average, 1944-1947, of the oat 
variety tests conducted at State College, Miss., 
Victorgrain came first. Seven leading oat varieties 
were included in tests. 
Coker’s Victorgrain Oats led the 1947 Edisto 
Experiment Station, Blackville, S. C., Oat var- 
iety test with a yield of 108 bushels per acre. Ful- 
grain came third with a 96.2 bu. Thirteen oat 
varieties were tested. 
For Description of Coker’s Pedigreed Fulgrain Oats, see page 5. 
