A BREEDING PROGRAM 
(Continued from page 3) 
ion is the best oat that our Company has ever 
bred. A high government authority made the 
statement, “The breeding of Victorgrain is a 
monument to your Company.” 
Our long time experience in small grain 
breeding and the extensive scale on which 
the work has been conducted places our com- 
pany in a very favored position. 
We have learned much through experience. 
We have developed and standardized our 
own breeding technique—a technique that en- 
ables our breeders to hardle and test accu- 
rately a large number of strains. Through 
this system we have been able to keep our 
standard varieties to the highest point of 
efficiency, and at the same time to keep a 
large number of new hybrid combinations 
passing through these accurate cold, smut, 
rust, and yield elimination tests. Seeking— 
ever seeking—that perfect strain, strains that 
are superior in some one or more character- 
istics to the best that we now have. 
BREEDING MATERIAL CONSTANTLY 
ENRICHED 
The possibilities in such a program vary 
directly as the richness of the material that 
one is making selections from, and the num- 
ber of such lines that can be accurately tested. 
We deal in thousands—our small grain breed- 
ing and test program the past season included 
over 51,000 test rows. Over 18,000 of these 
were in oat head-to-rows. 
These selections are each year drawn from 
our established lines and a stream of constant- 
ly enriched hybrid material that carries fac- 
tors for resistance to almost every known 
disease, 

MEETING THE CHALLENGE 
With our program, material and know-how 
we can definitely meet any hazard that might 
arise. For example, when Helminthosporium 
Victoriae appeared on the scene, we had al- 
ready bred and had in large increase a num- 
ber of oats with high resistance. One of these, 
Coker 45-67, also had highest production and 
is being offered this year. 
Behind Coker 45-67 we have a beautiful, 
stocky, early, maturing combine type oat that 
we expect to offer in the fall of 1949 as 
“Coker Sturdy.” This oat, in addition to being 
resistant to Helminthosporium and crown rust, 
compares most favorably with our best Vic- 
torgrain and Fulgrain oats in production. It 
originated from a cross made in 1937 between 
(Victoria x Richland) and Coker 32-1. It has 
been intensively bred and tested since 1939, 
and was ready to fill the need when the de- 
mand arose. 
A BREEDERS’ PARADISE 
We have many, many more very promis- 
ing resistant lines in the various stages of 
test and increase, any one of which can be 
called on to move in and line up for action. 
We also have ideal test plots that have been 
in a two year rotation with cotton for thirty 
or more years, and as a result have accumu- 
lated about every soil borne organism affect- 
ing oats. Fortunately these plots are rather 
uniformly infested with Helminthosporium 
Victoriae. Breeding always for highest pro- 
duction, storm resistance and quality grain, 
we have a perfect setup to add resistance to 
Helminthosporium Victoriae. 
What more could one ask—A veritable 
Breeders’ Paradise, and we are making the 
best use possible of material and environment 
to see that small grain production in the South 
is kept on a safe, sane and profitable basis. 
100% UNIFORMITY OF TYPE CANNOT 
BE EXPECTED 
While the general type and appearance of both our 
Victorgrain and Fulgrain oats are thoroughly fixed by 
many years of selection and breeding, in varieties 
of hybrid orgin such as these are, you will usually 
find a few plants per acre which are slightly different 
in appearance and height from the others. Remember 
Victorgrain and Fulgrain are rather short strawed 
oats and any taller off-types will stand out above the 
rest just like rye in a wheat field, and therefore can 
be easily seen and rogued out. In the taller growing 
varieties of oats such as Red Rust Proof. Stanton, and 
Clinton, the off-type plants will usually be shorter 
than the others and will not be noticed because they 
are covered up by the average height of the field. 
All fields of small grain grown for certification 
should be carefully rogued for removal of noxious 
weeds, off-types, etc., prior to inspection by certifying 
agency, no matter how pure or true to type the 
variety planted. 
ALL 1948 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK 
SEED OATS TREATED WITH NEW 
IMPROVED (5%) CERESAN 
Although our 1948 breeder foundation stock Fulgrain 
oats have shown high resistance to all known races 
of smut, and our Victorgrain and Stanton resistant 
to most races, we are nevertheless treating these seed 
with new improved (5%) Ceresan because of the 
advantages of Ceresan treatment in controlling the 
soil born diseases, resulting in better, healthier stands 
and increased yields. 

Page Five 
