Clie Padigreed 
VICTORGRAIN OATS 
1948 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK 
Fifteen years ago we made the original cross between 
two outstanding oat varieties (Victoria and Fulgrain) 
which eight years later resulted in the development of 
one of the outstanding oat varieties ever planted in 
the South—that oat was Coker’s Victorgrain. 
Year by year since 1940, Victorgrain oats have in- 
creased in popularity and prestige and through a record 
of production and dependability have spread into virtu- 
ally all of the principal oat growing areas of the 
South. 
QUALITY PLUS YIELD 
What has been responsible for this general accept- 
ance on the part of so many thousands of Southern 
farmers? Why have growers from Virginia 
to Texas and from Carolina to Arkansas 
adopted this variety as their main source 
of winter feed grain? 
The answer is to be found in the years of 
costly, painstaking plant breeding work 
which went into the development of the 
variety, the scientific integrity of its breed- 
ers combined with practical “know-how” 
and a determination to produce an oat 
second to none in performance, in quality 
and quantity production. 
CONSTANTLY REFINED AND 
IMPROVED 
In our 1940 Grain Catalog when the Vic- 
torgrain Oat was first announced, we said 
that it was the best we had ever bred dur- 
ing our many years of Small Grain Breed- 
ing—and constantly refined and improved 
since that time, we still say it is the best 
that the Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Company 
has ever offered its customers during the 
forty years we have devoted to breeding 
better grains for the South. 
Year after year, we have received excellent reports 
from farmers throughout the southeast on their results 
with Victorgrain Oats, and we are reprinting several 
of them on pages 10 and 11 because they indicate the 
wide adaptability and performance of this variety. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant: Semi-procumbent—profuse tillering. Cold re- 
sistant. Is of medium height, grows about 75% 
as tall as Red Rust Proof or Appler. 
Smut Resistance: Resistant to most races of smut. 
Left — Ed B. Baskin, leading Lee County, South Carolina, farmer 
shown in field of 1948 breeder foundation stock Victorgrain oats. 
In spite of one of the most unfavorable growing seasons in years, 
this 50 acre field averaged 67 bushels per acre. 



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 16 bu. $5.00 per bu., $20.00 per bag 
16 to 48 bu._______. $4.75 per bu., $19.00 per bag 
48 bu. and up__$4.50 per bu., $18.00 per bag 
Prices F.O.B. Hartsville, S. C., 
or Memphis, Tenn. 
(4 bu. oats per bag) 
These oats treated with 5% Ceresan. 
WHAT RESISTANCE TO LEAF 
RUST MEANS 
Do you know what it means for an oat 
to have a high degree of resistance to leaf 
rust? No doubt with some of the older oat 
varieties such as Fulghum, Norton, or Lee, 
you have noticed what frequently happens 
during warm, moist spring seasons. First, 
Victorgrain oat shown with i 
Med eithout Wall’ Eulereed te the leaves of the oat plant begin to show a 
show plump, well filled berry. red, mottled look which rapidly spreads 
throughout the blades, cutting off the food 
supply from the oat heads and causing them to be light 
and chaffy. The leaves thus affected soon wither and 
turn a dirty, brownish-black color and the damage is 
done. Remember there is no known treatment that will 
prevent leaf rust in oats—an oat either has resistance 
or it doesn’t. 
What happens when the rust spores attack the leaves 
of Victorgrain or our newer strains of Fulgrain and 
Stanton? How does it resist the damaging attack of this 
deadly plant enemy? It does it simply by the “die-back” 
method—that is, when an area of rust infection starts, 
the “educated” blades of the plant immediately begin a 
process of isolating the rust spores by forming a small 
area of dead leaf surface all around the infectious 
pustules effectively checking the spread of the disease. 
The foliage is thus able to continue its vital function 
of manufacturing plant food for the seed heads. 
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