Colon Padigreed 
STANTON OATS 
1948 BREEDER FOUNDATION STOCK 
A TALL GROWING, PRODUCTIVE OAT SUITED FOR 
GRAIN, HAY, OR FORAGE 
Coker’s Stanton Oat is a desirable variety for grain, 
hay or green feed. It is of medium late maturity and is 
highly resistant to cold and leaf rust. It combines a 
number of features which appeal to livestock feeders 
and dairymen. It grows rather tall and makes a pro- 
fuse leaf growth which provides more green feed, 
more hay or a greater tonnage of ensilage per acre. 
CLEANER GRAIN AND RUST-FREE 
FORAGE 
Stanton is a heavy yielder of grain as 
well as hay, and its resistance to rust helps 
produce bigger yields of grain and rust-free 
forage. An oat which produces plenty of 
straw, as well as good yields of grain, is also 
desirable since livestock feeders have a use 
for their oat straw for bedding and litter 
and to produce abundant manure. This va- 
riety has long, well balanced heads and an 
attractive yellow grain. 
LEADS AT TIFTON, GEORGIA, STATION 
Coker’s Stanton has been included in oat 
variety tests conducted at Georgia Coastal 
Plain Experiment Station at Tifton, Georgia, 
since this variety was first introduced in 
1941. During the seven years that it has 
been tested there in competition with other 
leading varieties, Stanton has consistently 
stood at or near the top, and on an average 
of the years tested, showed a yield of 3.2 
bushels per acre more than the next high- 
est. The 1947 Station Bulletin has this to 
say, “During recent years, Coker’s Stanton 
has been giving good yields and is con- 
sidered best adapted of the newer varie- 
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HIGH HAY AND GRAIN YIELDS 
NORTH CAROLINA 
The suitability of Coker’s Stanton oat for the pro- 
duction of either grain or hay is shown by the results 
of tests conducted under the supervision of the North 
Carolina Experiment Station in 1944. In an average of 
three tests, Stanton produced 6,800 pounds of hay per 
acre, tying for first place; and led all varieties in yield 
of grain in an average of 55 tests conducted over a 
three-year period throughout the state of North Caro- 
lina. 
Stanton 
bright to rich 
tractive grain. 
IN 
BREEDING HISTORY 
Dr. T. R. Stanton, Chief Agronomist in charge USDA 
Oat Investigation, turned over to us, at our request, 
one quart of the mass fourth generation seed coming 
from his Lee x Victoria cross in the fall of 1932. We 
planted that fall 432 rod rows with these seed, planting 
on the ground level so as to subject them to maximum 
cold. That winter, cold was severe, killing outright 
many plants and severely damaging others, but some 
plants came through beautifully, showing no effect of 
cold. Each of these was staked, and the following fall 
767 of the best of these were put in plant-to-rows. 
Fortunately, leaf rust infection was heavy in the 
spring of 1934, which gave us an opportunity to dis- 
card all progenies that did not show a high degree of 
Coker’s Stanton oats produce good yields of forage, hay or grain. 

oats 
rust resistance. Each year since 1934, we have selected 
thousands of heads from good lines. These have been 
planted in head-to-rows, the best of these in cold, smut, 
rust and yield tests, the best of them in increase blocks 
and on through such vigorous tests in a supreme effort 
to find a variety that would be worthy of bearing the 
name Stanton. 
WORTHY OF ITS DISTINGUISHED 
NAME 
We found the answer in a selection made 
in the spring of 1937. (The ninth generation 
of cross.) The oat was in head-to-row tests 
in 1937-1938 and in yield, cold and smut 
tests in 1988 and 1939. In this test, it pro- 
duced 74 bushels per acre against 57.4 
bushels of Fulgrain Strain 3. This was a 
bad rust year. In test in 1939 and 1940, 
Stanton produced 76.8 bushels per acre and 
Fulgrain Strain 3, 77.7 bushels; in 1940 and 
1941 tests, Stanton produced 86.6 bushels 
per acre and Fulgrain Strain 3, 76.7 bushels. 
This consistently good yield record con- 
vinees us of its real merit and that it is 
worthy of bearing the distinguished name, 
Stanton, in honor of Dr. T. R. Stanton. 
DESCRIPTION 
Plant: Procumbent, winter type, profuse 
tillering, long fine blades, cold resis- 
tant, rust resistant, slightly taller than 
Red Rust Proof. 
Season: A week later than Victorgrain; 
same as Red Rust Proof. 
produce a 
yellow, at- 
Heads: Very long, well balanced. 
Grains: Bright to rich yellow, attractive, a few with 
awns or beard. 
Production: Better than parent strain. 
Utility: Ideal for grain. Its profuse leaf growth, tiller- 
ing, height, and rust resistance make it also an 
ideal oat for either hay or silage. 
(These oats treated with 5% Ceresan) 
PRICES 
1 to 16 bushels_... $5.00 per bu., $20.00 per bag 
16 to 48 bushels. $4.75 per bu., $19.00 per bag 
48 bushels and up... $4.50 per bu., $18.00 per bag 
(4 bushels oats per bag) 
Prices F.O.B. Hartsville, S. C., or Memphis, Tenn. 
BEST I HAVE EVER RAISED 
“T planted Stanton oats on 14 acres of pasture land 
that had been turned and disced three times, but being 
so dry I didn’t get planted until December 1st. They 
are the best I’ve ever raised, and I’ve had 75 bushels 
per acre oats before. I think they will make from 80 
to 90 bushels per acre in most of the land where I 
got the Bermuda sod worked up good. I also think 
they are 99.99 percent free from dock and cheat.” 
W. B. Gill, Nesbitt, Miss. June 22, 1948 
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