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WOODS CROP SPECIAL 
Giving Timely Information and Prices of Seasonable Seeds 
PUBLISHED BY0T.W.WOOD & SONS. SEEDSMEN 
Wood’s Pedigreed Grain 
We are the largest Southern breeders and growers of small 
grain seed, growing 6,269 acres from the finest Registered or 
Certified stock. To avoid mixing in the drill or combine, only 
one variety of a crop is grown on any one farm. No crop is 
planted in a field where any other small grain was grown last 
season. All fields are carefully rogued free of mixture. 
State 
Crop Improvement Associations closely inspect: our breeding 
and production fields. 


THORNE wheat we grew for stock 
seed from hot water treated foundation 
seed. The Crop Improvement Associa- 
tion found no objectionable weeds, dis- 
ease or crop mixture in it. C. S. Richard- 
son, Forsyth Co., N. C., says: “Wet 
weather delayed wheat harvest 2 weeks, 
causing my old wheat to fall down badly. 
Your Thorne wheat stood up well and 
yielded 40 bus. per acre. I will plant 
all my crop in it next year. 
It is reeommended in the N. C. Moun- 
tains, where it has been the highest 
yielding wheat for years in experiment 
station tests, making 47 bu. per acre in 
1948, resisting stgrm and winter. 
NURED SMOOTH WHEAT 
An improved strain of Forward; same 
stiff straw, long full heads and big 
plump grains, but more smut and rust 
resistant, higher yield and is replacing 
it At the top in Tenn. and Va. tests 4 
years. Made a record 49.2 bu. acre at 
Williamsburg. Earlier, shorter, more 
rust resistant than Vahart. 
VAHART SMOOTH WHEAT 
Va. recommends it. Highest average 
yield for 4 years at the 6 Va. experi- 
ment stations, and 9 years at V. P. I. 
A selection from Redhart, it averaged 5 
bu. more per acre, is a week later with 
taller much stronger stalks and larger, 
plumper heads. It resists cold, mildew 
and smut. Most Vahart seed is mixed, 
but ours is field rogued. 
REDHART SMOOTH WHEAT 
Earliest maturing wheat. Recommend- 
ed in S. C., N. C., Piedmont and Coast 
and Western Ky. Highest yield of any 
available wheat 2 years in N. C. Coast 
tests. Short, strong straw. Resists 
storms and stem rust. Good stooling. 
They permit no crop mixture, objection- 
able weeds or seed borne disease in either the field or bin in- 
spections for Foundation or Registered seeds. 
of our breeding fields pass this rigid test. 
Every year more 
harvest our oat breeding plots. 
foundation strains of all our small grains. We hot water treat 
RICHMOND VA. 

Dr. T. R. Stanton, chief oat breeder for the U. S. D. A. 
(right), watching our staff of experienced plant breeders 
We constantly improve our 
our foundation seed of wheat and barley to prevent smut. 
WOOD’S SEED ABRUZZI RYE 
We are the only recognized founda- 
tion growers of Abruzzi Rye. For years 
we have bred for quick fall and heavy 
winter growth and grain yields. This in- 
sures earlier fall and more winter pas- 
ture or cover. Our strain yielded a 
record 54.6 bu. of grain per acre at 
Clemson, S. C. We clean Rye on ma- 
chinery devoted exclusively to Abruzzi. 
It resists insects and disease, thrives 
on lighter land, with less fertilizer, can 
be sown over a longer period, is more 
winter hardy and gives more winter pas- 
ture than other small grains. 

W. C. Johnson, King Wm. Co., 
left, showing long compact heavy Cal- 
houn Barley, heads well filled with 6 
Vas 
rows of big plump grain, says: “I liked 
my 25 acres of Calhoun so well I will 
plant no other small grain. It made 
75 bu. per acre to 14 for my wheat and 
50 for oats, sown in Sept., which looked 
like wonderful crops until harvest. The 
Calhoun, sown only 2 bu. per acre Dec. 
23, stood the winter and stooled into a 
perfect stand. I cut it and sowed soy- 
beans 2 weeks before the wheat and 
oats ripened. My Wong rusted badly, 
made only % as much grain, and fell 
down so it had to be hogged off. Calhoun 
did not rust and stood up perfectly just 
the right height to combine. The grain 
ripens before the straw ,which holds up 
the heads long after harvest time. It 
does not shatter.” 
LEE COLD-PROOF OATS 
Recommended in Piedmont N. C., Va., 
Md., Del. and N. J. Made highest aver- 
age yield 2 years in Eastern Va. tests 
and 100.5 bu. per acre in Mountain Va. 
test. Yielded 107.8 bu. per acre in a 
N. C. test and 6% tons of hay per acre. 
Best winter oat in N. J., Del., and for 3 
years in Md. tests. Extreme winter re- 
sistance. Highest test weight grain. 
Tall, strong stalk. Tops for hay pasture 
or combine. ‘Your Lee yielded 86 bu. 
per acre of very nice, 37-lb. per bu. 
oats.”—-N. H, Bichtel, Chester Co., Pa. 
FORKEDEER OATS 
Highest yielding variety at the 6 Va. 
experiment stations 2 years, 5 years in 
Tenn., and 4 years in Del. Most winter 
hardy. Recommended in Piedmont and 
Mountain Va., Ky., and in N. C. Moun- 
tains testing 110 bu. per acre with good 
hay yield and mosaic resistance. Me- 
dium tall stiff straw. Easily combined. 
Mid-season. Heavy grains, less hull. 
STANTON OATS 
Recommended from Eastern Va. to 
Miss. Made a record 117.1 bu. per acre 
in a N. C. experiment station test and 
since 1945, the highest average yield in 
20 tests, and the most hay in 16 tests, 
averaging 5,520 lbs. per acre, and is 
rated tops in yield, winter hardiness and 
straw strength, mid-tall and mid-season. 
Made 101.3 bu. per acre in a Va. test, 
and 106.3 in a S. C. test. 
FULGRAIN OATS 
Earliest, shortest, stiffest straw and 
most popular recommended oat from 
N. C. and S. C. Coast and Piedmont to 
Miss. Made 101.3 bu. per acre in a Va. 
test. Only 1% lodged, others up to 45%. 
Ideal to combine. Tillers profusely. 
Matures before hot weather. Resists 
rust and smut. Heads are long, well 
balanced and fruit heavily. Grains 
plump, heavy, of high feeding value. 

WOOD’S FULGRAIN, Strain 3 
Bred from the original Fulgrain va- 
riety 10 years thru severe Va. Winters, 
it is far more vigorous and heavy yield- 
ing than later Fulgrain strains which 
were crossed on Victoria. It made the 
highest yield of any available oat in the 
1949 Pee Dee, S. C. test, 15.1 bu. per 
acre more than Fulgrain 1949 B. F. S. 
It matures before rust and resists cold, 
smut and the dread Victoria blight, which 
can wipe out other Fulgrains, 
