Coker’s Pedigreed 
VICTORGRAIN 48-93 OATS 
1951 BREEDER’S 
Coker’s Victorgrain 48-93 originated from a selec- 
tion of Victorgrain, but the line from which it was 
selected showed definite evidence of being a chance 
hybrid between Victorgrain and the original Ful- 
grain (Strain 3). In type it is definitely half-way 
between these remarkably good parents. It has the 
extra vigor of the original Fulgrain, the long head 
of the Victorgrain, the plump grain of both parents, 
and leans to the original Fulgrain in color, having 
more of the red. 
EXCELLENT EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD 
Tests and field records show Victorgrain 48-93 
to be more productive than either of its parents. 
In all of the experiment station variety tests over 
the South last year, this variety made excellent 
records. In the Mississippi state oat variety test at 
Stoneville, Mississippi, Victorgrain 48-93 made an 
average yield of 79.1 bushels per acre, the highest 
average yield of any commercially available variety 
in the test. This record was made with a 78 per 
cent stand. It showed only 2 per cent lodging, which 
was the smallest amount of lodging of any variety. 
The next highest yield in the test was 74 bushels 
per acre made by Coker Fulgrain 48-107 (’51 breeder 
REGISTERED SEED 
stock). Victorgrain 48-93 also led in the South Caro- 
lina test at Edisto Experiment Station with an 
average yield of 91 bushels per acre; Spalding 
County, Georgia, test with 72.3 bushels per acre; 
the test at Headland, Alabama, with 96 bushels per 
acre; Camp Hill, Alabama, with 80 bushels per acre; 
and the Prattville, Alabama, test with 86 bushels 
per acre. 
Under field conditions Victorgrain 48-93 has shown 
a greater tolerance to Helminthosporium (Victoria 
blight) than the standard Victorgrain, although that 
disease has not been of any great importance in the 
past 3 years. This variety has a stiff straw and 
has excellent cold resistance. It is resistant to 2 of 
the 3 races of smut prevalent in the South but is 
susceptible to one race. For this reason it is impor- 
tant that seed harvested from the 1951 crop be 
treated with Ceresan this fall. 
BELOW: Coker’s Victorgrain 48-93 combines the most desirable qualities 
of its two excellent parents—Victorgrain and Fulgrain Strain 3. 
ON RIGHT: Dr. J. W. Neely, formerly of Stoneville, Miss., who joined 
our organization in April, 1951, as Director of Plant Breeding and Agri- 
cultural Research (on right of photo), and Robert R. Coker, Vice President, 
are pleased with this seed field of Victorgrain 48-93 oats which produced 
better than 100 bushels per acre. 
