Coker’s Pedigreed 
VICTORGRAIN 48-93 OATS 
1952 BREEDER’S REGISTERED SEED 
Victorgrain 48-93 was first distributed in limited quantities 
in 1950. All available stocks were sold out so early in that 
season that the acreage planted for the 1951 crop of Regis- 
tered Seeds was doubled. However, the demand was such that 
all stocks were again sold very early in the summer of 1951. 
Although the acreage of foundation-planting for 1952 was 
again doubled, indications at this writing are that supplies 
still will be inadequate to meet the demands of growers for 
this new variety which has proved to be so popular through- 
out the fall-sown oat belt. 
BREEDING HISTORY 
In the course of routine reselection of the standard Victor- 
grain variety, one particular reselection was observed in the 
1945-46 breeding nursery as being different from any of the 
hundreds of other rows planted with panicle-selections from 
the same variety. This special selection was entered in the 
preliminary strains tests in 1946-47; thence to increase block 
No. 93 in 1947-48. In comparisons with the standard Victor- 
grain, the new variety, designated Victorgrain 48-93, was so 
strikingly superior in general characteristics, yield perform- 
ance and disease-resistance that full-scale increase was com- 
menced in 1948-49. The new variety replaced the old in the 
following year. 
Certain features of Victorgrain 48-93 suggest that it may 
have resulted from a chance backcross to the original Ful- 
grain (Str. 1-3) variety. On the other hand it may have 
originated as a natural genetic variant of the standard Victor- 
over those of other breeders. It is, however, of some interest 
to note that Victorgrain 48-93 in our 1952 nursery tests 
yielded 70.0 bushels per acre while the Victorgrain parental 
type yielded only 61.1 bushels. 
YIELD RECORD IN STATION TESTS 
Last year, Victorgrain 48-93 led the list of commercially- 
available varieties in Station or Official Variety Tests at the 
following locations: Florence, S. C.; Statesville, Whitakers 
and Raeford, N. C.; St. Joseph, La.; and Stoneville and State 
College, Miss. 
Average yields from tests at 6 locations in Mississippi 
placed Victorgrain 48-93 first among 19 varieties and strains 
tested at those points. At the Delta Experiment Station, 
Stoneville, Miss., Victorgrain 48-93 has led the 3-year aver- 
age yield of commercially-available varieties. 
AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS 
The perfect oat variety has never been and doubtless never 
will be produced; nonetheless, we believe that Victorgrain 
48-93 more closely approaches the ideal variety than any other 
oat presently obtainable in the South. While no official esti- 
mates of varietal distribution over the southern territory are 
available, there is no doubt that more Registered Seeds 
of this variety are being distributed than of any other one 
variety in the South. Such predominance of distribution 
attests the general adaptation of the variety. Victorgrain 
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grain. The really important consideration is the general 
superiority of Victorgrain 48-93 over other varieties. It is 
not the policy of this Company to quote comparative data 
from our own tests to publicize the advantages of our varieties 
Below, left—Our Max E. Jones congratulates Addison Mills, successful 
farmer of Union County, N. C., on another bumper crop of Victorgrain 
48-93 oats as Mr. Starnes of the Secrest Feed & Seed Co., Monroe, N. C., [6] 
Coker’s seed distributors, smiles approvingly. Mr. Mills says, “I like this 
oat, for it stands up well, is early and yields heavier than any oat I ‘have 
ever grown.” 
Right Hand Page—Dr. T. R. Stanton, formerly Senior Agronomist in Charge 
of Oat Investigations, USDA, now Coker consultant on small grain breeding, 
and our S. J. Hadden shown in field of Coker’s Victorgrain 48-93 oats. This 
is one of our seed fields of registered seed produced for sale stock and 
yielded 96.4 bushels per acre. 
Below, right—Mr. H. M. McLaurin, Jr., of Wedgefield, S. C., proudly 
displays a bundle of Victorgrain 48-93 oats to Coker representative Jones. 
Mr. McLaurin says, “I have been particularly impressed with the fine 
grazing qualities of this oat as well as the high yields and earliness which 
enables me to follow this grain with a good crop of soybeans.” 
