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THE SHELDON OAK 
YEMASSEE « SOUTH CAROLINA 
F. B. DAVIS, JR.. Owner 
July 95 1952 
Mr. Robert R. Coker, President 
Coker's Pedigreed Seed Company 
Hartsville, S. 
Ce. 
Dear Mr. Coker: 
to our experience with 
We are writing you in reference : 
Cokeet a Victorgrain 8-93 oats here at Brays Island 
v own 18-93 Victorgrain for the past two years. 
= henveiven excellent results. This year yo peak 
seventy bushels per acre and on one ten ee eee ent! 
averaged ninety bushels per acre. It pr pee tnes: 
strong, clean straw. We had no lodging. 
Victorgrain stoo 
1s well which would meke it a good grazing 
oat. Thus far it has been resistant to our heavy 
Helminthosporium infestation. 
GUERNSEY DAIRY CATTLE 
Yours very truly, 
BRAYS ISLAND PLANTATION, INC. 
Cie 
Robert Garland, Farm Manager 
ABERDBBN-ANGUS CATT 
FAs 
POULTRY 
MISSISSIPPI 
STATE OAT VARIETY TEST, 1950-1951 
Delta Experiment Station, Stoneville, Miss. 
Date seeded: Oct. 18, 1950 
Top dressing: Nitrate of soda 
Previous crop: Cowpeas 
ee Ee 
Acre 
VARIETY Yield 
No. rows each plot: 
Date applied: 
March 2, 1951 
No. replications: 6 
Lbse per acre: 200 (32 lbs. N) 
Soil: Sandy loam 
Winter Forage * AVERAGE os 
Survival value Mar, 2 -year 3-ye 
COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE VARIETIES 
bu. pet. pet. bu. bu. 
Alber 81.6 97 a he eae 
slate ee 3 io 16.6 38.5 
pone 79 6 70 ae ae a 
Carolina Red 81.8 96 
97 307 
i TheS 95 112 5 ae 
ave Red 88 85.67 90 a Le pe 
Fulgrain 51 B.S. ae a i peta Ae 
di COe Red . 3 A 5 Zs 
eantte 4 7305 2 a3 68-5 
2 68.2 
Nortex 107 (0112) oe zi et be ay 
Southland é 66. wl VA 6949 ce 
CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOLS 
WESTERN «== 
ah UNIO N “S= 
Se ee eee, 
XQ118 
A.LSO31 COLLECT2LESLIE GA 1 103, M= 
COKERS PEDIGREED SEED COs \ 
HARTSVILLE SOCAR= 4 
J D BONE LESLIE GEORGIA ae 11,000 BUSHELS OF OATS 
ON 110 ACRES FROM BREEDER STOCK 48-93 VICTORGRAIN OATS THIS 
YEAR= 
This is a full-ate 
Telegram or Cable- 
gram unless its de- 
ferred character is in- 
dicated by a suitable 
symbol above or pre- 
ceding the address. 
W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT 
1952 JUL | AM 10 58 
FERGUSON SEED CO= 
CUSTOMER REPORTS AND 
EXPERIMENT STATION TESTS RESULTS 
ON COKER’S VICTORGRAIN 
48-93 OATS 
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA EXPRRIMENT STATION 
St. Joseph, Louisiana 
1950-51 
OAT VARIETY TEST ~ 195} 
COMMERCIAL OAT VARIETY TEST Clemson College Pee Deo Eh terre 
Yield 
Variety Bue Per Acre Florence, 8. C, 
Coker's Victorgrain 8-93 93.2 COMMERC 
D. Hybrid 21,893 92.1 Variety —SSERCTALLY AVAILABLE 
DeSoto Ae Bue Acre 
Coker's 9-9 662 Coker's Victorgrain }8~ 
Ferguson 85.2 Coker's Peters ate i 83.0) 
Aiber (Stoneville, Miss.) Bu 8 Pulgrain St. 7 (Wood) 81.7 
Coker's Fulgrain 1,8-107 84.8 Fulgrain St. 3 (Wood) 80.8 
RRP. 33773 83.8 Arlington 79.9 
Coker's mae shy he 76.0 
Nortex 107 (0112 ol torgrain #51 (Wood 
Delta Red 88 77.0 Coker's Fulgrain ieee) 75.8 
Camellia 72.9 Fulwood (Wood) 69.8 
“La. Alber 71.0 Letoria #359 (Wood) 67.7 
“Coker's Ped. Fulgrain 67.0 Stanton (Wood) 60.4, 
#Hauser Selection 52.3 50.7 
*Bird damage. 
REMARKS: Planted Octe 27, 1950. Two repli- 
cations 6, Evenk 220 Lte Applied 32 lbs. N. 
Feb. 28, 1951. Harvested with a combine. 
Varieties Camellia and La. Alber were planted 
two weeks after the test was planted. 
SPANN BROTHERS 
INTENSIVE METHODS FOR GROWING SELECT SEED 
VARIETIES, OATES. CORN PEAS. AND COTTON 
Dothan, Alabama 
dune 18th 152 
For twenty or ore years we have 
oats and hve always been well 
from their rroducts. 
been planting Soker's 
pleased with our hesullts 
Last year we planted one hundred acres of 
Victorgrain oats. In this plot 18.) acres 
Soy Beans and our yeild from this 
e 7 1s plot was 
or 89.5 bushels to the “te ; 
Joker's 148-93 
followed Odgen 
lo48 bushels 
acre. The balance of the OWE 
plot followed cotton and the Overall yeild was foe oe 
bushels per acre on the entire acreage. ‘Je were very much 
Dele eURusen the way these oats stood durins sone oneal 
ee pee and nuch Wind, All of the oats were cut standing 
itnough at one time we had to pull our combine with two 
tractors in tandem. This prov 
Me fh 3 es to us that 8- 
stands up well for combining, : ig Gee rg eae 
Yours very truly, 
Spa Brothers Farms 
fi pees 
Itta Bena, Mississippi 
| June 2h, 1962 
Coker's Pedigreed Seed 
tertsville, S.C Company 
Centlemen : 
The abilit 
their abi] 
Our plantation, 
48-93 next, year, 
ever Erown on ae aise my mind that this is ¢ 
he 
bushels per acre, Our seed field best oat we've 
S averaged 84 
Sours very strides 
G. W. GR 
EN PLANTATION 
Whe 
Jimmy Green 
lero : 
Coker's Pedi v9 Alabama 
1 t 
Hartsville, ae Seed Company June 9, 1952 
Last year [ 
. bough 
V ' geht tw, 
enon erain 48-93 ie quoted tw 
ventralla Co-op nN a8 carlo 
ab 
Sheis of 
» Selma, A) ad lot tha was ehiopeiae 
Thought 
BS you would li 
did not wei ike to know h 
gh alj ow I came 
Pree days combining the crop but did weiey With the oats, 
Sint? 99 bushels per itch time Weighed 22 Plot on each of 
mate Alabama, oO ie I ha he ene Was gettin Cron 
sae aie sur Bone day and the py, o0%t of Clarke 
bushels or bett © that the entire 70 acres resentative te 
If you woul, MeePnICeston 1952 : 
d lik 22 Regist : 
oats, I woulg oor Jan atenent tron aes Victorgrain 48-93 
lad to get one from pace that weighed a 
or yo 
