Price list [of] Coker's pedigreed seeds. Fall 1918 / Pedigreed Seed Company ; David R. Coker, president.

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PRICE LIST

COKER’S PEDIGREED SEEDS

FALL 1918

This price list briefly describes and quotes Coker’s Pedigreed
Seeds for Fall 1918. It does not give any description of our
Breeding AYork, Experimental Farms or any data on tests we
have conducted. Neither does it explain how we grow our own
seed, carefully harvest it, and with the greatest care keep each va-
riety and crop pure and separate from all other varieties. No at-
tempt has been made to explain how the seed is cleaned and
graded on our large Clipper Seed Cleaners (nine machines being
required) and all light weight, immature seed and trash being
removed ; and how samples are drawn from EATERY BAG and
tested for germination in our two Electric Germinators to prove
their vitality. None of these things can be explained in the limits
of a small price list. Therefore, we urge every farmer who is in-
terested in good seed production and who would like to know just
how these things are done by the largest private field seed breed-
ing organization in the South, to write to us for our Fall Cat-
alogue. The Catalogue describes in detail and illustrates by
photographs and charts our seed breeding method, our breeding
plots, our method of handling seeds and gives some of our ex-
perimental results with rye and oats. It is a fund of informa-
tion for the farmer who is interested in BETTER FARMING.

Tell Us Your Problems

Let us help you solve your farm problems. We do not pre-
tend to know everything about farming and seed breeding — but
we have in the past sixteen years accumulated much information
as the result of our scientific breeding and experimental work,
and it is possible that some of our information may help you
SOLACE YOUR PROBLEMS. This service is FREE— we give
it as OL^R contribution to the upbuilding of Southern Agricul-
ture. AA'rite us when you need help.

About Ordering Seeds

Don’t delay sending in your order for seeds. There are two
reasons. First, if you delay, we may have sold out the seed you
want. AA"e HAA"E sold out every year but one in the last four
years. Late orders are in AIANY cases returned unfilled. Book
your order now for later shipment if you prefer, but at any rate
GET Y’OUR ORDER IN EARLY. A second reason is freight
conditions. Shipments are going through with reasonable
promptness NOAV. Later on shipping conditions may be bad,
and deliveries slow. Therefore order AT ONCE.

Prices on Spring Seeds

Prices on Coker’s Pedigreed Cotton Seed and other SPRING
Seeds will be announced October 1st. This will make it possible
for orders to be booked and shipments to be made long ahead of
the planting season. If you don’t get a Spring Price List by
October 10th, write us.

PEDIGREED SEED COMPANY

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Guaranty

David R.
HARTSVI

Coker’s Pedigreed Seeds are pure ej(t to* peiUacee .by
the plant-to-row method, each strait^ o^f* sbftrf beiitg the-
product of one or a group of tested i^nts, and are true
to name and type. COKER’S I MPFPBTE»»»6€«» are
pure bred by general or mass selection, and are highly
productive and true to name, COKER’S GENERAL
SEEDS (those not otherwise classified as PEDIGREED
or IMPROVED) are not bred by us but otherwise are as
good seed as can be obtained.

Every bag of COKER’S SEEDS carries a card on
which is printed the percentage germination and physi-
cal purity of that bag of seed. In case any lot or bag of COKE.R’S SEED
is not satisfactory to YOU, after you have examined and tested them for
ten days, you may return them to us in the original packages at our ex-
pense and we will refund your money.

New Strain Coker’s Pedi-
greed Abruzzi Rye

The South’s Wonderful Win-
ter Crop for Grain Yield,
Cover Crop and Graz-
ing Purposes.

A New Strain of Abruzzi Rye,
More Productive Than the
Parent Pedigreed Strain.

A new strain of Abruzzi
Rye. A strain of seed more
productive than Coker’s Pedi-
greed Abruzzi. An accurate
four-year test shows an in-
crease yield of this new strain of rye over
the finest stock of Coker’s Pedigreed
Abruzzi of 3.3 bushels per acre. We call
this rye New Strain Coker’s Pedigreed
Abruzzi Rye.

Careful Breeding Produces Results.

Our original breeding work with Abruzzi
Rye by the plant-to-row Pedigree method
gave an increased yield over the original
Government strain of this rye of 25%
and our latest breeding work has now
resulted in an additional increase of
nearly 10% over our own finest stock.

The superiority of this NEW STRAIN
is marked. In comparison with the finest
Abruzzi Rye distributed by us previous-
ly, this NEW STRAIN makes a heavier
yield of a better quality product. This
new strain of Abruzzi is also more rust
resistant than any other strain we have
developed, and while none of our seed of
the old strain has ever shown any great
susceptibility to rust, the new strain is
almost entirely free from it.

For cover crop or grazing purposes,
Abruzzi Rye should be sown from Sep-
tember 15 to October 15 for best re-
sults. Plant in cotton fields after second
picking. For cover crop, sow one bushel
to the acre and for grazing, two bushels
per acre should be used.

For grain or seed production, seed
with a grain drill in November. On good
soils, one-half bushel per acre is suf-
ficient, on light soils three pecks will give
better results. This seeding requires good
RECLEANED AND GRADED SEED. If
ordinary thresher seed is used, allow one-
third more seed.

WRITE FOR FALL CATALOGUE
FULLY ILLUSTRATING AND DE-
SCRIBING THIS NEW STRAIN ABRUZ-
ZI RYE IN DETAIL.

PRICES: NEW STRAIN Coker’s Pedi-
greed Abruzzi Rye, per bu., $3.75; 10
bu. and above, at $3.50; Yz bu., $2.00;
peck, $1.25.

PRIZE WINNING SHEAF

Coker’s Pedigreed Abruzzi
Rye Has Twice Won the
World’s First Prize at
National Expositions.

Coker’s Pedigreed Red
Appier Oats

Most Productive Pure
Bred Oats for the
Southern Farm.

The verdict of hun-
dreds of planters of
Coker’s Pedigreed Red
Appier Oats substan-
tiate fully the claim
we have made ; That
year in and year out,
Coker’s Pedigreed Red
Appier Oats will make
a bigger yield than any
other variety planted
in the South, under
the same conditions.
Accurate reports show
that more than 90 per
cent of the farmers
who plant both Cok-
er’s Pedigreed Red Ap-
pier Oats and any oth-
er variety make from
five to twenty bushels
per acre more from
Coker’s Pedigreed Red
Appier. The above
facts count. They are
not claims, they are
not even tests conducted by us.
but they are actual results ob-
tained by customers all over the
South.

Appier Oats have been planted
in the South for many years with
good results. This variety de-
scended from a few selections
made by a man named Appier
from a field of Texas Rustproof
Oats many years ago and was
named for him. It was more pro-
ductive than its parent and be-
came very popular.

THE ORIGIN OF COKER’S
PEDIGREED RED OATS goes
back to a field of Red Appier
Oats harvested in the spring of
1909, and the beginning of our
breeding work was in the spring
of 1908, when plant selections
were made for our 1909 test
plots. In 1910, two unusually
high yielding strains were pro-
duced in our breeding plots, and
these were later tested and found
to be superior to any oats pro-
duced up to that time.

Since then, we have continued
breeding these strains and have
offered the "progeny of our most
productive pedigreed strain to the
public. During this time, we have
tested over three hundred and fif-
ty selections and strains of these
oats, in our work of breeding and
perfecting the seed we are now
selling as Coker’s Pedigreed Red
Appier Oats. The success of our
customers with these oats has
been so uniformly satisfactory,
and the profits they have made
from planting our highly produc-
tive seed, so substantial, that the
demand has exceeded our supply
of seed every year but one, since
we offered the first bushel for
sale. Many customers buy every
year enough pure, fresh seed from
us to plant their entire crops,
while others buy only enough to
raise a seed crop for their own
seed for another year. This method
we commend to every farmer who
wants the best seed at a very lowcost

PRIZE WINNING SHEAF

Coker’s Pedigreed Red
Appier Oats have twice
won Sweepstakes Prize
over all Southern Oats at
National Expositions.

DON’T

confuse Coker’s Pedigreed Red Appier Oats with the ordinary Appier. They
are as distinctive from the Appier as the Appier is from the Red Rustproof.
Cokers Pedigreed Red Appier Oats are earlier, make a much heavier yield,
are more uniform, and make a better quality grain than the old Appier.
They are smut free. All planting seed is treated with formaldehyde solu-
tion' to kill any spores present. „

PRICES: Coker’s Pedigreed Red Appier Oats, per bu.. $2.50; 20 bu. and
above at $2.40.

Coker’s Improved Fulghum
Oats

We oflfer Coker’s
Improved Strain of
Fulghum Oats. Be-
ginning with pure
seed of the best
strain of Fulghum
Oats we could obtain,
we have by mass se-
lection produced a
pure type and a high-
er yielding strain of
this oat. Made the
highest yield in our
variety test last year
over 22 principal va-
rieties and strains of
Southern Oats. We
believe there is no
strain of these oats
in the South superior
to Coker’s Improved
Strain.

The Fulghum Oat
is admitted by grow-
ers and breeders to
have earned a per-
manent place as a
valuable variety for
the South. Being two weeks
earlier than other varieties, it is
especially valuable to the large
planter in extending his harvest-
ing period. Its earliness also
makes it work in rotation with
corn to better advantage than the
later varieties.

On the average, Fulghum Oats
will not yield so much as Coker’s
Pedigreed Red Appier, though in
some cases, on account of sea-
sonal conditions, Fulghum makes
a heavier yield than any other
variety. We recommend, there-
fore, that about one-third of the
crop should be planted in Ful-
ghum and the balance in Coker’s
Pedigreed Red Appier.

Our seed of this variety is im-
proved by selection, is carefully
recleaned and graded, and guar-
anteed for 95% germination,
99% physical purity and trueness
to name. We are confident that
no better seed of this variety has
yet been produced in the South.

PRICES: Coker’s Improved

Fulghum Oats, per bu., $2.40; 20
bus. and above at $2.30.

SHEAF

Coker’s Improved Ful-
ghum Oats.

SEND FOR CATALOG.

Our complete Fall Catalog —
which we gladly send to any-
body who wants it — fully de-
scribes all the seeds quoted in
this price list, and gives full
information about our exten-
sive breeding work. It ex-
plains just HOW we breed seed
to make them more productive ;
it illustrates by photographs
and drawings some of our fine
pedigreed products ; and it
gives some interesting results
obtained on our experimental
farms. If vou are interested
in ADVANCED agriculture, and
wish to know more about bet-
ter farm methods, write us to
send you this catalog. A postal
card brings it.

PI FAN AND GRADE YOUR SEED.

This fall is a good time to consider buying a|^ed^
i'hen you sit down find that at the outsi^,

ag seed graded on a CtiPP^^Vj^^l^^achine to pav for itself on a TWO-
t will take only one yeai ^hm mach me to^p ^ to the

[ORSE farm fijds are increased ten to twenty-five per

mrse by f-admg f TO MAKE AN INVESTMENT THAT will

AiNT AND M^^ ?^i_t down and

leld a HUNDRED PER CEW iAwiJ describing Coker’s Clipper Seed

SeS and G?aVrr trial, with money re-

unded if unsatisfactory.

Seed Wheat

For several years we have
been testing the principal
varieties of w'heat to de-
termine which varieties gave
most satisfactory results
under Southern conditions.

After a number of tests,
three varieties proved bet-
ter than all others : Leap’s
Prolific, Blue Stem and Red
May. We then obtained the
purest available stocks and
began breeding w'ork with
them. Our first Improved
product is Coker’s Improved
Leap’s Prolific. This strain
of wheat is the product of
individual selected beardless
type heads and all off type
heads have been carefully removed
from the breeding blocks.

All our seed is recleaned and
graded, tested and guaranteed for
germination and purity. As we will
sell only the crops produced from our
own seed, our stocks are therefore
limited and w'e will fill orders as re-
ceived until the supply is exhausted.

VARIETIES.

Coker’s Improved Leap’s Prolific. —

Pure bred by mass selection. One of
the most productive wheat we have
developed or tested. Our yields for
the past two years under conditions
below normal, in large fields, has
been 28 to 30 bushels per acre. This
variety is the most largely planted
one in the Carolinas. A wheat of ex-
cellent milling qualities. Commercial
strains usually contain a large pro-
portion of bearded heads, but our
Improved Strain is almost entirely
free from the bearded type. Seed
pure, recleaned, graded and tested.

Red May. — From the beginning of
our tests, this variety has shown up
w^ell. For the past two years, in our
variety tests, it has stood at the top
in yield. It is also one of the earliest
maturing varieties. We are highly
pleased with the showing of this va-
riety and can recommend it for
Southern farms. Red May is a
beardless type. Limited quantity of
seed. Seed cleaned, graded and
tested for germination.

Blue Stem or Purple Straw. — A

splendid, early, productive beardless
wheat. An old variety which is very
popular throughout the South. Our
seed is the progeny of a Government
Pedigreed Strain and is therefore
pure and of high quality.

PRICES: Seed Wheat, all varie-

ties described above, per bu., $3.50;
10 bus. and above at $3.40; Y2 bu.,
$1.90; peck, $1.05.

OUR BREEDING WORK.

We operate the Pedigreed Seed SHEAF.

Breeding and Experimental Farms Coker’s Improved Leap’s
and devote more than five thousand Prolific Wheat,

acres to seed production. We sell as
Coker’s Pedigreed and Coker’s Im-
proved seed ONLY the seed pro-
duced by our breeding organization.

We guarantee them pure bred, of high germination and back them with a
money back guarantee. All our seed is cleaned, graded and tested for
vitality. These seeds represent the highest perfection of plant breeding
work — the results of sixteen years scientific breeding by our experts.

The few’ cents a bushel extra you pay us for seed is returned to you
many-fold in the purity, productiveness and quality of the seed you get
from us. You can buy cheaper seed from many sources — but better seed
we doubt you can find.

PRICE LIST-FALL 1918

RYE — NEW STRAIN Coker’s Pedigreed Abruzzi. Per bu„ $3.75 ; 10 bus., at
$3.50.

OATS — Coker’s Pedigreed Red Appier. Per bu., $2.50 ; 20 bus., at $2.40.
Coker’s Improved Fulghum. Per bu., $2.40 ; 20 bus., at $2.30.

WHEAT — Coker’s Improved Leap’s Prolific
Red May

Blue Stem (Purple Straw )

All varieties $3.50 per bu. :
10 bu. at $3.40.

ALFALFA — Per pound, 30c; 10 pounds at 29c; 50 pounds and above at 28c.

BURR CLOVER — Per pound, 19c; 10 pounds at 18c; 50 pounds and above
at 17c.

CRIMSON CLOVER — Per pound, 27c; 10 pounds at 26c; 50 pounds and
above at 25c.

BIENNIAL YELLOW SWEET CLOVER— Per pound, 32c; 10 pounds at
31c ; 50 pounds and above at 30c.

DWARF ESSEX RAPE — Per pound, 16c; 10 pounds at 14c; 50 pounds
and above at 13c.

ITALIAN RYE GRASS — Per pound, 17c; 10 pounds at 16c; 50 pounds and
above at 15c.

HAIRY VETCH — Per pound, 24c; 10 pounds at 23c; 50 pounds and above
at 22c.

MULFORD CULTURES — (Nitro-Germ) — Garden size, 50c; one acre size,
$1.50 ; five acre size, $5.00.

Coker’s Special Clipper Seed Cleaners.

Send for Special Catalogue describing these machines.

COKER’S IMPROVED NO. 22-B CLIPPER CLEANER, equipped with 12
screens, crank pulley for hand operation and power pulley for operation
by engine, COMPLETE, net cash, f. o. b. Hartsville
S. C $46.00

COKER’S SPECIAL NO. 2-B CLIPPER CLEANER, equipped with 12

screens and crank pulley and power pulley, net cash, f. o. b.
Hartsville $40.00

COKER’S SPECIAL NO. I-B CLIPPER CLEANER, equipped with 12

screens and crank pulley, f. o. b. Hartsville, net

cash $31.00

ALL COKER’S CLIPPER CLEANERS AND GRADERS GUARANTEED

SATISFACTORY. SEND IN ORDERS PROMPTLY.

Pedigreed Seed Company,

Hartsville, S. C.

David R. Coker, President

United States Food Administration License No. G-53212.

PRICES; All prices net cash with order, subject to change without notice
and subject to unsold stocks. Every year we sell out Coker’s Pedigreed
Seeds and late orders must in many cases be returned unfilled. Place
your orders promptly. We fill practically every order the same day it
reaches us.

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