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//. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
YOUR MERCHANT WILL BUY ONIONS 
Georgia sends $o00, 000.00 or more north every year for onions. The purchases of onions by other Southern States runs the South’s onion 1 
bill up into the millions. TVTiy don’t you do your share towards keeping these onion dollars at home? i 
Most of us grow a few onions, but hardly enough for family use. There is hardly a month in the year that the country and small town i 
merchant isn t buying Northern onions to supply his trade. Why? Because he can’t buy them of you and thousands of others who neg- 
lect this most profitable crop. Southwest Texas grows oyer two million dollars’ ivorth of Bermuda Onions every year and most of these 
are shipped to ^Nortliern States in the spring:. Other varieties are more suitable for our spring: planting:, such as Prizetaker, the Globe j 
varieties, Australian Brown, etc. Now as to crop values. It is very seldom that onions sell for less than §>1,00 per bushel in the South; in i 
^ rightly grown crop the yield runs from SOO to 600 bushels per acre. Plant onions in 1913; plant plenty for home use and then some to 
sell in town to your merchant. . I 
STING’S 
CULTURE 
For family use onion seed or sets 
_ should be planted in any good gar- 
den soil just a^ early as the ground can be worked to ad- 
vantage in the spring. Ground should be thoroughly bro- 
ken, well fertilized or manured and then worked down very 
fine, all trash, clods or grass roots being, removed. The use 
of sets is absolutely unnecessary except as a matter of ear- 
liness. Where w^ell shaped, long keeping, marketable onions 
are desired plant the seed instead of sets as the seed makes 
much better onions in every respect. 
Seed should be aown at the rate of 1 ounce to 200 feet of 
row ; 4 or 5 pounds per acre. Sets vary considerably in size 
but the average will run about 1 pound of sets to. 100 feet 
of row. Onions from the black seed wall mature full grown 
bulbs in 130 to 150 days according to the variety; from sets 
in from 100 to 120 days. 
Cover seed in bur clay or heavy soils about % inch ; in 
sandy soils cover 1 inch. If weather and soil is dry firm the 
soil after planting ; heavy or clay soils should not be firm- 
ed when wet. As soon as seed is well up begin a light sur- 
face cultivation and keep this up every w^eek or ten days. 
Never let grass- and w'eeds 'get the start of you for young 
onion plants choked with w^eeds or grass, die dow n in the 
“set” stage and will have to be held over until the follow- 
ing fall. Cultivation (alw^ays shallow) should, be kept un 
until the bulbs are w’ell formed and matured as indicated 
by the dying down or dropping over of the top. When ma- 
tured di.g or plow^ up and store in a dry place, leaving the 
top on until you are ready to use or market them. 
Special Onion Pamphlet ”tS" iroSioo 
growing as a market crop, one of the most valuable and 
profitable w^hich you can plant anywhere in the South, send 
for our special pamphlet on Onion Culture, It gives in de- 
tail the methods of many of the yery best growers of the 
South and is free if you ask for it. - - 
Hastings’ Prizetaker Onion StL onS; 
is of the very best American growth, far superior to all im- 
ported seed and ’w'ay ahead of the Prizetaker onion as of- 
fered by other American houses. It has been most success- 
fully grown in all parts of the Central South from both 
spring and fall sowdngs. The illustration on this page, re- 
produced from a photograph, shows the shape of this vari- 
ety perfectly. It is very large, frequently measuring 12 to 
18 inches in circumference and fine bulbs have been raised 
w’eighing'from 4% to d-pounds each. During the last tw-o 
years we have seen some splendid market crops of Prize- 
takers raised even under verv unfavorable conditions, Mrs, 
W. P. Jarrett, of White Plains, Georgia, and Jas.. Croft, of 
Thomasville, Georgia, being especially- sucqessful w-ith this 
American Grown PriretaLer Onion Direct Prom Seed ^g^TrT-Co'n': 
l^ennsylvania. Ohio and California — and he has never seen anv Prizetaker onion superior to the samples which were shipped us 
II crops of j\Irs. Jarrett and Mr. Croft and both of these parties have found that onions as a commercial crop are most profit- 
able. Prizetaker is a light straw-colored onion with pure white flesh, very flue grain and with rather mild flavor and w'hen handled, prop- 
erly will keep for any reasonable length of time, until they can be marketed. Packet, 6 cents; ounce, 20 cents; % pound, 60 cents; pound,, 
5*3.00; postpaid. 
BERMUDA ONION SEED FOR SPRING PLANTING 
The great commercial crops of the Bermuda Onion in Texas, Florida and California are grown from seed planted in the fall. This 
fall planting is generally desirable in the lower South and Gulf Coast sections where the temperature does not drop below, 15 degrees 
above zero in the winter. In the Central South and even further north the Bermuda varieties make a superb eaWy onion lor spring 
plantings and if you like mild flavored onions you can’t afford to not have at least a few Bermudas in your garden. W® *‘®®“ 
ommend them as a long keeping onion like Prizetaker and Australian Brown but for an onion to come in ahead of tW others the 
Bermudas cannot be excelled. Plant a few- this spring. Crystal Wax Bermuda we are sold out of entirely and will have no more un- 
til next August or September. We have a limited supply of the White or Yellow Bermuda and a good supply of Bermuda Red. 
BfiVIVIIJCia ^ superb pale red. very mild, extra early 
onion, fully adapted to spring plantings 
for an extra early. Bermuda onions have an exceedingly mild 
flavor found in no other onion and can easily be eaten raw like 
an apple. If handled carefully at harvest time they will keep for 
two or three months if stored in a dry place. Packet, 10 cents; 
V 2 , ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 70 cents; pound, 
$2.50; postpaid. 
Bermuda White, or Yellowiid“'onr““ wbiil 
usually called white it Is really -a light straw color, ^ This variety 
is the principal one shipped from Texas during fhe_ spring 
months. Rather flat shape, growing 3 to 4 inches in diameter, 
very mild and sweet. This is identical with the Bermuda Red ex- 
cept in color. Both of them fine for family gardens.. Packet, 10 
cents; Yz ounce, 20 cents; ounce, 30 cents pound, $1.00. 
RERMEJDA ONIONS FOR FA 1^1 OFI ll/FRY The larger Bermuda Onion growers place orders nearly one 
yp^r ahead for their seed. We have already booked ahead 
thousands of pounds for August-September, 1913, delivery. If you wish to plant Bermuda Onion Seed in 5 pound Jots or over next fall 
we advise placing order immediately. No money need be paid nntil seed is ready for delivery, at which time we will notify you. Has- 
tings’ Bermuda Onion Seed is the standard of quality. 
