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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS' MAINE GROWN SEED POTATOES 
Hardiest, Most Vigorous and Productive of Ail Seed Potatoes For the South 
Bliss’ Red Triumph, the Profitable Potato 
BLISS’ RED TRIUMPH valuable po- 
IFlIUmrn tato for the south. We 
sell five times as many Triumphs as all the others combined. It’s 
adapted to all parts of the South, from Kentucky to Florida, from 
the Carolinas to Arizona. It’s an extra early and with our pure 
Maine-grown seed stock, it’s the surest producer of any, while its 
handsome appearance when first dug makes it a ready seller at top 
prices on any market. It withstands heat and drought to a won- 
derful degree and makes a good crop when other varieties burn up 
and make nothing. Amines are smaller than other varieties, the 
strength of the plant going into making potatoes rather than into 
the vine. This is the right potato for you to plant if you want an 
extra early and sure cropping potato of the very best quality. It 
will give you entire satisfaction. Peck, 60 cents; bushel, $2.00. Bar- 
rel prices of potatoes change, usually advancing later in the season. 
Present prices (January and February shipment), per barrel, about 
$4.25. Write for market prices. 
Brich have been growing Irish Cobbler and 
** like it. In shape it’s much like Tri- 
umph ; color of skin a creamy white, slightly netted with lighter 
color. Cooks quickly, is almost pure white, mealy, but not too dry. 
A good shipper and good keeper for home use and nearby market. 
Peck, 60 cents; bushel, $2.00; full size barrel, 165 pounds of pota- 
toes, January and February shipment, $4.00. 
Killing Potato Bugs 
for description and prices. 
Hastings’ Improved Early Rose 
old-time Early Rose. Peck, 60 cents; bushel, $2.00; per barrel, Jan- 
uary and February, about $4.25. 
We sell none but best Maine grown seed potatoes in full size 
barrels containing 165 pounds (11 pecks). They are honest pota- 
toes in honest size barrels. We don’t ship barrel lots in sacks. 
During the months of January, February and March every bar- 
rel is carefully lined with paper to prevent freezing. Every care 
is taken so that your seed potatoes will reach you in first-class 
condition. Now there is nothing unusual about this; it’s just 
the HASTINGS way of doing everything in connection with the 
seed business. 
Now just a few words about this whole seed potato business. 
There is a whole lot of humbug about it. The bulk of the so- 
called seed potatoes is distributed through produce dealers to 
merchants and usually at a comparatively low price. Hardly 
one barrel or sack of potatoes in a thousand that is sold in the 
South has had the care in growing that seed potatoes ought to 
have, and it is no wonder that so many of the yields. in the 
South are small. 
No less an authority than the Director of the Maine Experi- 
ment Station, in an address before the American Seed Trade As- 
sociation, made- the plain statement that very few. potatoes ship- 
" ped from Maine had anything more than ordinary farm handling 
in growing the crop and that little effort had been made to keep 
potatoes up to the standard that seed potatoes should have. 
Don’t think that because a potato comes from Maine it’s all 
right. There are so-called seed potatoes, coming out of Maine 
every year that we would not accept as a gift if we had to sell 
-r them under our own name. ' ... 
It is our constant effort to furnish you the very best that 
Maine produces in seed potatoes in full-sized barrels. We do not 
sell the usual lOrpeck, 150 pounds to the barrel or sack, that is 
commonly on the market, a dishonest short measure, cut-price 
barrel or sack. If you buy from us you get full measure »nd 
right quality. 
Irish Cobbler Potato, a White Skinned Potato 
Beauty of Hebron, Burbank, Peerless 
anri Whita Trilimnh These varieties carried in stock 
dliu wniie I riuan|jn during planting season. Peck, 
60 cents; bushel, $2.00; per barrel, January and February ship- 
ment, about $4.00. 
Write for Potato Prices 
It is impossible to make exact 
prices on potatoes to hold during 
the entire season, as the prices 
change almost daily. When ready 
to buy (barrel lots or over) write 
us just what you want in variety 
and number of barrels. Quality 
and prices will be right. 
“AN EXTRA HAND ON YOUR FARM” 
Do yoju w.ant one? One of our customers after reading the Southern Ruralist 
for a year wrote us that it was.worth “an extra hand on his" farm.” Through it 
he had been able to learn how other farmers were doing things with less labor 
and expense ^han he had and doing it better. The Ruralist costs you through 
us 25 cents per year, just half price, with your money back at the end of three 
months if you are not satisfied. See pages 22-23. Just enclose 25 cents with 
your seed order for the Ruralist for one year. 
