H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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CHUFAS OR EARTH ALMONDS 
It’s amazing how very few people in the South actually know 
how valuable Chufas are as a crop to plant for fattening hogs. 
With the increasing interest in hogs in the South we expect to 
see tens of thousands of acres of Chufas planted each year. We 
have known experienced hog raisers to pay as high as $20.00 
E er bushel for Chufa seed in seasons of great scarcity, so as to 
e sure and have a Chufa patch to turn their hogs in during 
the fall mouths. They knew the real value of Chufas as a hog 
fattening crop. 
The Chufa is a species of ground nut, most easily grown, 
and which ought to be on every Southern farm every year as a 
hog-fattening crop. Can be planted from April to June, cultiva- 
tion to be similar to that for peanuts. The crop is usually 
matured by September 1st, and can be left in the ground until 
time to turn the hogs in, the hogs doing the harvesting. 
This crop is highly recommended by the Experiment Stations 
of Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana. We know of no 
crop that will produce as heavy crops in proportion to the 
quality of land as Chufas, some reports of yield being almost 
incredible, ranging from 200 to 1,000 bushels per acre. Any land 
suitable for cotton, corn, potatoes or peanuts will make profit- 
able crops of Chufas. 
At the Arkansas Experiment Station one-third of an acre of 
Chufas supported 3 hogs, averaging 122 pounds each, for 40 
days. The gain during the 46 days averaged 66 pounds per hog. 
In this test Chufas proved practically as good as dry corn for 
fattening purposes. In the Alabama Station test the yield of 
Chufas was 172 bushels per acre. Chickens and turkeys as well 
as hogs are very fond of them. 
Make rows 21^ feet apart, dropping seed about one foot apart 
in the row and covering about two inches. Chufas require from 
one to one and a half pecks per acre. 
Our stock of seed Chufas is exceptionally fine, the nuts or 
tubers being clean, sound and thoroughly dry, AVe advise early 
orders, for almost every year we have to refuse late in the sea- 
son orders. Packet, 10 cents; pound, 35 cents, postpaid; peck 
(11 pounds), not prepaid, .$1.25; bushel (44 pounds), $4.50. 
Plant 
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Fall Chufas or Earth Almonds, the Great Southern Hog-Fattening Crop 
JAPANESE SOY OR SOJA BEANS 
Matured Soja Beans on the Hastings’ Farm 
show a plant of Soja or Soy Beans 
in full leaf — on the left a photo- 
graph taken on the Hastings’ 
Farms when the seed beans were 
about ready for harvest, showing 
the immense prolifieness of this 
new forage and feeding crop for 
the South. They grow splendidly 
anywhere in the South ; are equal 
to if not superior to the cow pea 
as a soil improver; when sown in 
rows and cultivated makes heavier 
yield per acre and are superior to 
the cowpea in feeding value for 
stock. AA"e expect that within a 
few years Soja Beans will be as 
generally planted as cowpeas 
throughout the South. AVe expect 
to plant them very largely our- 
selves each year both for soil im- 
provement and stock feed. They 
are most nutritious and contain 
more fattening qualities than any 
other crop. 
Can be sown either broadcast 
like peas at rate of 1 to 1^^ bushels 
per acre or in drills 3% to 4 feet 
apart, using bushel per acre. 
MAMMOTH YELLOW There are 
SOJA BEANS many vari- 
eties of the Soja Bean, but the 
Mammoth Yellow is the best, the 
strongest grower and heaviest 
yielder in the South. Pkt., 10 cts., 
pt., 20 cts.; qt., 35 cts., postpaid. 
Peck, 16 cents ; bushel, about $2.50. 
side of this page we 
Soja Beans in Full Leaf 
