H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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OUR FLORIDA 
FLINT CORN 
Natural Size of the Ears Taken 
From One of Our Georgia 
Grown Seed Crops 
The practically weevil-proof corn has arrived. It’s 
our Florida Flint, a small quantity of which was 
sent to us by one of our Bradford County, Florida, 
friends some 6 or 7 years ago. We were much struck 
with its appearance in size of grain and hardness, 
and grew it in our trial grounds here in Georgia. It 
grew off nicely, resisted drought well and made a 
remarkably good yield for a corn of its class. 
We grew it a second and third year before offering 
it, this being in line with our general policy of prov- 
ing the value of a variety before offering it for sale. 
The illustration on this page from a photograph of 
an ear from our seed crops shows the natural size of 
the ears. While it has all the appearance of a pure 
dent corn it is nearly as hard as ^‘pop corn.” 
Weevil Goes to Neighbors 
B. F. Hodges, Houston County, Texas, writes : 
“Florida Flint is a fine corn and best of all, Mr. 
Weevil has to go to the next neighbor. I grew 30 
bushels per acre without fertilizer. I carried some to 
mill and it makes the best meal going.” 
P. D. Howe, Baldwin County, Ala., says: “Florida 
Flint is marvelously hard and is just what is needed 
here on the coast where weevil is bad.” 
C. B. Brown, Hillsboro County, Florida, writes: 
“Bud worms were bad this year but Florida Flint 
seemed to resist them better than other varieties.” 
J. C. Calhoun, Orange County, Florida, says: “Like 
Florida Flint fine. It is a good corn for this country 
as the weevil can’t eat it like other kinds.” 
We don’t feel like saying that any corn is absolutely 
“weevil-proof,” but if a weevil don’t come mighty 
near breaking his teeth when he tackles our Florida 
Flint” we miss our guess. Without any exception the 
“Florida Flint” is the hardest, large grained corn we 
have ever seen. It resists drought splendidly, makes 
a good heavy stalk with plenty of leaves far forage, 
makes one to two ears per stalk and each ear is tight- 
ly covered with a heavy protecting husk that covers 
it completely and closes closely over the end of the 
ear. With us it makes 35 to 50 bushels per acre, 
according to soil. We would not recommend it for an 
all-purpose or whole crop corn, but for something to 
last, with little or no weevil damage from one year’s 
end to the other, it has no equal. Our suggestion 
would be to plant from, half to two-thirds of the 
crop with Hastings* Prolific, or if large-eared corn 
is preferred. Rockdale, and the balance in Florida 
Flint, keeping this over for summer feeding. If you 
want a hard corn to resist weevil attacks, plant some 
of your crop in our Florida Flint. You need not be 
afraid to plant it in other States because it is called. 
“Florida Flint.” We grow it here in Georgia and we 
have no difficulty in growing satisfactory crops of it. 
While not as prolific or as heavy bearer as some of 
our other varieties, its hardness and resistance to 
weevil attacks ought to give it a place on every farm 
in the lower South. ■ 
Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 15 cents; 
pint, 25 cents; quart, 40 cents; post- 
paid. Not prepaid, peck, 85 cents; bushel, $3.00. 
Mexican June Corn^fer dfs! 
rve, etc., are cut off. Practically a drought-proof corn, 
if you can get enough moisture to give germination. 
For corn, plant in June. For heavy yield of forage, 
plant in May. Stalks- 10 to 15 feet high, leaves 4 to 6 
feet long. Seed supply from Mexico very limited. 
Packet, 10 cents; pint, 20 cents; quart, 35 cents; post- 
paid. Peck, not prepaid, 75 cents; bushel, $2.75. 
Improved Golden Dent—Georgia 
Grown, See Next Page 
CORN INSURANCE 
Why not? The greatest farm burden of the 
■South is the money paid out for corn and corn 
products. The use of seed corn from Hastings, 
all of it Southern grown, insures you profitable 
crops of corn so far as they can be insured by 
right seed of right varieties. 
