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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Athnta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS' PROLIFIC CORN 
Immensely Prolific, Finest in Quality 
Wonderful Producer of Grain and 
Forage — The Prize-Winning 
Corn of the South 
Many parts of the cotton States are in a mighty serious financial condition now. Why? Same 
^ growing in tfie Soutn. Betore tue war tne soutn Qian t buy 
Northern or Western corn and there is no need for buying it now. • 
• The result of the Boys’ Corn Club work and the United States Farm Demonstration work in 
the South during the past four years ought to open the eyes of the blindest “all cotton’’ grower. 
Most of these old cotton growers who keep their corn cribs up in Kansas or Iowa will say : “I 
can’t afford to grow corn.’’ How about that? We have watched these boys’ reports pretty close 
(they have to keep account of the cost) and including a charge of $5.00 for the rent of an acre of 
ground, we don’t remember seeing any report of a cost over 42 cents per bushel, ranging from 
that down to 10 cents per bushel. 
Take 42 cents, the highest cost on the list. Have any of you “all cotton’’ growers around in the 
Southeastern States been getting any 42 cent corn from your supply merchant? Have you not 
been paying at least 85 cents and oftener from $1.00 to $1.25? These prices are facts, that have to 
• be faced when you “settle up.’’ Is it any wonder you have mighty little left after paying your 
debts, those debts being largely made for corn and corn products such as meal and meat. Has 
any “all cotton’’ grower got the nerve to stand up and say that he is making 100% profit on 12 
to 15 cent cotton? Let’s get right down to “hard-pan” in this corn business. Many of you may 
have read about the thousands of automobiles owned by these Iowa and Kansas corn growing 
farmers. It’s a fact that 
Corn - Growing Farmers Ride in Automobiles at the 
Cotton Grower’s Expense 
It was the cotton grower’s money spent for corn and meat that paid for those automobiles and 
you are helping pay for the gasoline to kee them running every time you buy a bushel of corn or 
meal or a pound of meat that was made up in that country. How many of you ride around in an 
automobile? Not many. You haven’t time; most of you are too busy sweating all summer in your 
cotton patch making a half bale of cotton per acre or less. What do you grow that cotton for? 
Just to send most of it along to pay for the corn and meai and meat that you have been buying. 
Elegant situation, isn’t it? And what s a wTiole lot worse is that it’s so unnecessary, for if the 
Lord ever made a natural country for corn, it’s' the South. 
There isn’t any mourner’s bench at this proposed corn growing revival but there is a corn bench 
that it’s time for every corn buying farmer to come up to, repent of his evil ways and start to 
travel the road of real farm prosperity that has the cotton field on one side (bale per acre or 
better) and the heavy laden fields of 40 bushels or more per acre corn on the other. That’s a 
practical, useful farm religion, so to spe^k, that needs reviving on hundreds of thousands of 
Southern farms. 
We want, in all seriousness, to make the most earnest personal appeal to every one to whom 
this catalogue goes to grow enough corn in 1913. You ought to be tired of paying that Kansas 
corn-growing farmer’s gasoline bill and you are helping do it every time you buy a bushel of 
Western corn or a pound of their meat. 
Down on the Hastings Farm, under our general field conditions of culture, and they are noth- 
ing more than any intelligent, careful farmer can and should give, the corn turns out 60 to 75 
bushels per acre; the cotton 1 to 2 bales per acre; the oats 40 to 100 bushels according to the soil; 
the sorghuni and cowpea hay ll^ to 21^ tons per acre, following the oats, etc. The Hastings Farm 
of over 3.000 acres don’t spend a dollar for hay or grain, can’t afford to, and we know mighty 
well that you can’t unless you have no higher ambition in life than to pay the lowa-Kansas 
farmer’s gasoline bill. 
The Corn that Fills the Southern Crib 
is Hastings’ Prolific. It is always a prize winner at the corn-crib of every man that plants it any- 
where in the South. Planters of “Hastings' Prolific” always have cribs full of good, sound corn, 
and never have occasion to say that “growing corn don’t pay.” 
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana are all pretty good corn States, but depend largely 
on home grown seed or else seed brought in from farther North. Texas Farm and Kanch, the 
great agricultural paper of Texas, held a great $1,000 Corn-Growing Contest for those 4 States. 
“Hastings' Prolific” in the hands of Mr. J. G. Henderson, of Hopkins County, Texas, was the 
prize winner for heaviest yield, his crop turning out 130 bushels and 33 pounds on 1 acre. While 
this was going on. Mr. Wm. Brooks, of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, made II 814 bushels per acre 
in a Farmers’ Union County Contest with “Hastings’ Prolific.” , , . , ^ ^ , 
Florida isn’t considered much of a corn-growing State, but in the combined Washington-Jack- 
son County Coutest “Hastings' Prolific” was winner of both 1st and 2nd prizes, Mr. W. D. Owens, 
of Washington County, making 92 bushels per acre, and Mr. Angus Nelson making 71 bushels. 
The nearest competitor to “Hastings’ Prolific” showed 59^4 bushels per acre in this Florida Con- 
test. From the Carolines to Texas, “Hastings’ Prolific” always “makes good” to the fullest extent 
on all kinds of soils. ... j.,. -u i 
It’s just the right corn for planting everywhere in the South, no matter whether you are in prize 
contests or just after making plenty of corn. “Hastings’ Prolific” makes good paying crops 
where other varieties fail. It’s the safest variety of corn there is to plant in the South. This is 
specially true of uplands. You can get 25 to 50 per cent more grain and forage than from any 
bl£r*6fl.r6rt vflricty 
Hastings’ Prolific Corn is a wonder in production of both grain and forage. It is the most 
prolific corn we have ever seen, the yield of grain and forage being enormous. It makes more 
ears and better ears, with longer, deeper grains. Hastings^’ Prolific averages 16 to 18 rows. It has 
deep grains very closely set on a very small white cob. Sixty-five pounds of corn in the ear 
shells out one bushel. Grains rather flinty and a good keeper. Medium early, maturing in from 
100 to 110 days. Makes splendid “roasting ears,” the size of ears bein^ good, and in flavor 
almost equal' to that superb variety of Sweet Corn “Country Gentleman.” It is the best all- 
purpose corn that can be grown in the South. It pays .as a field crop; it pays the market garden- 
er; it pays in the home garden. It roots deeply, resisting drought and storms. It is adapted to 
both upland and lowland. It pays. 
