19 
H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
A TWO OR THREE STORY COTTON 
Hastings’ Upright Cotton, which we introduced last spring, is the 
most distinct in appearance of all upland varieties. 
We say it’s a two- or three-story cotton and that expresses it 
exactly. You have a one-story house of 5 rooms. It covers a cer- 
tain amount of ground and requires a certain size roof to cover it. 
You can put on another story and have 10 rooms and those 10 
rooms won’t require a foot more additional ground to rest on or 
roof to cover than did the 5-room one-story house. 
That’s exactly how Hastings’ Upright Cotton works. With it 
you can grow two to three times as much actual cotton on the same 
land and with the same cultivation as you can with the lower 
growing, branching varieties. Besides that it has many other 
advantages. . ^ 
On the opposite page will be seen a combination illustration of 
“Upright,” the left side of the picture showing this variety in field 
culture, on the right a single plant of “Upright” pulled up from a 
field on the Hastings Farm after the open bolls had stood a week, 
of strong winds and the heaviest beating rains. _ We could have 
fixed this stalk up to make a much better looking picture by putting 
in fresh locks that had not been weatherbeaten, but we wanted 
you to see it exactly as it was. This illustrates its storm-proof 
character perfectly. 
We have been greatly impressed with “Upright” Cotton from the 
start, for it has shown valuable characteristics found in no other 
variety. It was a leader in our trial grounds from the start and 
the 150 acres of it on the Hastings Farm the first year made all the 
neighboring cotton growers, as used as they are to seeing heavy 
yields on our acres “sit up and take notice” (to use a slang phrase) 
and ask what they could get some of that kind of seed for. No 
wonder, for none of it made less than a bale per acre, much of it 
2 bales or over. This was not on any special “brag patch” either 
but covering fully 150 acres of rolling or hillside red clay lands. 
When open, the fields of it were a sight, the lands having a regular 
snowbank appearance. It looked like it was all cotton and it pretty 
nearly was for the “Upright” don’t spend the season making a big 
weed and leaf but gets right down to business, putting its strength 
into prod ucing plenty of lint of the very best grade. 
wTen “Upright” first comes up it makes a tall spindling growth 
which continues until it gets .3 to 4 feet high and with compara- 
tively few very dark green, medium sized leaves. Just about this 
time your neighbors who have been used to the large leaved, large 
branching varieties will come around and advise you to plow it up 
for “it ain’t going to make no cotton.” Just at that period it does 
look rather discouraging but it soon starts to throw out the short 
fruiting limbs such as you see in the illustration and before you 
know it your plants are loaded and bending over with 20, 30, 40, 
50 or even up to 100 big bolls that appear to have grown overnight 
almost. We have never seen a big boll cotton fruit so quickly and 
we have seen about all of them. 
Resists Disease, Boii Weevii and Storms 
A careful study of our cotton records shows that “Hastings' Up- 
right Cotton” was the most resistant to cotton plant diseases of any 
variety that we grew last year. It is a most healthy variety, noth- 
ing seeming to have any serious effect on it. As a resister of storms 
it is -Unexcelled and we know that our Texas friends will be more 
than satisfied with it in that respect. We have had some pretty 
heavy wind storms in the last three years and we have to see one 
yet that has blown it out. At the same time it’s an easy cotton to 
pick, some splendid pickers’ records having been made in our fields 
of it. You can’t be troubled with boll-rot in “Hastings’ Upright.” 
No fruit touches the ground or is in shade. It don’t naake leaves so 
that there is much shade and the sun always gets in to all parts 
of the plant almost all day. For that reason, boll weevils won’t 
stay around it in any numbers. The boll weevil is a shade bug and 
the “Upright” makes mighty little shade. A Texas cotton expert 
visiting the Hastings Farm last summer was especially struck with 
that feature, saying “boll weevils could hardly live in a field of 
that variety. Even if they could it puts on bolls so fast that the 
weevils couldn’t keep up with it.” It is a genuine 4 and 5 lock big- 
boll variety of the best quality of unland staple. In our tests of 
strength of the lint it was the strongest of all. It is a sure cropper 
and a heavy one, a deep rooter and resists drought splendidly. It is 
the healthiest and a most generally satisfactory cotton for you to 
plant. It opens perfectly and early, being only a week to ten days 
later than King’s Extra Early. 
Fine For Either Upland or Bottom 
In Atlanta and other large cities where land is expensive 15 ^ 30 
story buildings are put up for .renting. The owner of these high 
p^riced city lots must go “up in the air” to get profits out of rents. 
This led to the building of what are known as “sky scraper’ 15 to 
30-story buildings. “Hastings’ Upright” is somewhat that kind of a 
cotton. It grows 5 to 6 feet tall and don’t spread out much. You 
make your crop in the air instead of on or near the ground. 
We grow “Hastings’ Upright” on both upland and bottom. It’s 
well adapted to both. You should fertilize well on the uplands, for 
a 2 bale per acre variety needs to be fed better than a half to 1 bale 
kind. We would have made considerable more cotton by planting 
closer. On upland our Upright can be planted in 3 to 3% foot rows 
and a plant left every 12 to 14 inches in the row; in bottoms make 
rows 4 to 4^7^ feet apart and a plant every 15 to 18 inches. The gen- 
eral absence of wide spreading base branches makes it safe to do 
this and it’s the only variety we know of that will stand close plant- 
ing. The crop is almost all made up along the main stem where the 
sun gets into it all day. We have in the past made the mistake of 
not close enough planting. Cultivation can be kept up as long as 
you please without fear of breaking off base limbs or branches. 
Some of the plants of the “Upright” throw out a single base limb 
but instead of spreading low, it turns and grows upright similar to 
the main stem, these upright base limbs alone usually producing at 
rate of % to 1 bale per acre. The “Upright” is a cotton that "will 
aUyays make good at picking time and at the gin. It comes nearer 
being “all cotton” than any variety we know of. Be sure and give 
it close planting and you will never be disappointed in your yield 
per acre. 
What Planters 
When we introduced “Upright” a year ago we made exactly the 
same statements in our catalogue about it as we do this year. They 
were and are exactly truthful statements based on our own farm 
experience. We want you to note how very closely the experience 
of these growers tallies with what we said about it. Remember also 
that it has not been a good cotton year in most of the South. 
f Avae David Greer. Harrison Co., writes us: “Upright Cotton 
■ is certainly the most productive I have ever seen for the 
chance it had. Because of continuous wet weather I did not get it 
planted until May 20th. Planted on newly cleared land, plowed flat 
or broadcast and harrowed thoroughly. Picked 3 bales off 3% acres. 
Cotton worms came on 1st of September and by the 5th they had 
eaten everything not too hard. Expect to plant my entire crop in 
‘Upright’ next year.” — Jas. F. Gray, Jr., Robertson Co. : “Planted 
Upright but did not get any rain to do any .good after June 19th 
and only a shower then. I will get about 1,000 pounds off a little 
more than an acre. I like it fine.” 
of Upright Say 
TayaC Corbett, Shelby Co.: “Upright is all right. Made 
■ 950 per acre where other cotton only made 350.” J. H. 
Blair, Chambers Co. : “Upright is best for this country. No trouble 
to get pickers for it. One stalk had 89 bolls filled out, 15 green bolls 
and top still blooming. The picker’s attention being called to it, 
said : ‘There is plenty more like it in this. Best cotton for this 
country ever seen.’ ” 
J- P- McKinney. Haskell Co. : “ ‘Upright Cotton’ 
has astounded this whole community. It stood 3 
feet high without a bloom then, like magic it filled almost in a 
night. Quickest cotton from bloom to well filled boll I ever saw or 
heard of ; the only cotton that takes care of its fruit. Fruit is high 
enough, to prevent rot, the foliage so light that insects have no 
hiding place.” 
J. G. Talbert, Dougherty Co. (South Georgia) : 
gld “From % of an acre I have picked 700 and I will get 
at least 700 more when I pick again. Expect to plant it another 
year.”— J. S. Allred, Pickens Co. (North Georgia) : “Upright Cotton 
seed bought of you last spring beats anything I ever saw. I think 
it is the cotton we need for Georgia.” 
Prices 
Pound, postpaid, 50 cents; 2H pounds postpaid, $1.00. Peck not prepaid, 75 
cents; Bushel (30 pounds Georgia legal weight), $2.00; 100 pounds $6.00. Freight 
rate to Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma points, $1.08 per 100 pounds. 
