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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS' SURE CROP 
The Money-Making Cotton for the Planter 
Three Bolls From Our HASTINGS’ Sure Crop Cotton. 
About One-Half Natural Size 
A Sure and Dependable Money-Maker 
We have talked about Hastings’ Sure Crop as being a money- 
making cotton for the planter for many years. It’s one of the 
varieties that gets the largest acreage on the Hastings* Farm. 
Please do not confuse this variety with a small-boiled variety sold 
under the name of “Money Maker.” Hastings’ Sure Crop is a true 
big boll cotton, the open bolls shown above from a photograph be- 
ing just about one-half natural size. It’s a real, first-class, depend- 
able cotton, one that you can always depend on to put money in 
the bank from. Big bolls and the plants full of them. 
For eleven years we have grown and watched Sure Crop, and 
every year we grow it we like it just as well, and our cotton seed 
buying friends think just the same as we do about it. 
Sure Crop is a big-bolled cotton, four and five locks (mostly five). 
It’s easy to get varieties of cotton that make good crops under 
favorable conditions, but what you want is a cotton that makes 
good crops in unfavorable seasons. Sure Crop is such a variety. 
Sure Crop is a big-bolled four and five-lock cotton. It has been 
bred up to stand either very dry or very wet seasons and it does it. 
It fruits heavily and from the ground up; begins opening almost 
as early as King’s and bears heavily throughout the entire season. 
It stands severe windstorms without losing the lint, at the same 
time it is easy to pick. It will make 35 to 38 per cent. lint. Sure 
Crop is well worthy to stand beside our other great varieties — 
Mortgage-Lifter Bank Account and Upright. Sure Crop was origi- 
nated by a grower well up in the cotton-growing section. Starting 
with high-grade, big-boll cotton, he crossed it with other varieties, 
giving it greater hardiness, earliness, and heavy bearing qualities. 
Remember, Sure Crop, as well as our other great varieties, are all 
grown in the red hill section of Georgia. Cotton seed grown up in 
this section has a vigor that has no equal in any seed grown else- 
where in the cotton States. It possesses heavy bearing qualities 
and a freedom from disease that is not found in any seed grown 
elsewhere. If you doubt this plant some seed of Sure Crop side bv 
side with the common cotton you have been planting and see the 
difference. You will find out, as some of our customers write us, 
that “the improved seed would be cheap at $5.00 per bushel.” 
In a cotton growing contest carried on by us several years ago 
Mr. Eugene Burton, of Lee County. Alabama, grew 1,793 pounds of 
seed cotton from 1 pound of Sure Crop planted. L. Y. & J. T. Mont- 
gomery, the largest cotton factors of Yazoo City. Miss., were so 
pleased with Sure Crop after first planting it that they placed an 
order with us for 4,000 pounds of seed. The lint of Sure Crop is 
especially long, soft and silky, and in markets where cotton is ac- 
tually graded will bring a premium over most varieties ; sometimes 
as high as $6.00 per bale. 
The stock of seed of Sure Crop we have each season is all grown 
on the Hastings Farm, ginned in our own gin and stored by itself 
in one seed house. We have never had finer seed of this varietv 
than we have this year, the crop being picked almost without rain 
on it. Seed are, large and plump and have not been heated. 
If you plant Sure Crop Cotton you are sure of a crop in spite of 
drought and unfavorable weather conditions. If you plow your land 
deep and use reasonable amounts of fertilizer you are sii re of a big 
crop with this variety. We have been with this variety eleven years, 
know it like a book, have praised it highly in the past and have 
not a word to take back. Further, we plant it very largely on the 
Hastings Farms for a paying crop, which shows our personal 
opinion of it. 
A SURE SURE CROPPER 
N. Elender, Calcasieu Parish, La., writes: “‘My brother will get 3,800 pounds of s#ed cot- 
ton from one bushel of Sure Crop planted. It surely is a ‘Sure Crop.’ ” 
