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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
ITS NOT AN “ALL-COTTON" FARM 
You miglit think from our prominence as breeders of cotton and 
sellers of cotton seed that the Hastings Farm is an “all cotton” 
farm, or nearly so. 
It’s not an all-cotton farm and never will be. "Why? Because we 
can’t afford to run an “all cotton” or any other kind of a single 
crop farm. 
We said, on the previous page, that the Hastings Farm was a 
business farm, run to make money. Following that out we grow all 
the grain, hay, forage, etc., necessary to run the farm and have a 
surplus to sell at a good profit. 
We can’t afford to buy Northern grown corn at- 85 cents to $1.00 
per bushel so long as we can grow it at a cost of 25 cents or 30 
I cents per bushel. We can’t afford to pay the market price for oats 
! when we can grow them at a cost not exceeding 35 or 40 per cent of 
the market price. We can’t afford to pay $18.00 to $20.00 per ton for 
hay when we can make it for $6.00 or $7.00 per ton. All of these 
crops pay a higher percentage of profit than cotton, yet our best 
customers for grain and hay are the “all cotton” farmers in our 
own county. Within the last year we have sold carload after car- 
I load of pea-vine and sorghum hay for $22.00 to $25.00 per ton while 
shredded corn fodder brought us in $18.00 to $19.00 per ton. 
These are what might be termed “cash reasons,” but there is an- 
other great reason and that is that every one of these grain, hay 
and forage crops is needed in a proper crop rotation so that our 
land may grow better each year instead of “running down.” 
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PART OF ONE OF THE FIELDS OF HASTINGS’ 
The Hastings Farm contains some 3.200 acres and in no single ! 
year does more than one-third of our acreage go into cotton. We 
plan just as carefully for our corn, oats and hay as for cotton. 
The illustration above shows a part of one of the fields of the 
famous Hastings Prolific Corn on the Hastings Farm. This is not 
an exceptional showing for this variety, thousands of bushels of 
which we grow every season. No prize crop cultivation here, just 
regular out and out good business farming plus good seed corn 
planted. The crop shown above was planted for feeding purposes 
and from exactly the same quality of seed as we send out to our 
customers regularly. 
With deep plowing, medium fertilizing, shallow cultivation 
through the growing season and the use of properly grown seed of 
varieties such as Hastings* Prolific you can have crops of corn that 
PROLIFIC CORN GROWING ON THE HASTINGS FARM 
will put you beyond the reach of the supply merchant every year. 
You can invariably have corn to sell instead of to buy. 
If you plant cotton seed from fields such as we show in this cata- 
logue you can grow just as many bales on half as many acres as 
you now cultivate and at a much less cost per pound. 
It’s a fact that millions of bales of cotton are produced every year 
at a cost of 10 cents per pound or upwards. With right seed of 
right varieties and with right cultivation 5 to 7 cents per pound is 
what it costs to grow cotton. The use of poor seed adds at least 3 
cents to the cost of each pound of cotton the grower makes. 
The use of poor seed corn cuts the yield per acre one-third to one- 
half and increases cost that much. We can’t and you can’t afford 
to keep loafing, thieving cotton or corn plants on your farms. We 
both need plants that do a full season’s work. 
