A VISIT TO THE 
The Hastings Farm is the only one of its kind in this country 
and, it is a constant source of regret to us that every one of bur 
hundreds of thousands of customers can’t visit it during the sum- 
mer season and see for themselves just what the combination of 
thorough cultivation, medium fertilizing, and planting the best of 
seed will produce. 
As it is impossible for most of you to come, the next best thing 
is for us to bring a small portion of the Hastings Farm to you 
through reproductions from photographs. 
We want it distinctly understood that the Hastings Farm is a 
business farm, run to make money just as yours is. It is run on a 
HASTINGS FARM 
thoroughly practical farm basis. It is not run, as many alleged 
seed farms are, just for “catalogue purposes,” that is to give the 
impression that extensive seed growing operations are carried on 
by the firm when as a matter of fact little or nothing of the kind 
is done. 
In these farm field pictures we show you what entire fields look 
like at maturity, hundreds of acres instead of little “brag patches,” 
or single specially grown plants such as are commonly shown at 
fairs. 
The real thing that you as a seed buyer want to know, is, not 
what a single plant looks like, or a little brag patch but what the 
fields look like that the seed you are asked to buy comes from. 
COTTON PICKING ON HASTINGS' TEST AND 
The photograph above shows a field of our specially bred cotton 
that turned out at the rate of slightly over bales per acre. The 
land (red upland) was plowed 12 inches deep, fertilized with 600 
pounds of a well balanced fertilizer. 
Some growers (usually those with seed to sell) will tell you tliey 
have made 2 to 3 bales per acre. When you pin them down to the 
actual facts they will owfi up that the bales were 375 to 400 pound 
bales, and that they used 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of extra high grade 
fertilizer per acre. 
We don’t call that a “square deal.” In the first place when we 
talk about bales we mean real 500-pound bales. Second, the use of 
excessive amounts of commercial fertilizer is not good farming. Its 
buying a big yield at an unnecessarily high cost and in the end 
is a damage rather than a help to the soil. 
The real secret of farm success is to grow the greatest number of 
pounds or bushels per acre at the lowest cost per pound or bushel, 
and at the same time leave the soil in better condition than at the 
beginning of the year. 
A year ago last fall one of the Atlanta papers carried a news 
item, telling of a Georgia farmer taking his entire crop of 115 
bales of cotton to town and selling it for 9 cents, then paraded 
around town witlr-signs on his wagons, saying: Cost 12% cents 
per pound to grow, sold for 9 cents.’’ 
BREEDING FARM, TROUP COUNTY, GEORGIA. 
We happened to know that particular farmer and his farm. If we 
were he we would either change our methods or quit growing cot- 
ton. He is one of these %-bale-per-acre farmers and we would be 
ashamed to own up to such a cost in one of the best cotton grow- 
ing seasons Georgia ever had. 
We can assure you that this Georgia farmer’s fields do not look 
like the ones on the Hastings Farm. 
On the Hastings Farm in good average, growing seasons lint 
cotton is produced at a cost not exceeding 6 cents per pound and it 
is done by a combination of best seed and right cultivation. 
Now, we are doing nothing in our farming that any other progres- 
sive farmer cannot do and which many of them who make from % 
to 1 bale per acre are doing. The difference between the % to 1 
bale per acre yield and our two bales is practically all in seed 
which has been bred up right. 
It is possible to make large yields per acre in two ways. First 
and usually the less profitable way is the use of excessive amounts 
of fertilizer: the second is by the use of rightly bred seed and 
medium fertilizing. . 
In a nutshell the proposition works out about like this : With 
common seed and $20.00 to $25,00 worth of fertilizer per acre the bale 
to bale and a half is possible ; with .$2.00 worth of well bred and 
grown seed plus $5,00 to $6.00 for fertilizer 1% to 2 bales can be 
made, and otnep crops in proportiono 
