II. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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SEND A SAMPLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
We are determined to break up, so far as possible, this practice of selling adulterated and low grade grass and clover seed to Southern farmers by “cut price** 
seedsmen and dealers, loading your farms with grasses you don’t want and with weed seeds, worthless at the best, more often so dangerous that they become a pest. 
Many farmers don’t know it, but the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., maintains a “Seed Testing Bureau.” All you have to 
do is to send them, say an ounce, of any grass or clover seed you want tested and they will analyze and test it and write you telling you just how it is. We are 
perfectly willing to have the Department test anything we send out, and if you are offered grass and clover seed at a low price our advice is that you have it 
tested both for purity and vitality. There is always a reason for those “cut prices.” 
HASTINGS’ GRASSES AND CLOVERS 
No. 1 
Sample of Our Best Grade Clover Seed. 
No. 3 — Stand from Seed Shown in No. 1 
And Why Many Dealers Can and Do Sell Grass and Clover Seed Cheap 
We constantly urge the importance of buying 
nothing but the best in quality of seeds for we 
know positively that the best is always the cheap- 
est for you in the end. While this is true of all 
kinds of s^ed it is especially true of grasses and 
closers for there is nothing in the way of a seeds- 
men’s stock that is so easy to adulterate and in 
which such carelessness is shown. In recent tests 
by agents of the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture, samples of clover seeds of various kinds 
are bought on the open market and adulterations 
of weed seed up to 64% were found in some of this 
seed being sold at low prices. 
On this page we show the difference between the 
best grades such as we sell and the lower grades 
that are sold by many dealers whose^real induce- 
ment to buy is a much lower price. 
We use illustrations of clover seed to show this, 
but what we show' here is equally true of every 
variety of grass and clover on the market. These 
illustrations shown on this page are taken from 
photographs of clover seed magnified many times 
by powerful microscopes. 
Illustration No. 1 shows a sample of pure red 
clo\er seed absolutely free from all adulterations; 
the only kind that is really fit to plant. 
Illustration No. 2 shows a sample of low grade 
clover seed, full of seed of noxious weeds many of 
which may be pests that you can never get rid of. 
Hardly one-half of the weight of this sample is 
good clover seed that will germinate, while every 
weed in it is a source of danger and at the least a 
serious detriment to any piece of ground it may 
be sown on. Yet the difference in the retail prices 
of these two samples w’as only 2% cents per pound; 
$1.50 per bushel — and a bushel of red clover seed 
will sow from 3 to 4 acres. Let no man fool him- 
self into believing that all clover seed offered is 
good ; about 25% of the clover and grass seed sold 
is best grade seed. 
These tw’o illustrations show just why there is a 
difference in price between our clover seed and 
some others and that difference is not only in red 
clover, but goes through all the grasses and clovers. 
Illustration No. 3 shows what a clean stand may 
be obtained from the use of best seed. This is the 
result of sowdng some of the seed shown in illus- 
tration No. 1. This w'ould be a true representation 
of young clover from your own sowdng, supposing 
that your own ground is reasonably free from 
weed seed. It shows perfection in a stand of young 
clover. 
Illustration No. 4 shows the planting of seed 
shown in No. 2; the clover seed has germinated, 
but the weed seed is coming along just as fast or 
faster than the clover and you can see that the 
weeds are already twining around the young clover 
and choking it out. 
No. 4 — Stand from Seed Shown in No. 3 
Hastings’ Permanent Grass Mixture 
The South lacks pasture lands furnishing nutritious grasses for 
stock the year round and this permanent pasture grass mixture is 
made up of both summer and winter growing grasses to supply this 
need. This is the best of all permanent grass mixtures for the clay 
soils of the Central South; it contains 9 different grasses and 2 
clovers and the formula was worked out by our Mr. Hastings a 
number of years ago for a special customer of ours near Atlanta. 
Seyen years' haye passed since this pasture was put down and it is 
in better condition today both for grazing and hay than it was the 
first and second years, showing its permanency. There is no Ber- 
muda or Johnson grass in it: summer and winter growing grasses 
are blended in the right proportion to keep your pasture green the 
vear round. With an occasional fertilizing this mixture will furnish 
a pasture lasting for years. Sow in either fall or as early in the 
spring as soil can be worked at the rate of 35 pounds per acre. 
Price for 33 pounds of this mixture is .$5.30 f. o. b. Atlanta. All 
grass and clover seed in this mixture is of the highest possible 
grade. 
Hastings’ Evergreen Lawn Grass 
This is also a special mixture made up from a formula, and con- 
tains only grasses that have been successfully used on the lawns 
here in Atlanta for the last six years. Lawn-making has been a 
serious problem in this part of the South. The trouble with varie- 
ties like Kentucky Blue Grass being that they would not stand more 
than one full year, going to pieces under the heat and drought the 
second summer. After a considerable amount of careful experiment- 
ing we made up this mixture and it has stood the test of six years’ 
planting and wherever ground has been properly prepared before 
planting this has been the most successful in permanency of any of 
the lawn mixtures which we have ever seen in this climate. It makes 
a very quick show and soon becomes a beautiful, velvety lawn, on 
■well prepared soil. It stands summer heat and drought without se- 
rious permanent injury, coming out again in good shape as soon as 
the rains begin again. Pound, 45 cents; 2% pounds, $1.00; postpaid. 
Bushel (14 pounds), not prepaid, $3.25. Same should be sown at the 
rate of 40 to 50 pounds per acre although heavier seeding than this 
would make a quicker show. 
HASTINGS’ GRASS AND CLOVER BOOK 
Two years ago we prepared and published a booklet on Grasses and Clovers for the South, finely illustrated. It’s not for sale, but 
it’s free to any one of our customers interested. It tells all about the different grasses and clovers for the South, tells how to prepare 
your land to get the best results, when and how to sow the different kinds of seed of this class. If interested in grasses and clovers 
we shall be glad to send you a copy free on request. We believe it will help you in making profitable grass and clover crops. 
