H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
H OM E GROWN FOOD 
PAYS NO OUTSIDER A PROFIT 
Can you, out of the present or prospective prices of cotton or I 
tobacco, fruit or vegetables grown for shipment afford to pay an | 
outsider a profit on the food, grain, hay or forage that is con- i 
sumed on your farm? Certainly not when practically all of those i 
things can be grown on your own acres at a cost of one-half or 
less than the merchant’s prices. i 
We have all had some awful bumps since last summer, bigger, 
harder bumps than any of us could have anticipated. Some of ; 
these bumps could have been softened some had our government | 
acted differently last fall but that’s all water over the dam. It 
does no good to discuss that part of it now. 
The real-right-down-to-the-bottom-trouble is that we are paying 
unnecessaTily too many profits to outsiders on the food and grain 
consumed on our Southern farms. We know that there are some 
exceptions to this, some good folks far sighted enough to see the 
common sense necessity of home production but they are few in 
comparison with the many. 
We all go broke or near broke every time there is a slump in the 
price of our so-called cash crops. It matters not whether the cash 
crop be cotton, tobacco, vegetables or berries for shipment, 
oranges, peaches or what not. The system of one crop growth 
and the buying of all or nearly all of the food and grain is a sys- 
tem deadly to permanent farm prosperity. 
Our dream of easy money is over. We woke up to a reality of 
debt, disaster, thousands of farm bankruptcies, in many cases the 
savings of a life time, swept away. In greater or less degree this 
kind of a thing has happened three times in the last dozen years. 
We pay a fearful price every few years for the privilege of follow- 
ing this wrong system. 
Do you know any farmer in your community who has been for 
several years growing his own bread and meat and grain and for- 
age who was put. out of business by the times we have passed 
through during the past nine or ten months? We don’t. 
It’s true that all of us are more or less hard up, money scarce 
and store or bank credit as scarce or scarcer than money. But, 
the man who has been making his bread and meat, who has enough 
on hand to do him until the next “bread and meat” comes in, has 
little need for credit and can get that credit if there is any credit 
around the neighborhood. 
We might just as well face facts. Most of us have bravely and 
courageously gone to work to repair the damage and losses of the 
past year. There was nothing else to do. We ought, however, 
never let ourselves get caught in the same kind of a trap again. 
If we do we are not entitled to help or sympathy. 
We might just as well forget all about 35 or 40 cent cotton and 
like prices for the tobacco, the fruits, the market vegetables, etc. 
Those prices are probably gone, never to retu’rn within our life- 
time. We must face the necessity of making and selling cotton 
at less than 20 cents, probably around 15 cents with normal size 
crops. Other crops must be in proportion. 
Cost of production must be brought down. The cost of making 
cotton or other cash crop is largely the cost of bread and meat 
for human labor, grain and forage for animal labor. You can not 
afford to pay an outsider a profit on the food and grain, the larger 
part of the cash crop money. Make food, make grain, make forage 
on your own acres and pay no unnecessary outside profits. Time 
now to start the fall garden. A dozen oe more vegetables can be 
planted and run through until spring. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, 
pastures, rape, vetch, alfalfa and other clovers all have an impor- 
tant part in cutting off “outsiders profits.” Get right, stay right 
and be permanently prosperous. You can if you will. 
NOTICE time this catalog goes to press we cannot offer field and grass seeds at definite prices. The 
I Iwb market varies almost daily, so when you are ready to buy oats, wheat, rye, barley, grasses, clovers, al- 
falfai etc., write us for prices on the quantity you need. We will give you the best prices, send samples if requested, and freight 
or express rates to your station. Use the Special Quotation Sheet in the back of this catalog. There’s no obligation to buy unless 
you want to. 
Alphabetical Index for Catalogue Reference 
Flower Seeds are listed on pages 43-45. 
Flowering Bulbs are listed on pages 46-47 
and back cover. 
Roses (plants) are listed on page 48. These 
are outdoor grown 2-year roses. 
So far as possible, Ave have arranged the 
vegetables in alphabetical order. 
Alfalfa Page 38 | 
Asparagus 3 | 
Bacteria, Soil Inoculation 42 
Barley 35 
Beans, Garden - 3-5 
Beets 6-7 
Broccoli 7 
Brussels Sprouts 7 
Bulbs Rear Cover and 46-47 i 
Cabbage 8-9 ! 
Carrots . 11 
Cauliflower 10 ! 
Celeriac 11 i 
Celery 11 
Chervil 7 
Clovers 38-39 
Collards 10 
Cos, White Paris 15 
Cress 7 
Cucumbers 12 
Eggplant 13 
Endive 7 
Fetticus (Corn Salad) 7 
FloAvers 43-48 
Garlic 17 
Grasses 40-41 
Hog Pasture (Grain) Mixture .... 37 
Insecticides 30 
Kale ((Borecole) 13 
Kohl Rabi 13 
Leeks 13 
Lettuce 14-15 
Mustard 19 
Oats 
Okra 
Onions and Onion Sets 
Parsley 
Parsnips 
Peas . . 
Peppers 
Pianting Table . . . . 
Radish 
Rape 
Roses ((piants) ... 
Rutabagas 
Rye 
Salsify 
Southern Ruralist . . , 
Spinach 
Squash 
Tomatoes 
Turnips 
Vetch ....... 
Wheat 
34-35 
. 19 
16-18 
. 19 
. 19 
20-21 
. 22 
. 31 
24-25 
. 37 
. 48 
. 23 
. .23 
26-27 
28-29 
. 42 
This complete catalog— all reading matter and illustrations — Copyrighted, 1921, by H. G, Hastings Co., Atlanta, Ga. 
