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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
BERMUDA ONIONS 
A Money Making Vegetable Crop For the South 
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$100:29 to $600:22 Per Acre Clear Profit 
Send For Our Valuable Special Pamphlet On Bermuda Onion Culture 
Every year we have hundreds of letters asking for information 
about this crop, and we have prepared a new and up-to-date pam- 
phlet on Bermuda Onion Culture. It gives the methods of the 
most successful growers, both with and without irrigation. It 
takes up fully the subjects of preparation of soil, fertilizing, cul- 
tivation, seed-beds, transplanting, harvesting, and packing. It 
takes up the whole subject and gives all the information necessary 
to enable the careful grower to make a successful crop. 
No seed firm in this country has been in such close contact with 
the Bermuda Onion industry as we have or is in better position to 
give you information covering the growth of this crop under the 
different conditions existing in the various Southern States. This 
crop is being grown successfully and profitably in every Gulf 
State and there is plenty of room for thousands of acres more in 
these States, both for home markets and shipment. 
Onions cannot be grown with the same careless cultivation as cot- 
ton or melons or beans, but for the grower who is willing to give 
an onion crop the care it needs, no more profitable vegetable crop 
can be found. Enormous yields can be made, Florida reporting 700 
bushels per acre, with Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi not far 
behind that. This pamphlet is free. It shows how growers have 
cleared $100.00 to $600.00 per acre net profit. You can do likewise. 
THE MILLION DOLLAR CROP FROM HASTINGS’ SEEDS 
We Started Bermuda Onions as a Crop 
We began talking Bermuda Onions as a commercial crop about 
1891. We knew the Bermuda Onion and had full confidence that, 
once it became known, there would be a market for it that would 
put hundreds of thousands of dollars in Southern truck growers’ 
pockets. The development of this great industry in Texas, Florida 
and other states has justified our judgment fully. _ It is now one 
of the great Southern vegetable crops, the safest, surest vegetable 
crop a man can plant right on year after year. It has reached its 
greatest development in Southwest Texas where, during the ship- 
ping season, solid train loads of Bermuda Onions leave daily for 
Northern and Eastern markets. 
While Texas is the most important Bermuda Onion growing 
state, this crop is assuming larger proportions each year in Flor- 
ida, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. 
This development of a new and great industry has been possi- 
ble through genuine, good, unmixed seed obtained from Hastings. 
If it hadn’t been for Hastings there would probably be no Ber- 
muda Onion industry in Texas now. 
The Bermuda Onion is the safest vegetable crop that you can 
grow. It’s adapted to the Southern third of Texas, the coast sec- 
tions of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, all of Florida, 
and the valley lands of Southern California. The Bermuda Onion 
grower has a sure and steady market for his product, North, 
South, East and West, and it seldom nets him less than cents 
per pound, and often 3 and 4 cents. Its importance as a money 
crop can hardly be over-estimated. Let the consumer once get a 
taste of genuine Bermuda Onion and he will buy no other so long 
as a Bermuda is on the market. No gardener should fail to grow 
them either for market or home use, 
You Can Always Tell Hastings’ Onions 
Over a thousand cars of Bermuda Onions grown from Hastings* 
Seeds marketed in 1920. Their superior quality and freedom from 
Reds, Pinks, Doubles and Splits enabled our customers to realize 
many thousands of dollars extra profits above the returns secured 
by other growers, who did not use Hastings’ Seeds. 
The onions are usually sold by the growers f. o. b. tracks, the 
buyers inspecting the cars and paying according to quality. Fre- 
quently, buyers will pay a good premium on a car of onions from 
one of our customers, when other growers cannot get the market 
price. Why is this? Simply because quality counts always. ^Hast- 
ings’ Bermuda Onion Seed will always be the best quality for that 
is the first consideration in our business. No other house has ever 
been able to equal the quality of our seed and experienced grow- 
ers know it. That is why they will not take chances with any 
other seed as long as they can buy from Hastings’. 
One of the largest growers in Texas told us last year that his 
crop from Hastings’ Seeds gave him $11,000 more than he would 
have gotten from the same amount of Bermuda Onions grown 
from any other seeds. 
Any onion grower or one accustomed to handling shipments of 
Bermuda Onions can tell a car from Hastings’ Seeds as soon as 
he sees it. The reason is, besides being better shaped and more 
uniform onions there is the great freedom from Reds, Pinks, 
Doubles and Splits in Hastings’ White or Yellow Bermuda Onions, 
the big variety for market and shipment. 
These seeds have to be grown with the utmost care and it takes 
two years to produce a crop of seeds. They are grown on one is- 
land in the Canaries, off the coast of Africa, and our man stays 
on the ground all the time, carefully selecting the bulbs for ^eh 
of the seed growers who work under him, watching the cultiva- 
tion, harvest, saving of seeds, and the many other duties neces- 
sary in producing the highest quality seeds. 
