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H. G, Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
FULGHUM E 
This comparatively new early variety has taken Georgia almost 
by storm for an early oat, and is very hardy and perfectly suitable 
for fall sowing in all parts of the Souths provided, of course, that 
it is planted by the “Open Furrow Method.” 
We have watched this new oat with great interest. We placed 
seed stock of it in the hands of our most expert seed growers and 
based on our observation and experience and the experience of our 
growers we have not a word to change from what we stated about 
this variety in our fall catalog for 1914, which we reprint below: 
“This new oat will, we believe, fill a distinct place in Soutliern 
oat growing. We do not expect it to take tlie place of the regular 
rust proof main crop strains such as ‘100-Bushel,’ Appier and 
others but it has a distinct place to fill. 
“Extravagant claims have been made for the Fulghum for extra 
earliness, large yields, etc., which have not been borne out by actual 
test. However, it is a good early oat with exceedingly heavy straw. 
A three-year impartial test by one of the Southern Experiment Sta- 
tions shows that its average date of maturity is eight days earlier 
GENUINE APPLER OATS 
A selection from the Texas Red Rust Proof made years ago in 
Georgia, and was the best variety up to the introduction of our 
“100-Bushel.” Still largely planted but yield is usually 20% to 
30% less per acre than the “100-Bushel.” It is a genuine “rust 
proof” strain. Pound, 25 cents; 5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. Write for 
quantity prices, samples and freight rates, when ready to buy. 
account of the uncertainty of the seed stoc 
■ ■ prices on most seed grains at the time this cat 
request as soon as yon are ready to buy. Use Special Quotation Shee 
;arly oats 
than Appier, and the yield per acre each year ranged from eight to 
ten bushels less than Appier. Apparently its greatest value is as a 
variety to plant for part of the crop, for by planting half the acre- 
age in Fulghum and half in ‘100-Bushel’ or Appier the length of the 
harvesting season is lengthened -and the farmer with limited ma- 
chinery equipment can handle successfully a larger acreage.” 
It is well to remember in oats as w’ell as other grain crops that 
earliness is always obtained at the expense of less yield per acre. 
The Fulghum is the best early oat we have seen for the South, 
1 yet it is not going to take the place of the more generally planted 
and heavy yielding varieties for the most profitable variety. We 
recommend it as an early oat only and for those wTlling to sacrifice 
quantity to earliness. It is a clean, vigorous growing, healthy va- 
riety tor early crops and has practically superseded the Burt or 
90-Day Oat in the Cotton Belt. Recleaned, graded seed. Prices, 
freight rates and samples sent on request. Pound, 25 cents; 5 lbs., 
$1.00; postpaid. Not prepaid: Bushel, $1.50; 10 Bushels or over, 
$1.25 per Bushel. 
TEXAS RUST PROOF OATS 
Genuine Texas growm seed. We get this variety direct from 
Texas in solid car lots. While we do not recommend it as com- 
pared with “100-bushel” and “Appier” we can supply the very best 
recleaned seed with the weed seed and Johnson Grass, almost in- 
variably found in them, removed. Pound, 25 cents; 5 lbs., $1.00; 
postpaid. Write for best prices, samples and freight rates. 
k and variations in market price conditions we cannot make definite 
alog goes to press, but we shall be glad to give you special prices on 
t in back of catalog and we will give you the best of Hastings’ Service, 
GRAIN SMUT AND HOW TO PREVENT IT 
Keep all barberry bushes cut close to the ground. Treat every lot of oats, wheat, rye and barley you plant with “Formalin” or 
“40% Formaldehyde” solution. The day before planting spread grain on floor and sprinkle thoroughly with a solution of one pint 
of formalin to 40 gallons of water, or put solution in barrel and dip sack of grain in it 30 minutes and then spread grain to partly 
dry. Get formalin at drug stores. Pint will treat 40 to 50 bushels of grain. Open grain drill a little more than for dry seed. 
Rarlov Furnishes fine grazing through the 
DecirUHV99 DdllCJ winter and spring; also makes 
a fine quality hay. If not grazed too long Barley may be harvested 
for grain, making it a dual purpose crop. Very easily grown 
through the South and your idle land needs this cover crop. 
Sowed at last cotton or corn working, the only expense is the cost 
of seeds. Broadcasting takes 2 bushels per acre. Pound, 25 cents; 
5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. Not prepaid: Peck, 75 cents; Bushel, $2.00. 
Write for prices on quantity lots when ready to buy. 
Hastings’ Genuine Sout 
All rye which we handle is strictly winter rye and perfectly 
hardy. It is Southern grown and adapted to this entire section, 
either for winter grazing or grain production. With half a chance 
It almost invariably “makes good” wherever planted in the South 
Every bushel of rye that goes out from this house is right stock. 
We know exactly from where it comes. Every bushel of it goes 
through our recleaning machinery, which takes out dust, trash | 
Roafrforf RarlAV recent years there has been a. great 
increase in barley planting, especially 
by poultry raisers, who want it for winter green feed and grazing. 
The only choice our customers have between the Bearded and 
Beardless Barley is their like or dislike for the beards. All our 
Barley is Southern grown winter Barley and mighty good stock 
seed that will do well for you. Plant good recleaned and tested 
Barley this fall. Pound, 25c; 5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. Not prepaid: 
Peck, 75 cents; Bushel, $2.00. Write for quantity prices when 
ready to buy. 
hern Grown Winter Rye 
and light grains that are left by threshing machines. It’s exactly 
what you need to make a successful rye crop next winter. 
PRICES — Pound, 25c; 5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. On account of the 
great uneertainty of s,eed stocks at the time this catalog goes to 
press we can’t make definite prices on quantity lots of field seeds, 
but when you are ready to buy, just write us and we will give you 
the best prices possible. Use the special yellow quotation sheet in 
the back of this catalog and send it in as early as possible. 
New Abruzzi Rye 
About 1904 agents of the United States Department of Agriculture found a variety of rye in one of the Italian provinces and sent 
a quantity of it to Washington. From there it was distributed to various parts of the United States. In this way a prominent 
planter of South Carolina got hold of it. Its remarkably rapid growth so soon after planting attracted his attention and the small 
patch was carefully watched. 
We have grown it since 1913 and do not hesitate to say that it is as far ahead of the Southern rye as the Southern is ahead of 
Northern rye. We grew about one hundred acres of Abruzzi Rye on the Hastings’ Farm this past season and each year we are 
better satisfied with it. 
The Abruzzi Rye stools out quicker and heavier than any rye we have ever seen and quickly covers the entire ground. It cai^n be 
pastured a month to six weeks earlier than other varities of rye or oats. 
You may be sure, too, that it succeeds equally well on stiff clay lands and the sandy lands of the Eower South. 
For the dairyman this quickness of being ready to pasture will make it invaluable, and for all others it is certainly well worth 
while planting a A’ariety that will make 50 to 100 per cent more pasturage or hay in a season than the older sorts. We believe that 
the Abruzzi Rye will, in time, displace all other varieties of rye in the South, and you certainly ought to get a start of it this fall. 
Pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 2 pounds, .$1.00. Not prepaid: Peck, $1.00; Bushel, $3.50. Write for quantity prices when ready to buy. 
