36 H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
YOU CAN grow" good WHEAT^OO 
It’s time for most of us to get our eyes open to plain facts. The 
South grows many millions of bushels of Wheat every year, yet 
how often do you ever see a field or even a small patch of wheat 
in your neighborhood? 
All parts of the South can and do grow good wheat. It’s merely 
habit that we have started looking on Avheat as a product of the 
colder sections. Egypt is a much warmer country than any of 
the Central, Southern and Gulf States, yet wheat has been one of 
the great staple food crops of that country for thousands of years, 
back as far as history goes. 
Now, a great many of us don’t realize that the yield per acre in 
the South, with intelligent handling, is heavier than the average i 
yield per acre of what are known as the wheat growing states of 
the North. We have planted wheat for many years and on ordi- 
nary good land have made as high as 51% bushels of wheat on a 
measured acre. The illustration below is from a photograph of a 
field of wheat that yielded 35 bushels per acre. 
If any one state would be classed as a non-wheat growing one, 
it w’ould be Florida, and yet one of the best crops of wheat we . 
have seen was grown in Bradford County, Florida, a hundred 
miles or more south of the Georgia line. We could go on and re- 
peat the details of stories of Alabama and Mississippi planting 
hundreds and thousands of acres every year, but it is unnecessary. 
The South can grow wheat and grow it profitably. Do you? 
There are a million or more farmers in the Cotton States that 
never grew an acre of wheat in their lives. They buy wheat (in 
the shape of flour) grown north, milled north, shipped from the 
north, and unless they pay an extra price for the extra fancy 
flour, they usually have occasion to “kick” about the poor quality. 
Our Southern wheat is of the best ; the quality of the flour from 
it is the best. If you want the best of flour, grow your own wheat 
here in the South and have flour made here. Any miller who can 
be assured of reasonable acreage in wheat is always glad to put 
in any necessary machinery for milling it. 
Wheat growing is one of the necessities of a good, all around, 
profitable “live at home and board at the same place” agriculture 
that will put the South where it ought to be, the wealthiest and 
best agricultural section, not only in the United States, but of the 
world. Wheat planters never regret their starting to plant it. 
A Crop of Our Georgia Red Wheat — the Man in the Center is Six Feet Tall — This Wheat Crop 
Yielded 35 Bushels Per Acre in Georgia — Why Not Grow Wheat Bike This? 
Rorl This is a bearded wheat of the finest type 
■mCtJ grown anywhere. We are constantly being 
asked the question, “What is the best variety of. wheat?” Now, 
there is no one best variety of wheat for all kinds of seasons, 
lands and locations. Some growers prefer a bearded wheat, others 
won’t have anything but a smooth or beardless wheat. Different 
growers and different sections have their preferences. 
Georgia Red is a thoroughly acclimated wheat grown here in 
Georgia for many years. It’s strong, vigorous and heavy yielding. 
It makes satisfactory crops in good seasons and bad. It’s extreme- 
ly hardy, standing our severest winters without serious injury. 
There are thousands of people each year in the South that plant 
wheat for the first time and possibly do not give the preparation 
that more experienced growers would give. To such we especially 
recommend our Georgia Red, for it will stand adverse conditions 
better than any variety of wheat we know. When you plant 
Georgia Red you know exactly what you have, an acclimated 
wheat that makes heavy yields. Pound, 25 cents; 5 lbs., $1.00; 
postpaid. Write for prices and sample when ready to buy. 
Blue Stem or Purple Straw 
growers in the South. It’s a fine, rather early, productive, beard- 
less variety of wheat, a standard in this section. It has always 
been a rather early variety, but the strain we are now handling 
ripens from a week to ten days ahead of the old strain. Good for 
grain production or if you desire to cut it when “in dough” makes 
a splendid hay crop. Pound, 25 cents; 5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. 
Write for prices, sample and freight rate. 
WHEN AND HOW 
TO PLANT 
It is impossible, in a gen- 
eral catalogue like this, 
to give detailed instruc- 
tions. If you are really 
interested in wheat and 
other grains we shall be 
pleased to send you our 
“Grain Book.” 
The best time to plant 
wheat in the Southern 
States is from the middle 
of October to the middle 
of December. The aim in 
any locality is to give the 
plants a chance to get well 
established before freez- 
ing weather sets in. How- 
ever, one of the best wheat 
crops we ever saw in this 
section was planted the 
day after Christmas. Seed 
should be drilled in rath- 
er than broadcasted. The 
“open furrow” system for 
planting oats will answer 
splendidly for wheat. 
In commercial fertiliz- 
ers, the Georgia Experi- 
ment Station recommends 
at seeding time 200 lbs. 
acid phosphate, 50 lbs. of 
muriate of potash, 350 
pounds cottonseed meal 
per acre, followed by 75 
pounds nitrate of soda in 
the spring, about 10 days 
before time for first 
heads to appear. In seed- 
ing early, use one bushel 
per acre. In late planting, say after November 15, you had best 
use from % to % bushel more seed. 
L ASin’e Pl-AlifiA WIlASlf (Beardless). This new wheat, 
Leap 9 rrOIITK; VYlieai after carefully growing it on 
our test and breeding farms, we find to show up better than any 
other variety of wheat that we have ever tried. We do not jump 
to this conclusion, but have tried it out right along with some sev- 
enty-five other varieties and in every case and test it has shown 
its superiority. To do this it must be a great wheat ^nd you will 
agree with us if you give it a try out. It is early, stiff and long in 
, the straw, white chaff, large in the berry, dark in color, hard, 
hardy, and you won’t find a heavier bearer for the South. The 
! hard, dark, large grains in compact heads from the heavy beard- 
less spikes will fill your bins. We couldn’t say anything better 
for any grain. Pound, 25c; 5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. Write for prices, 
sample and freight rates to your station when ready to buy. 
i IWIsiV VI/hAat have never been able to see where 
rmvu Bviajr wwiiwcii variety was any earlier and better 
; than the Blue Stem, although many prefer it to' that variety, claim- 
j ing great earliness. It’s a standard variety and a great favorite in 
the state of Tennessee. Pound, 25c; 5 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. Write 
' for prices, sample ajid freight rates when ready to buy. 
OnAAisil RrS AAC Use the “Special Quotation Sheet” in 
9pN»^lCll 1^11^69 the back of this catalog, telling us the 
amount of field seeds you expect to buy and we will send you 
our best prices and tell you how much the freight or express 
will be on that amount to your station. 
