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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
VETCH,THEWONDERFUL WINTER CROP 
That is exactly what it is, a wonderful winter crop for all the South. See the color illustration of 
Vetch on the front cover. One of the South Carolina growers expressed it well when he said: “I con- 
sider it the cowpea of the winter for our section.” 
"When we speak of Vetch in this connection we mean the plant known as Sand, Hairy or Winter Vetch, 
'which is the hardy variety, standing severe winters in all parts of the South without injury. This is 
the only variety safe to plant. Do not allow yourself to be fooled into buying the Spring Vetch either 
under the name of Spring Vetch, English Vetch or Oregon Vetch, for it is known under those three 
names. It is also used to adulterate Winter Vetch, and if you are offered Winter Vetch at a low price, 
look out for it. Spring Vetch is usually worth about 5 cents per pound and it is easy to fool the un- 
suspecting bujmr. 
The South needs three things above all others: winter cover crops to stop the washing from winter 
rains ; soil improving crops to add the most costly plant food element, nitrogen, to the soil for the use 
of succeeding crops, and hay for forage making crops for our live stock. to feed upon. 
In the Winter, Sand or Hairy Vetch we have in one winter growing crop something that combines 
those three and it justifies fully our calling it a ‘‘wonderful winter crop.” 
With all due respect to Crimson Clover and Bur Clover, and we plant them both ourselves, we have 
always considered Vetch the most valuable of the three for the Middle South. 
Planted with small amounts of rye, oats, wheat or barley for a support after it begins to run, Vetch 
makes a magnificent hay crop in spring, coming in ahead of everything else except thoroughly es- 
tablished fields of alfalfa, and at the same time leaves added fertility to the soil. 
Planted on Bermuda sod and scratched in lightly in October it furnishes an abundance of grazing all 
through winter and spring for beef or dairy cattle, hogs or sheep, and in late spring can be let go to 
seed, thus seeding down the ground for next season. 
Grown in abundance it makes possible the profitable growing and fattening of cattle, something that 
hundreds have attempted to do and failed simply because they have had to buy feed for those cattle at 
top-of-the-market prices. Crops like Vetch make possible profitable live stock growing which in turn 
means prosperity on Southern farms undreamed of by either our fathers or ourselves. . 
Vetch is a crop worth while. Plant at least a trial acre of it this year. Seed must be inoculated be- 
fore planting unless Vetch has been planted on the same ground before. For inoculating material see 
“Mulford Cultures” below. 
We make this assertion: that, in 3 years time, and without losing the use of the land, with a very 
small expense, any farmer in the middle South, can change his twenty-hushel-per-acre corn land into 
land that can and will make thirty-five bushels per acre. Please note that we are not talking about 
‘‘brag patches” or hundred-bushel-per-acre yields. We are talking about plain everyday farming. 
We have tried it and proved it on the Hastings’ Plantation with the use of Genuine Sand or Hairy 
Winter Vetch. Start it making your land rich this fail. 
Remember — there is no better winter crop in the South than Winter Vetch. We bank on it on the 
Hastings’ Piantation and we recommend it as highly as we possibly can. It’s a real crop. 
Write us when you are ready to buy and then we wili be able to tell you the exact price for Winter 
Vetch in any quantity. Pook out for Oregon grown Winter Vetch Seed at cheaper prices. Genuine 
Winter, Sand or Hairy Vetch, by mail, postpaid, 30 cents per pound. Quantity prices as this is written, about 12Ms cents a pound. 
Hairy or Winter Vetch 
Making better crops at less cost for fertilizer ought to be the aim and 
object of every farmer and gardener. Inoculation will help do both. Re- 
member, however, that these bacteria only act directly on what are 
known as leguminous crops ; this includes all kinds of clover, beans, 
peas, alfalfa, vetches and peanuts. On these the bacteria can be applied 
with direct benefit — that is, it will make great deal larger crops per acre 
than you would otherwise get. 
Our illustration shows how these bacteria act on the roots of legumin- 
ous plants such as just mentioned. The knobs or ‘‘nodules,” as they are 
termed, are little storehouses of nitrogen, that costly element of plant 
food that these bacteria have gathered from the air. Some of this goes 
to feed the plant while growing, but the larger part remains stored in 
the roots. After the clover, peas, etc., have been harvested, these roots 
decay, leaving in the soil a store of nitrogen for succeeding crops. A 
good crop of any leguminous plant growing in soil deficient in nitrogen 
will, if the seed is inoculated, add to that soil available nitrogen equal to 
that found in 700 to 1000 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, worth any- 
where from $30.00 to $50.00. What’s more is that the nitrates added by 
a leguminous crop stay in the soil much better than when applied in 
the form of nitrate of soda. 
The use of these bacteria on any leguminous crops means 50% to 100% 
more of that particular crop per acre, and it means a store of the highest 
priced element of plant food in your soil for succeeding crops. Isn’t 
that worth while to you? It certainly is to us and these inoculating ma- 
terials are used extensively on the Hastings’ Plantation every year. 
NOTE — There is a different kind of culture for each kind of legume, 
and you must tell what “kind of crop” you want to use it on when or- 
dering. Culture for alfalfa, for example, is not good for any other crop. 
We have Mulford Cultures for the inoculation of Alfalfa, Crimson Clo- 
ver, Sweet Clover, White Clover, Red Clover, Alsike Clover, Bur Clover, 
Cowpeas, Soy Beans, Peanuts, Vetch, Velvet Beans, Beggarweed, Eespe- 
deza or Japan Clover, Sweet Peas, Garden Peas, Garden Beans, Eima Beans. 
PRICE — One-acre size bottle, $1.50; 5-acre size bottle, $5.00; %-acre 
size bottle, 75 cents; Small Garden size, for Garden Peas, Garden Beans, 
Liima Beans and Sweet Peas only 35 cents; postpaid. Specify the ^rop 
yoq want to use it on, sure. 
See illustration. Alfalfa plant on left not inoculated — Plant 
on right inoculated with Mulford Culture for Alfalfa — All 
other conditions the same— The contrast speaks for itself 
