H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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HASTING'S FARM BULLETINS-FREE 
Every year we receive thousands of letters of general inquiry as to the growth of the various important crops in the South. We 
found it impossible to give all the information as fully and completely as we would like to in personal letters. For that reason we be- 
gan the publication of a series of practical booklets or bulletins on the most important crops, answering fully the usual questions asked. 
These bulletins are not for sale, birt they are free to our customers on request. If interested, ask for one or more of them, either by 
postal card, letter or with your seed orders. We can supply bulletins on the following subjects, although special attention is called to 
several of the more important below. Ask for them — they will help you: No. 100 — Bur Clover; No. 101 — Alfalfa; No. 102 — Crops for Hog 
Feeding; No. 103 — Dwarf Essex Rape; No. 104 — Grasses; No. 106 — Southern Hay and Forage Crops; No. 107 — Onions for the South; No. 
108 — Small Grains; No. 109 — Meadows and Pastures for the South; No. 110^ — Corn; No. Ill — Cotton. 
HASTING’S CORN BOOK FREE 
Your Continued prosperity is largely dependent on growing grain and forage sufficient tor j'our own needs. 
Properly cultivated in the South corn is a more profitable crop than cotton. Rightly grown, corn can be produced in almost every 
Southern State on your farm for one-third to one-half the merchant’s cash price for poorer Western corn. 
The net profits on your cotton or other cash crop is largely dependent on how little you spend for corn or products of corn in the'' 
shape of meat, meal, etc. Corn at 10 to 15 bushels per acre does not, never will and never can, pay for the labor put on it. Corn at 30 to 
100 bushels per acre pays, and pays handsomely. Do you want to get in the 30 to 100 bushels of corn-per-acre class? 
W’e publish a practical bulletin on corn-growdng in the South. This is what is known as Hastings’ Corn Book. It contains the best 
methods used by practical and successful corn growers in Georgia, Ylississippi, Alabama, Texas, Fouisiana and other Southern States. 
It gives plain directions lor growing 100 bushels or more of corn per acre. If you follow' the plain directions given in this booklet you 
need never buy another bushel of corn from your merchant or grain dealer. You will have corn to sell instead of to buy. It will pay 
you to have this “Corn Book,’’ for there is nothing in these corn-growing methods that can’t be carried out by any reasonably intelli- 
gent farmer in the South. Hastings’ Corn Book is not for sale, but we are always glad to send a copy of it free to any of our customers. 
HASTINGS COTTON BOOK FREE 
No cotton grower can be really successful who makes less than a bale per acre, no matter what cotton sells for. On the HASTINGS 
FARM in good average seasons our crops range from one to two bales per acre where the land has been brought up to the proper con- 
dition by the rotation of crops and deep plowing. YVe find that it actually costs but little more to grow one to two bales per acre than 
it does a half bale. Our Cotton Book is in no sense a price list or catalogue, but a booklet containing our methods and those of other- 
successful cotton growers both in and out of the Boll YVeevil district who are in the bale-per-acre class and above. YY^here are you? If 
you are making less than a bale per acre right through your crop this booklet can help you. It contains only solid farm facts that we 
and other practical, successful cotton growers have worked out, not on paper, but on the farm. 
YYe can and do make one to two bales per acre without spending a young fortune for fertilizer. Others are doing likewise. Y'ou can, 
if you W'ill. Our Cotton Book tells how. If you will follow the methods outlined in our Cotton Book you can grow just as many bales 
on hall the number of acres ; that is, if you are making less than a bale per acre now-. If you want one of these “Cotton Books” just 
write, asking for it. YY’e send it free. YY^ith all due respect to you and your present methods w'e believe that our methods are much bet- 
ter. Results count. YY'e are in the l-to-3-bale class, following our methods. YY'here are you at, following yours? 
HASTINGS ALFALFA BULLETIN 
Alfalfa is the most talked about and the most w’idely planted forage or hay plant in the world. 
YY'e have seen it growing successfully and profitably seven thousand feet above sea level in Southern Mexico. YVe have seen it grow- 
ing even better under burning desert sun in Southern California. YY'e have seen it growing in Florida and Georgia, and up along the 
Canada line. YVe have seen it almost everywhere in this country. 
Alfalfa is one of the most adaptable as well as most profitable plants we know of, and you can grow it on your farm if you will 
give it a chapce by right treatment at the start. 
YVe have thousands of letters asking for information about alfalfa every year and we have put fvull information about Alfalfa and how 
to prepare your land for it to insure success in this free bulletin of ours. 
It’s a strictly up-to-date bulletin on Alfalfa, and if you are interested in Alfalfa you ought to send for and read this pamphlet. 
Growing Alfalfa is not a careless job, but it’s a well worth w'hile job. Some day, if not now, you Avill plant Alfalfa and we are sure 
this Alfalfa Bulletin will help. It’s free if you ask for it. 
SOUTHERN HAY AND FORAGE CROPS 
This is essentially a booklet of the summer growing hay and forage crops suitable for all parts of the South, all of which are useful 
in keeping the cotton dollars, the fruit and vegetable dollars, and all the rest of the “cash crop” dollars at home— in your pocket or in 
your bank. This booklet touches on Kaffir Corn, Jerusalem Corn, Sorghum, Milo-maize, Pearl or Cattail Millet, German Ylillet, Mam- 
moth Sunflower, Teosinte, Beggarweed, Soja or Saj' Beans, Y'elvet Beans, Cowpeas and Japanese Buckwheat. 
Every one of these crops has a proper and valuable place on the well regulat ed, diversified Southern farm w hose owner plans and 
works to keep the money from his “cash crop” at home. All of them make valuable stock food or grain products for horses, mules, hogs, 
and poultry, while many of them are “land builders” or soil improvers, as well. 
You need some of them on your farm in :^18, It is w'ell that you should knoyv inore about them, their habits and their value. Send 
for this booklet. It won’t C08t you a cent. 
