H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC CORN (No. 140) 
Hastings’ Prolific, Finest in Quality 
A Wonderful Producer of Grain and 
Forage— The Prize- Winning Corn 
of the South for You to Plant. 
No man in tbe South that we know of ever got into trouble by having too much corn, the 
product of bis own acres, or too many bogs to finish off on corn. 
We have never beard of any man going “broke” on a farm in the South where it was the 
regular practice to grow enough corn and other grain and feedstuffs to see that farm through 
until another crop was made. 
On the other hand Atlanta and other cities and towns of the South contain tens of thousands 
of financial wrecks from the farms who went “broke” trying to grow all cotton or nearly all 
cotton and depending on that cotton to pay store hills for corn and foodstuffs that could have 
been made on those home acres at from one-third to one-half the merchants’ price. 
With present cotton prices we miss our guess if the average farmer don’t plant cotton “right 
up to the graveyard,” and unless Providence steps in and insures poor yields cotton prices 
will tumble next fall. 
No man at planting time can foresee within 12 to 15 cents per pound what cotton prices will 
be next fall and winter, but it’s a dead certainty that corn and all other grains and foodstuffs 
will stay high for a year or two after the war is over. 
High corn prices hurt and hurt only the man who has corn to buy. He who makes corn 
enough to see him through and to sell can sit back at ease in mind and pocket regardless of 
whether the price be high or low. 
It’s a time above all others in this world of ours to play safe to the extent of growth of corn 
and other feedstuffs to the extent of home needs on one’s own acres. It’s the only safe way. 
76 BUSHELS PER ACRE ON FLORIDA SANDY SOIL 
It’s not so much a question of the number of acres you plant in corn as it is the variety and 
quality of seed of that variety. If you plant properly grown and selected seed of that best of 
all variety for the South, HASTINGS’ PKOL-IFIC, you come as near insuring a full corn crib 
from your corn acres as is humanly possible. 
Florida’s sandy soils are not looked on as being liable to break any world’s record in corn 
yields and they have not. We want you to look at the picture below showing a small section 
of a field of HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC grown this past season by Frank E. Walker, of Nassau 
County, Florida. Frank is less than 18 years old, he planted on sandy soil and gathered 76 
bushels per acre. How does your bottom land compare with this? 
A Florida Boy’s Crop of Hastings* Prolific, 76 Bushels Per Acre 
