H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmer.,, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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Plant Plenty of Peanuts 
The peanut as a “cash” crop and as a feeding and fattening crop is coming into its 
own. In many parts of the South it has long been looked on as desirable to have a 
small peanut patch for the hogs to run on for fattening and possibly a few over for 
the children to “parch.” 
Now the peanut has become a full man sized crop with tens of thousands of acres 
under cultivation both tor hog feeding and in many sections for sale direct to oil 
mills for the manufacture of peanut oil and meal. 
Peanuts ought to be a regular crop on every Southern farm that has sandy, light 
clay or loose loam soils. Every part of the crop is of use. The tops make splendid 
hay or forage, the nuts are valuable either for teed or for sale to the oil mills, most 
of whom will contract in advance for your crop. You can trade with them and get 
back the meal tor feed just as you would trade cotton seed for cottonseed meal. 
Last, but not least, the peanut is one of the leguminous plants that draw that 
most costly element of plant food, nitrogen, from the air, depositing it in your soil 
for the use of future crops. 
The peanut as a real crop has come to the Cotton Belt to stay. If you fail to plant 
peanuts plentifully it’s your loss. The Spanish Peanut (two varieties) is early and a 
heavy bearer. In Florida and along the Gulf Coast where they can be planted as early 
as April and as late as July 15th, two crops can be made. Plant from 1 to 2 bush- 
els per acre, the Spanish or bush sorts thicker or closer than the running varieties. 
Just a word. You may desire some of the improved varieties such as are offered 
below. You may not feel able to pay the price for quantity sufficient for your acre- 
age. Send in yoUr order for one or three pounds or more, plant in well prepared 
ground and grow your seed for large acreage next year. 
Hastings' Improved Spanish (Mo.679),™„"du“c7d 
bred for the purpose of increasing the size somewhat and the number of kernels per 
hull to three to a marked degree, yet keeping the fine quality and productiveness 
of the standard Spanish peanut. Our grower has established this sort and has ob- 
tained better yields than with any other variety. It is especially adapted to sandy 
lands and shows remarkably few “pops” in the crops. Best recleaned, hand-picked 
seed stock. Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00; postpaid. Peck (6% pounds), $1.00, not 
prepaid; bushel (25 pounds), $3.50. 
CnatiSeli PASiniif' /Na I \ ^ the best variety 
9panisn reanuc for a forage and fattening crop in the 
South. An early, heavy bearer; bushes .growing close, so very easily cultivated. 
Grains or nuts are smaller, but much sweeter and finer fiavored and much more 
free from “pops” than the larger sorts. Best recleaned seed stock. Pound, 35 cents; 
3 pounds, 85 cents; postpaid. Peck (6^ pounds), not prepaid, 90 cents. Prices sub- 
ject to market changes. Write for quantity prices -when ready to buy. 
North Carolina Running Peanut (No. 580) baf been 
creased planting of the running varieties of peanuts. The best and surest cropper 
in the Central and Lower South is the “North Carolina.” Nuts somewhat larger 
than the Spanish, easily grown, and nuts fill out nicely with very few “pops” for a 
running variety. Finest recleaned seed stock. Pound, 35 cents; 3 pounds, 85 cents; 
postpaid. Not prepaid, peck (6% pounds), 90 cents. Write for market prices when 
ready to buy. 
Hastings’ Improved Spanish Peanut 
Japanese Buckwheat (No. 615) ftM 
adapted and may be sown in very early spring or late summer, maturing in about two 
months. It is easily grown, desirable, and profitable for large grain yields, flower food 
for bees, and turned under it is a good soil improver. Where weeds are thick, buck- 
wheat will smother them and put the soil in good condition for the crops that follow. 
Buckwheat makes a fine quality of flour, the kind that goes into the famous “Buckwheat 
Cakes.” It’s great for the poultry. Pound, postpaid, 25 cents. Not prepaid, peck (12 
pounds, U. S. Standard), $1.00. Write for quantity prices. 
JERUSALEM 
ARTICHOKE 
THE GREATEST 
OF HOG FEEDS 
The Southern farmer who grows hogs 
and does not grow Jerusalem Artichoke 
is neglecting a most important hog-food 
crop. It is a most valuable food for hogs, 
fattening them quickly, and it is said by 
many hog raisers that a hog fed on arti- 
chokes has never been known to have 
cholera. They are fully adapted to 
Southern plantings, growing and in- 
creasing through the entire season. They 
are grown from tubers, the same as Irish 
- . . , 1 , potatoes. It requires 6 bushels to plant 
an acw. On very rich land they have produced nearly 1000 bushels per acre. Turn the hogs 
into the field and they will har^mst them. Plant in March and April in rows 3 feet apart, 
dropping seed every 2 feet in the row. Let grow until fall. Hogs will be delighted to har- 
vest them all through the winter. Pound, postpaid, 25 cents; 3 pounds, 65 cents. By freight 
or express, not prepaid, peck (12% pounds), 75 cents; bushel (50 pounds), about $2.25. Write 
for larger quantity prices. 
ADQPD FAD|_Y time of great seed scarcity the man or woman who orders 
^■**^"** ■ geed early is wise. Get seed in hand before planting time. 
Tubers of Jerusalem Artichoke 
Japanese Buckwheat — Natural Size 
