H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgii 
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HALF YOUR LIVING 
WITHOUT MONEY COST 
The question of cost of living is and has been a question that has 
come home to every one of us in recent years. A year ago, or a lit- 
tle more, the high prices of everything was the trouble. Now the 
trouble is lack of money to buy with even at much lower prices for 
the things we usually buy. 
Our greatest trouble here in the South is that we buy too much 
food, grain, etc., at high prices that can be and should be grown 
on our own ground and at practically no money cost. 
We are between fires most of the time. If we have a good crop 
of cotton or other so-called cash crop the price is too low to make 
it really pay a profit. On the other hand when prices are high our 
yields of cotton or other cash crop is so small that there is not 
money enough to match our buying needs when we depend on sup- 
ply merchant for most of our food. 
The general spread of the boll weevil over practically all the cot- 
ton growing territory brings this question right home to three- 
fourths of the readers of this catalog. Dependence on cotton to 
pay for all or practically all food consumed is no longer safe. To 
stick to the old way of cotton or other cash crop growing with the 
idea of paying for food and grain from the cash crop is simply 
inviting the sheriff to come and sell you out sooner or later. 
On the next page we go into this question at greater length. It 
will pay you well to read all that we say on this subject very care- 
fully. For more than thirty years we have been carefuliy studying 
this question and experimenting in our own farming operations. 
Growing cotton or other cash crop and buying all or nearly all 
food and grain with what the cash crop sells for can’t be done and 
at the same time have you and your family live in decent style 
either in the way of food or clothing or the other things necessary 
to make life worth while. He who attempts this is attempting the 
impossible and every people and every country that has tried to do 
it has failed. 
It’s time to quit butting our heads against this stone wall. It’s 
time for every one of us who has not already done so to break the 
chains of one crop slavery. It’s time to give the food and grain 
crops, sufficient for home needs at least, first attention instead of 
last attention, the best ground instead of the sorriest ground, the 
best of cultivation instead of the “lick and a promise” kind. 
We must produce our cash crops at less cost or go broke. This 
is cold facts that we face. The cost of making “cash crops” is large- 
ly the cost of food for the human labor and food for the animal 
labor. Home grown food, grain and forage can be largely made 
without money cost and largely in time that would otherwise be 
wasted or idled away. 
These food and grain costs are at the very least half the cost of 
making any and every cash crop in the South. If you grow your foods 
and feeds you don’t have to buy them or go in debt to merchants 
for them. With food and grain a-plenty the need for credit is lim- 
ited. You simply can’t get ahead until food, grain and forage is 
made at home. You can get at least half of all your living without 
money cost or going in debt. If you can’t go all the wav the first 
year go part way. Every little helps and if you go at this honestly 
and earnestly you will soon be out of debt. 
Naturally your thoughts turn first to corn, potatoes, cowpeas, the 
different hay and forage crops, etc., one or more pigs and the cow. 
That’s right, absolutely right. The pigs mean meat; milk is one 
of the best of foods, especially for the children and you cannot 
well have too much of it. Corn means meal for the family, grain 
for the working live stock. The same is true of other iteiiis. You 
know your needs as to amount of these grain, forage and other 
crops far better than we do and can act accordingly. 
If given a fair chance the home vegetable garden is the greatest, 
quickest and cheapest source of healthful food for the family and 
the surplus is available for canning or drying for winter use. In 
fact there are few places in the South where the garden cannot be 
made an all-the-year-round source of food supply. 
The right kind of a garden with suitable variety according to 
family likes, well prepared and well planted, kept worked and re- 
planted as fast as the earlier sorts mature and are used up, will go 
a long ways towards being half the living besides saving doctor’s 
and druggist bills. The garden should be the hardest worked 
piece of ground around the place and kept working for you every 
day in the year. 
Take your home garden seriously. Make a real, sure-enough gar- 
den, not one of these straggling excuses containing a few cabbages, 
a row of beans and fifty or sixty corn stalks that are so common. 
Two or three dollars’ worth of vital garden seeds, such as Hastings’ 
supplies, will produce a wonderful money saving, health saving 
supply of vegetables that will make a big hole in your store bill 
for food. 
It will soon be garden time. Get seeds now and have them on 
hand ready for the first favorable season for planting. 
Alphabetical Index 
Showing Page for Catalogue Reference 
Flower seeds are listed on pages 54-68. 
Summer Flowering Bulbs are listed on 
pages '78, 79, 80 and rear cover. 
Plants for the “Home Beautiful” are listed 
on pages 67-77. 
Insecticides and Fungicides, page 100. 
So far as possible, in making up this cata- 
log, we arranged the vegetables, flowers, 
bulbs, and plants in alphabetical order. 
Alfalfa Page 87 
Artichokes 5, 96 
Asparagus 5 
Bacteria, Soil Inoculation 101 
Beans, Garden 33. 5-9 
Beans, Mung 92-93 
Beans, Soy or Soja 91 
Beans, Velvet 95 
Beets 33,10-11 
Beggarweed 99 
Bene 99 
Broccoli 17 
Brussels Sprouts 17 
Buckwheat 98 
Bug Death 100 
Bulbs 78-80 
Cabbage, Seed and Plants 12-16 
Cane, Orange, Amber, Syrup 97 
Cantaloupe 19-21 
Carrots 18,33 
Cauliflower 16 
Celeriac 18 
Celery 18 
Chard, Swiss (Sea Kale) 11 
Chufas (Earth Almonds) 
Citron, Green Giant 
Clovers 
Collards 
Collections, General 
Corn, Broom, Milo Maize 
Corn, Kaffir 
Corn, Chicken 
Corn, Field 
Corn, Pop, Roasting Ear, Sw’eet 
Cos Lettuce, White Paris 
Cotton 
Cress 
Cucumbers 
Eggplant 
Endive 
Ferns 
Feterita 
Fetticus (Corn Salad) 
Flowers, Seeds, Plants, Bulbs.. 
Flowers, Live Plants 
Fungicides 
Gherkins 
Gourds 
Grasses 
Herbs — all kinds 
Honey Dew Melon 
Horseradish Roots 
Insecticides 
Kale (Borecole) 
Kohl Rabi 
Leeks 
Lespedeza (Japan Clover) 
Lettuce 
91 
31 
87 
17 
3 
99 
98 
98 
....84-86 
25 
27 
82-83 
17 
....22-24 
24 
17 
68, 69, 71 
98 
17 
....54-80 
....67-77 
100 
22 
24 
, . . .88, 89 
46 
21 
42 
100 
17 
24 
32 
87 
.26-27, 33 
Mangels, Stock and Sugar Beets 11 
Millet (Golden and Pearl) 99 
Mustard 32 
Okra 32 
Onion, Seed and Sets 34-37 
Parsley 46 
Parsnips 40 
Peanuts 96 
Peas, Garden or English 33,38-39 
Peas, Field or Cow 94 
Peppers 34,40-41 
Pe Tsai (Chinese Cabbage) 16 
Plants, Summer Flowering 67-77 
Potatoes, Irish 42 
Pumpkins 43 
Radish 34,44-45 
Rape 90 
Rice, Upland 99 
Rhubarb (Pie Plant) 42 
Roses Inside Back Cover, 76-77 
Rutabaga 53 
Salsify 46 
Seeder, or Hand Sower 100 
Sorghum (Cane) 97 
Southern Ruralist 81 
Spinach 47 
Squash 51 
Sunflower 63,99 
Teosinte 99 
Tobacco 94 
Tomato 34, 48-50 
Turnips 52-53 
Vines (See Plants) 69-77 
Watermelons Front Cover, 28-31 
This complete Catalog — all Beading Matter and Illustrations — Coi>yrighted, 1931, by H. G. Hastings Co., Atlanta, Ga. 
