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II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
OUR ^^BANK ACCOUNT" COTTON 
OUR EARLIEST EXTRA EARLY, EXTRA PROLIFIC COTTON 
This was the fourth distinct variety of cotton introduced by us, and in all respects for an extra early cotton it is the best The re- 
sult of fourteen years’ close breeding and selection for an extra early prolific type. The illustration on the next page, reproduced from 
a photograph of a single stalk, shows what “Bank Account” does under good cultivation. 
“Bank Account’’ is not a chance variety. It has been bred with a distinct purpose in view. We wanted the earliest cotton we could 
get; a prolific cotton that would come up in yield to the later sorts; reasonably storm-proof and produce a quality of lint that would 
sell at top-of-the-market prices. It’s an absolutely safe variety of cotton for boll weevil and short growing season districts where 
quick growth and maturity count above all else. It’s the safe extra early variety of cotton to plant. It has deep rooting character- 
istics that enable it to resist drought remarkably well for an early cotton. 
It’s our honest and candid opinion that our improved “Bank Account” is the best extra earlv cotton ever oiTerefl 
Gets Ahead of the Boll Weevil 
cotton to get ahead of the boll weevil. It makes a good crop before 
the boll weevil has a chance to get in his work, and for this rea- 
son the “Bank Account” cotton is worth millions upon millions of 
dollars to the cotton growers in boll weevil sections. Every year 
the weevil moves North and East. If you are already in a boll 
weevil section you need this variety. It opens earlier than other 
extra earlies, and it doesn’t blow out or drop out as quickly. It's 
a heavier bearer and makes better and longer lint. It roots deeply, 
resisting both drought and storms. It branches well and has light 
open foliage, lefting in the sun perfectly to all parts of the plant. 
It doesn’t have dense shade for Mr. Boll Weevil to hide away in. 
This gets you in ahead of the boll weevil in boll weevil sections, 
and in any section it enables you to market long before any other 
variety is ready. You must plant the earliest possible cotton and 
work it well to get ahead of the weevil. 
An All- Purnose Cotton tmthfuiiy said 
J^ll mil I'UriJUde ^^ere is no one variety 
of cotton best for all sections, all lands and all seasons, but our 
“Bank Account” cotton will come nearer being an all-purpose cot- 
ton for all sections than anything we have ever seen. We have tried 
it under all sorts of soil conditions from Middle Georgia to the 
Tennessee line, in uplands and in bottoms, and it has “made good” 
everywhere it has been planted. It possesses a vigor that enables 
it to go on and make a fair crop when other varieties have died 
out completely from droughts. It is an easy cotton to get a stand 
and it is a cotton that turns out well. As an average under fair 
conditions it has turned out for us about forty per cent lint. The 
bolls are rather tough and even where the weevils try to puncture 
them it is remarkable how the bolls open up and produce good 
cotton. 
Bale or More Per Acre in the Boll Weevil District 
Louisiana has probably suffered more from the boll weevil than 
any of the other states. Read the following from one of our cus- 
tomers writing to the Southern Ruralist. E. E. Robinson, DeSoto 
Parish, La., wrote: “Before the boll weevil came our land would 
yield one-half bale per acre of common cotton. The first year they 
came we made 2 bales on 15 acres. We quit raising it for two years. 
Last year we planted 15 acres again, 13 acres in big boll cotton, 
from which we gathered four bales; 2 acres in ‘New Bank Account’ 
Cotton which we bought from H. G. Hastings Co. We made 2 
bales from those 2 acres regardless of Mr. Weevil.” That tells the 
story exactly. Bank Account makes a good crop before the weevil 
can destroy it. Bank Account fruits faster than boll weevils breed. 
A couple years ago we took a list of several hundred buyers of 
our Bank Account Cotton and asked each buyer to tell us frankly 
of his experience with this variety. If there was anything wrong 
with it, we wanted to know from others’ experience and we wanted 
to know just what it was doing in every section of every Southern 
State as well as on our own farms. From hundreds of reports sent 
to us after a season of the worst rains imaginable and boll weevils 
rampant, 94% of this list sending in experiences with “Bank Ac- 
count” were very enthusiastic over the variety and how it helps 
them make cotton farming pay. 4% of the reporters said they were 
satisfied with their results from planting “Bank Account” but 
didn’t go into detail regarding their success with it. 1% said it 
was too early to report and forgot to report later. Two said they 
were drowned out and didn’t replant. One man said it wouldn’t do. 
Frankly, we were surprised at these reports. We had no idea 
that 94% of our customers planting this cotton would say, and es- 
pecially after a generally bad season, that it was the “best cotton I 
ever saw”, “it beats all others”, “I have by far the best cotton in 
this section”, “My neighbors all want seed”, etc. We didn’t expect 
98% would be thoroughly satisfied with results. We thought more 
than one man would say that “it wouldn’t do”, for so many things 
enter into the success of a crop that we dislike to make extrava- 
gant claims for anything we sell, no matter how well it has done 
for us. All these generally satisfactory results obtained in every 
section of every cotton growing State make us believe in “Bank Ac- 
count” mighty firmly, however, and that is why we recommend it to 
you. We have faith in it ; we plant it for our own cotton crops on the 
Hastings’ Plantation because it has done better for us than all 
other varieties. We believe likewise that it will be profitable for 
you to plant. 
A HIGH PER CENT 
Changing Cotton Seed This Year? 
Thousands of cotton growers will want to “change seed” this 
year. The boll weevil has made a tremendous advance since last 
spring, and many of our customers have found that the old vari- 
ety of cotton that they have been growing successfully, will not do 
under weevil conditions. They realize that they must have a 
quicker fruiting, earlier fruiting variety. 
Last year, in our Atlanta section, and over most of Georgia and 
South Carolina, the weevil hit us heavily for the first time. Whole 
fields were devastated and there was almost a “give up” spirit among 
the cotton farmers. From our observations and from reports, our 
Bank Account Cotton stood this trying test by far better than other 
varieties. Farms around the Hastings’ Plantation with other va- 
rieties didn’t ni.ake enough to try to pick. On one field we only 
found two bolls in the ten-acre patch, while on the Hastings’ Plan- 
tation we made an ordinary average crop. 
Bank Account Cotton, of our improved type, does not fruit all 
at once and then quit, as some extra early varieties do ; it begins 
fruiting low on the plant, and keeps growing and fruiting through- 
out its period of growth. Anyone who has had experience in grow- 
ing cotton under weevil conditions knows that this is a mighty 
important thing. Early in the season, when the weevils are scarce, 
every day that the cotton is fruiting and putting on squares, it is 
gaining that much on the weevil, and if it has been properly fer- 
tilized and is worked right, it gets a good crop on the plant before 
the weevil catches up with it and begins taking all squares as 
soon as they show up, which is what happens late in the summer, 
from early August on. 
We believe fully that farmers throughout the middle South can 
make cotton under weevil conditions, if they go at it right. One 
of the “rightest” things you can do is to plant our Bank Account 
Cotton, of this improved type that we are offering this year. It 
certainly will pay you to change your seed. You may have a good 
cotton, and you may hate to give it up, and you may decide to 
risk it one more year anyhow. All right, you can take the chance 
if you wish to, but remember, the boll weevil is no respecter of 
your opinion, and if your pet cotton fits in exactly with his needs, 
he will take your crop and not even say thank you. 
Therefore, we want to say most earnestly to our friends and cus- 
tomers, from our own experience, plant our improved type of Bank 
Account Cotton, if you are in boll weevil territory now, or think 
that you will be during the summer of this year. 
LINTING COTTON 
Fourteen years is a pretty fair test on what cotton will do. Every year its heavy per cent of lint is a surprise to those who plant it. 
In the fourteen years we grew it the test crops have never averaged less than 40 and two years as high as 43 per cent of lint. 
ErAM Onlrl Rnttnm LanHe There are hundreds of thousands of acres of cold bottom lands that are risky to plant in cotton, 
r VI vviu BVAAVIII kdiius Plantings on this sort of land are necessarily late and much of the time the crop is lost because 
the bolls won’t open. “Bank Account” cotton is just the right variety to make a perfectly safe crop on bottom lands. Its naturally open 
growth and light foliage lets the sun in and the cotton opens just as well as it does on the uplands. We had a field planted on cold bot- 
tom land in North Georgia. It made a fine crop from May 26th planting and killing frost on October 13th, and it opened.-perfectly. 
“Bank Account” Cotton, pound, postpaid, 85 cents; 8 pounds, postpaid, $1.00. Not prepaid: 10 pounds, $1.00; 80 pounds 
■ (Georgia legal bushel), $8.50; one hundred pounds, $7.50. 10 bushels or over, $2.25 per bushel. 
