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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC CORN (No. 140) 
Hastings’ Prolific, Finest in Quaiity 
A Wonderfui Producer of Grain and 
Forage— The Prize- Winning Corn 
of the South for You to Piant 
No man in the South that we know of ever got into trouble by having too much corn, the 
product of his own acres, with too many hogs to finish off on corn. 
We have never heard 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 thou- 
sands of financial wrecks from the farms who went “broke” trying to grow all cotton or near- 
ly all cotton and depending on that cotton to pay store bills for corn and foodstuffs that 
could have been made on those home acres at from one-third to one-half the merchants’ price. 
Cotton may or may not go higher. It certainly wmn’t if we plant as near up to “the grave- 
yard” as we have and nature favors a good yield. The price may be high or it may be low 
but the fellow who is hit is the one that has to pay for corn and other food and grain. 
High corn prices hurt and hurt only the man who has corn to buy. The “bears” and an 
extra large corn and grain year with “tight banking” can pull prices down for a while but he 
Avho 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. 
The National Hog and Cattle Show at the great Southeastern Fair at Atlanta last fall, the 
second largest in the world, along with the Boys’ Corn Club Show, surely made hundreds of 
Southern farmers stop to think Avhat they might have done instead of letting the boll weevil 
eat up their cotton crops last summer and fall. Those farmers and other up-to-date farmers 
Avill plant corn this year as they never did before and they will rotate their crops and build 
up their land as they never have before. 
Labor has been scarce and high and everything the farmer buys in town has been just that 
high too. Labor is fairly cheap again now and the farmer who will make the money on this 
opportunity will be the one who raises absolutely everything possible that’s needed on his 
place and then sells his cash crop for cash. It’s the only safe way. 
It’s hard to find a farmer in the South who hasn’t heard of Hastings’ Prolific favorably. 
They all know it’s a corn of fine reputation, not a reputation gained by advertising but a rep- 
utation gained by “making good” in every county of very state in the South. It’s the top-of- 
the-list variety no matter Avhether it be in prize contests or whether it be in the field of the 
smallest tenant farmer. It is THE Upland Corn to plant anywhere in the South and you can 
depend on it to make good for you. 
