II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
HASTINGS' PROLIFIC CORN 
Now almost everybody knows that Hastings’ Prolific holds more high yield per acre 
records than any other variety planted in the United States, these going all the way up 
to the 214 bushels and 40 pounds made by Ben Leath, of Walker County, Georgia, and 
the 214 bushels and 51 pounds made by J. Jones Polk, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. 
We could fill this entire cataiog with Boys’ Corn Club prize yieid records from every 
Southern state made during the past eight or nine years. We could go into detail show- 
ing particulars of how Hastings’ Prolific won highest honors in Georgia seven years out 
of eight, etc. 
The host of imitations cropping up each year under the names of Smith’s or .Tones’ or 
Brown’s Prolific, etc., are direct evidence of the popuiarity and value of Hastings’ Pro- 
lific, easily and by far the leader of them all. 
It has “made good’’ on the poorer grades of sandy soil as well as the rich river bottoms, 
on the red clay hills of the Piedmont section of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas, on 
the “black waxy” lands of Texas, and on the Mississippi delta. Hastings’ Prolific has a 
good reputation and deservediy so. 
Hastings’ Prolific requires a fairly long season to develop hard 
W9«#ri|J4lvll corn, 120 to 1-30 days. Stalk is large, 8 to 12 feet tall, according 
to soil and season, rooting deepiy. Staik and blades are large and vigorous. Ears of 
medium size, two or more to the stalk, depending on the distance given and the growing 
conditions. On good, strong land where the corn has distance of 24 to 30 inches in the 
row, it often makes 4 to 6 ears to a stalk. The ears are well filled out and weigh from 
8 to 12 ounces. The grains are deep, white and hard. The cob is smail. Seventy pounds 
of ear corn will usually shell out 61 to 63 pounds of grain. Shuck is heavy and covers 
the ear tightly, keeping out birds and insects and preventing loss in iate, wet seasons, 
when other corn rots badiy on account of storm injury. The best corn for grain pro- 
duction, for roasting ears, for making meal, and for stock feeding. 
BUY YOUR SEED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES 
There is only one safe place to buy Hastings’ Prolific and that is from Hastings. It’s 
impossible to keep seed corn pure when grown on small farms. By owning and controll- 
ing thousands of acres our corn crops are isolated sufficiently to practically insure 
purity. Besides, we are constantly at work breeding Hastings’ Prolific. Our seed this 
year is fully 25 per cent better and more prolific and productive than that of four years 
ago. Send to headquarters and be sure of what you plant. 
Prices of Hastings’ Proiific, Prize-Winning Seed 
Packet, 10 cents; 1 pound, 30 cents; 2 pounds, 50 cents; postpaid. By express or freight, 
not prepaid, 14 pounds (peck), $1.25; 56 pounds (bu.), $4.00; 112 pounds (2 bus.), $7. '15. 
Hastings’ Big Rockdaie Corn 
FNo Idl ^ bottom lands in the Central South, for the black waxy lands of Texas, 
^liUi l*rif fQj. ttie delta lands of Louisiana and Mississippi and any rich of highly 
fertilized uplands there is no big-eared corn that equals Hastings’ Rockdale. 
We are mighty well acquainted with Rockdale Corn. It’s a Georgia variety and we 
have grown it and sold it since 1897. It's a thoroughbred, the best of all the big-eared 
Southern field corns for main crop. Our iliustration is a little over half its natural size 
and shows well the general appearance of the ears. Very flinty fur a dent corn, medium 
early for main crop; cob smail and white, with iung siightly dented, deep white grains. 
Occasionally a slightly red cob is found in it, but this is seldom. Ears very large, 10 to 
13 inches long, and weigh 1 to 1% pounds each. One Texas grower reported 2\(> pound 
ears. Fine for meal and for an all-round general purpose main crop corn with big ears 
it’s unexcelled. This is the best big-eared corn you can plant. Literally thousands of 
testimonials, from every section and locality of the South, say with us that it is the 
very best big-eared Corn. 
Prices On Rockdale Corn 
Packet, 10 cents; pound, 30 cents; 2 pounds, 
50 cents; postpaid. 14 pounds (peck), $1.25; 
by express or freight, not prepaid; 56 pounds (bushel), $4.00. 
FarlwlAIhltA nAtlt/lln Favorite white variety for early crop in the 
wwlllW? South. First ready of those producing large 
ears. One to two ears per stalk; fine for “roasting” ears. Packet, lOc; pound, 30c; 2 
pounds, 50c; postpaid. Not prepaid: 14 lbs. (peck), $1.00; 56 lbs. (bushel), $3.50. 
Improved Golden Dent (Georgia Grown) (No. 144) 
Practically all seed of Golden Dent Corn offered in the South either by seedsmen or local 
merchants is Northern grown and not acclimated, so, seldom makes good in the crop. 
Ours is different. Our specially grown Georgia raised seed of Golden Dent will please 
you and make you a sure crop for early use. It has been the standard yellow variety 
for planting in the South in recent years; a spiendid medium early yellow field corn. 
Large ears, with small red cob and large grains of deep yeilow color. A strong grower, 
standing up against hot dry weather remarkabiy weil for a corn of its class. It matures 
hard corn for feeding in 110 to 115 days, the grain being rich in feeding value; also good 
for roasting ears. The improved Golden Dent is a valuable yellow corn for early plant- 
ing in the South and you cannot make a mistake in planting it. In the past our South- 
ern farmers have preferred the white corns to plant and raise and white corn has been 
grown almost exclusively in the South. Many farmers know, however, that all kinds of 
stock prefer the yellow corn and will leave the white for yellow because of its rich but- 
tery flavor and perhaps because the yellow is easier digested. Agricultural chemists be- 
lieve they have found a relation between the fat-soluble vitamine (for quick and easy 
digestion) and the yellow plant pigments, such as found in yellow corn and is not 
present in white corn. Whether this is true or not remains to be proven, but we know 
that stock prefers yellow corn in the South as well as North and we should grow some 
at least for the needs on our owm farms. Improved Golden Dent being the very best 
Southern variety. Packet, 10 cents; pound, 30 cents; 2 pounds, 50 cents; postpaid. Not 
prepaid: 14 pounds (peck), $1.25; 56 pounds (bushel), $4.00. 
