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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Orchard Grass 
GROW MORE GOOD GRASS 
We of the South spend most of the summer killing grass in our cotton and corn fields and 
spend most of the winter buying grass in the shape of hay. 
No farming country can be permanently prosperous without grass and live stock, and you can’t 
K stock without grass-growing. It’s certainly time for the South to do more thinking 
about the “Grass Crop”, and see it as something to be grown, not “killed”. See Page 2. 
reliable grasses for the Middle South for 
”*^^*"*** ^ jjj^y Qj. pasture. While succeeding well on almost all rea- 
sonably fertile soils it does best on loamy and moderately stiff uplands. Starts growth very early 
in the spring and continues well into the winter. A quick grower and relished by stock, espe- 
cially when young, and bears closest grazing. No other grass so easily adapts itself to widely 
different soils and climates, and farmers in all countries hold it in high esteem for both pas- 
tures and hay crops. It is very easily handled and cured for hay. It is a long-lived grass, with 
half a chance lasting under good treatment thirty to forty years ; yet it is easily exterminated 
if the land is wanted for other purposes. Sow about 45 pounds per acre in either spring or fall, 
and cut when in bloom. Present prices: Pound, postpaid, 40 cents. Write for our best quantity- 
prices when ready to buy. 
InhneAn While considered a pest in many parts of the South, it is 
JVIIliauil API <199 ^nui Utf I f coming to be recognized as one of our most valuable 
hay and forage plants. In places where its growth can be controlled and kept from spreading 
into cultivated fields there is no other grass that makes such enormous yields of hay. It should 
be cut or mowed just when seed heads begin to form, and furnishes about three cuttings per 
season. There is a great demand for the hay, as it is eagerly relished by all classes of stock, and 
especially horses. The seed may be planted in early spring or early fall and at the rate of 50 
pounds per acre will give you permanent summer pasture and hay crop forever. It is very hardy 
and no matter how close it is grazed it will grow and make an excellent quality of hay on most 
any kind of soil. Pound, postpaid, 40 cents. Write for quantity prices when ready to buy. 
TimA^hv^NA ^ grass suitable only for the northern part of the South, espe- 
I iniOmy ^ lllli Cially hill and mountain districts. It is the standard hay crop in 
the North and makes one of the most popular, nutritious, and salable of hay grasses. It does 
not make such good pasturage, but the hay crop is great where it is well adapted ; on clay or 
heavy loams, lowlands, or in mountain districts, although it will do well on any good, stiff loamy 
soil, provided moisture is abundant. “Red Top or Herd’s Grass” and “Meadow Fescue” mature 
at the same time as Timothy and do well in mixtures with the Timothy. They will increase the 
yield of hay and will largely increase the yield and value of pasturage. Pound, 99% purity or 
over, postpaid, 35 cents. In quantity, not prepaid, about 15 cents per pound. Write for prices. 
Rliitt firaee/llA excellent laAAm and pasturage grass, sue-. 
B^emUCKy Diue ooo; ceedlng best on limestone land, but does well on 
stiff clay and medium soils. Blue Grass in pastures doesn’t show up materially the first year after 
seeding, but if the soil is suitable it continues to improve until you have a beautiful stand. Hard- 
ly anyone needs to be told the merits of Blue Grass. It has been a standby for years and years, 
although many do not plant it who should. Our “Elmwood Fancy” is the very best to be had. 
It’s pure and clean; free from weeds and chaff. We make a specialty of Blue Grass for extensive 
lawn work here in Atlanta, where everything depends on having pure, vital seed, free from weeds. 
Here it remains almost dormant during the hot weather, and its chief value in pasture seeding is 
for mixing with Bermuda, Lespedeza, and other summer-growing varieties. For spring planting 
sow in February and March. Sow about 40 pounds per acre. Fancy recleaned seed. Pound, post- 
paid, 75 cents. In quantity, not prep aid, about 60 cents per pound. Write for prices. 
EAST COAST OR RHODES GRASS 
/Ma Introduced into Florida from Australia about 1909 this grass has made a wonder- 
0^0/ ful success on both the east and west coast sections of Florida, at many points 
along the Gulf Coast in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana as well as the Texas Coast country. 
In what is generally termed the “Brownsville section” of Texas it is now almost as much of a 
standard hay crop as alfalfa. Experimental plantings in southwest Texas, at Mercedes in the 
Brownsville section, made good right from the start and it’s now recognized as a standard and one 
of the most profitable crops grown in that part of Texas. One of our customers in Texas reported 
the interesting fact that stock turned in a field to pasture where both alfalfa and Rhodes Grass 
■were growing would not touch the alfalfa once they had got a taste of the Rhodes Grass. 
Rhodes Grass is apparently not hardy in the cen- 
tral South for it has winter killed in sections 
over 50 or 60 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. For 
all of Florida, a strip along the Gulf 50 to 60 miles 
wide, and in Texas south of San Antonio we rec- 
ommend it unreservedly. Plant about ten pounds 
per acre. 
12 Tons Hay Per Acre Per Year is a great record 
yet it’s the result of careful test growth of it at 
Fellsrnere, St. Lucie Co., Florida, where the long 
growing season gives more cuttings than elsewhere. 
The hay is of fine quality grading up almost 
equal to timothy. It is not coarse and has nothing 
of a pest nature about it. A thorough plowing 
kills it out. If you live inside the limits set above, 
we certainly advise a trial of it. 
Special Rhodes Grass Circular 
If interested ask for our special circular on 
Rhodes Grass, which goes into this subject more 
fully than is possible for this catalog. 
Mr. R. E. Evans writes : “I bought seed of you 
last spring for ten acres. It has proven the most 
satisfactory hay maker ever introduced in the Lower 
Rio Grande Valley. You have received several or- 
ders from those who inspected my crop. It has 
not failed to produce one ton per acre per month. 
I will sow it in my alfalfa field so that it will soon 
choke out the alfalfa and the field will consist of 
Rhodes Grass only. It is a weed exterminator.” 
Quarter pound packet, 25 cents; 
■^■■VC9 pound, 75 cents; postpaid. Not pre- 
paid, 10-pound lots, about 55 cents per pound. 
Write lor special prices on large quantities. 
Hauling in Rhodes Grass Hay (St. Lucie County, Florida) 
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