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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastingrs’ Pure and Genuine Sudan Grass 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE (No. 400) 
For spring, tall or winter planting for quick green forage or grazing for 
hogs and poultry, there is nothing equal to Dwarf Essex Rape. While most 
largely planted in fall and early winter one or two plantings in the spring 
should not be passed by. It makes a quick succulent growth that will be 
liked by all two and four-legged animals on the place. If once used on the 
table as a substitute for “turnip greens’’ you will be far more anxious to 
have a “rape patch” than a “turnip green patch”. 
The tops look like rutabagas and growth is similar yet larger. Rape 
makes no bulbous roots. Can be planted in rows like turnips, 4 pounds per 
acre, or broadcasted 8 to 10 pounds per acre, covering by a light harrowing. 
Ready for grazing in 8 to 10 weeks. 
Dwarf Essex Rape in its top growth looks very much like rutabaga tur- 
nips, but does not form .a bulbous root, it can be sown with fine results 
any month from August to April. According to soil and season, rape grows 
from 15 to 30 inches high. It is a splendid green feed and forage crop rel- 
ished by all kinds of stock but is principally planted for hogs and poultry. 
It makes an exceptionally fine hog pasture, is also excellent for sheep, all 
sorts of stock eating it greedily, and it puts and keeps them in fine condi- 
tion. At one of the Experiment Stations an acre of rape was_ used to pasture 
20 hogs for three months in connection with a small grain ration at the 
same time. 
It’s valuable not only for pasture but green feeding. It can be grown 
successfully and profitably on any soil that will make a crop of turnips or 
rutabagas, and in case your turnip greens or spinach patch runs short, you 
will find a mess of greens from the rape patch a mighty good substitute on 
your table. 
In Georgia alone there are a million more hogs than four years ago. Poul- 
try is coming forward by leaps and bounds, many farmers with no cotton 
or cash crop money being mighty thankful for chicken money and chickens 
to eat last summer. Hogs and chickens need pasture and rape pasture is 
excellent, seed planted in early spring or fall. 
Pound, postpaid, 30 cents; 10-pound lots, 16 cents a pound; 100 pounds, 
about 14 cents per pound. AVrite for quantity prices. 
Plant Dwarf Essex Rape for Feeds and Food 
THE SUDAN GRASS 
/Nn This new grass was brought to the United States from 
Egypt in 1909. It was first planted in an experimental 
way in Texas, then the seed distributed to various Experiment Sta- 
tions with remarkably successful results. We can best describe it 
by saying that it has all the good qualities of Johnson Grass with 
a lot more of its own added, and while it looks like an extra tall- 
growing strain of Johnson Grass it has not a single bad quality of 
Johnson Grass, such as the creeping underground root stocks. Sudan 
is an annual grass requiring reseeding every year. It can no more 
become a pest on your farm than can sorghum or coAvpeas. Once 
killing frost comes it is dead and another seeding is necessary the 
next year. It easily crosses with sorghum and for that reason there 
is little pure or nearly pure seed of it, most of it having been grown 
near enough to sorghum to cross and be impure. You are sure to get 
Genuine Sudan Grass seed from Hastings’. With us, planted in rows 
for seed, it grew from 6 to 7 feet high. Sown broadcast for hay crop 
growth was about 4 feet high, furnishing two heavy cuttings, and 
with the seasons favorable a third one is obtained. Four tons of 
dried hay per acre will not be an exceptional yield here in the South- 
east. Easily cured and should be cut Avhen first coming into bloom. 
Hay is much softer than Johnson Grass, stems being much more 
slender and leafy. In feeding value it ranks high in comparison with 
other hays and will go far in providing a much more satisfactory 
and easily handled cured hay than sorghum and peas. Sudan Grass 
is a Avonder in its “stooling out” qualities and we certainly expect 
to see the time come when it aauII supersede the different varieties of 
sorghum for hay and forage crops in the South. It is certainly far 
superior to them. For hay crop, soav Sudan Grass broadcast at rate 
of 15 to 20 pounds per acre, E'er growing a seed crop for your own 
future use, plant thinly in roAvs 18 inches apart, using 5 to 6 pounds 
of seed per acre. Plant at least a small quantity of Sudan Grass this 
year as soon as danger from frost is pa^t, for if you want a satisfac- 
tory hay plant for the Cotton Belt or even as far North as Ohio you 
can get nothing so productiA-e. Be careful in buying Sudan Grass. 
Many samples AA^e have seen contain Johnson Grass seed; others are 
Sudan-Sorghum crosses. Price: % pound, 15c; pound, 35c; postpaid. 
Not prepaid, 10 pounds at 15 cents per pound; 100-pound lots at 12 
cents per pound. Prices subject to change Avithout notice. AVrite 
for prices. 
MUNG BEANS RESIST WILT 
“My Mung beans AA^ere planted rather late, but each plant ma- 
tured beans and not a single plant had Avilt. You can tell your 
customers that the Mung Bean is Avilt-proof”. — Stiles Scott, 
Macon, Ga. 
Note! Mr. Scott is one of the best farmers of middle Georgia 
and his section is so Avilt infested that coAvpeas cannot be grown. 
If you liA'e in a AA-ilt district, and can’t grow coAvpeas, plant Mungs. 
