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II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
HASTINGS’ M 
Mung Beans in Corn — Hastings’ Plantation 
A SUCCESS ALL OVER THE SOUTH 
Last spring we offered to our customers for the first time, seed 
of the Hastings’ Mung Beans, which we described in our catalog as 
a “wonderful new crop”, recommending it as highly as we thought 
we could and still be perfectly truthful and avoid extravagant claims. 
When it comes to our Mung Beans, we stand right where we did 
last spring, that this bean is just what we claimed for it, a wonder- 
ful new crop for Southern farms and farmers. And several thou- 
sands of our 1921 customers, if we can judge from the letters we are 
receiving, are standing with us flatfooted on the same platform. 
We are getting many letters and inquiries from folks who have 
either heard about the Mung Bean, or have seen it growing, who 
want to know more about it. It was a daily occurrence, all last 
summer, for automobiles passing along the Dixie Highway which 
runs through our plantation, to stop, and the occupants to get out 
and examine our crops of Mung Beans. We were mighty glad to 
have them do this, too. After looking at the wonderful growth of 
the beans, and asking questions as to the merits and uses of the 
crop, the usual verdict was, “Well, that’s the finest looking hay and 
forage crop I’ve ever seen; I’m sure going to try Mung Beans on 
my farm next year”. 
We want to bring out as clearly as we can, some of the strong 
points about this new bean, and answer in advance the questions 
that you would be likely to ask about any new crop of this sort 
before you tried it out yourself. In the first place, you’d be pretty 
sure to ask if it was hard to “get a stand”. 
UNG BEANS 
Mung Beans — Note Upright Growth and Prolific Qualities 
BEATS ANYTHING GETTING STAND 
When it comes to getting a stand, Mung Beans will beat anything 
except crab grass and cockle burrs. If the grou.-d has moisture 
enough to bring up the seed, it will come up so quick that you will 
hardly belieVe your eyesight. If you plant in dry dusty soil, a few 
beans will come up as a sort of an advance guard; the rest will 
stay in the ground and wait for a shower, and when it comes, even 
though it is hardly enough for water to run off a tin roof, you will 
be surprised to see the number of beans t at will come, and when 
you get a real rain, all the balance will show up and the whole 
stand will grow off together and mature at practically the same date. 
Mung Beans will come up to a stand under conditions of soil and 
weather that would be deadly to Soy Beans or Cowpeas. 
How much seed does it take for an acre? We sold the seed last 
spring in five ounce packages, and some of our customers, by drop- 
ping the seed carefully by hand, planted nearly an acre of land 
with one package. If you plant in foot rows, as we usually do, 
using a Sorghum planting plate in a seed drill, you will use from 
3 to 5 pounds per acre. Plant the same distance in the drill that 
you would plant Speckled Peas. If the stand is crowded, plants are 
taller and not so much branched ; a thin stand will grow a bunchler 
plant and a heavier seeder. 
When is the best time to plant? If you are going to turn the 
crop under to build up the land or cut it for hay, plant In May for 
latitude of Middle Georgia. If you plant in June or early July, 
you will not get as large a plant, but the yield of seed will be 
heavier. 
“According to our observation, the Mung Bean has been more resistant to drouth than the Soy Bean. We consider it better for 
soil improvement and hay than the Soy Bean. We have also observed plantings by farmers of the State, and everyone seems to be 
much interested in the crop. We feel that there will be a much larger amount of these beans planted next year”. — K. Y. Winters, 
Plant Breeding Agronomist of the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, N. C. 
“I tried out the Mung Beans and find that they are all you claim as to ease of growth, immense amount of foraga and enormous 
yield of beans”.— G. W. Carver, Research and Experiment Station, Tuskege© Institute, Ala. 
“The Mung Beans that I got from you are the finest things that I ever saw grow. They are now shoulder high. We wouldn’t take 
$50.00 for the start we have of them, if we could get no more”. — T. M. Mason, Waldron, Ark. 
