II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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A WONDERFUL NEW CROP 
Get your start of this wonderful new crop, by all means, 
WONDERFUL SOIL BUILDING CROP 
How long: does it take them to mature? Early planted beans take 
i longer time than late planted. We find ripe pods on our plants in 
about 90 days from planting. The main crop will be ripe and ready 
to gather in from 100 to 120 days. If you have such a drouth as we 
had this year, 60 days without rain, the growth will be slow^ed up 
jomew-hat, and the crop delayed a little, but it is a quick growing 
and quick maturing plant. 
What sort of land do you plant them on? The land on our plan- 
tation is ordinary Middle Georgia cotton land, some grey sandy, 
some loamy, some plain Georgia red clay. Most of the open land 
has been cropped in cotton continuously for forty or fifty years, or 
had been until we bought it. We have planted Mung Beans on each 
of these different soils, also on first year new ground. It has done 
w’ell on all of them. We are wTlling to say this, that you can plant 
Mung Beans on any land where you w'ould expect to make any sort 
of a crop of corn, cotton, soy beans, velvet beans, cow'peas or sor- 
ghum. On moist bottom land, the Mungs make an enormous 
growTh, which is all right if you wmnt it, but hard to handle with a 
mow'er ; its chief value is for uplands. 
What sort of fertilizer should I use? Use what you have. We 
usually put a couple hundred pounds per acre of ordinary corn or 
cotton guano in the drill. We have used plain acid with good re- 
sults. On good land, you won’t need any fertilizer. Land which has 
had barn or stable manure will make a magnificent crop of Mungs. 
Do Mung Beans help the land? You bet your life they do. The 
roots are crowded with nitrogen nodules, and if you W'ant a crop 
to turn under for soil improvement, you can’t find one that will 
beat it. 
How about saving seed? We pick ours by hand. A machine for 
gathering Soy Beans will also gather Mungs, but so far we have 
gathered our seed crops by hand. After a day or so, a hand will pick 
as many pounds in the pod as he could cotton. The beans grow 
mostly at the top of the plants, and mature pretty much at the 
same time. They are ready to gather when the majority of the pods 
are dark brown or black. If left too long on the plant, the seed 
will shatter out. 
this year. *‘Acre (4 lb.) Package,” ^.75; postpaid. 
PLANT AN ACRE BY ALL MEANS 
What are the beans good for? They are good to eat, make the 
finest chicken feed you ever saAV, your neighbors will want to buy 
a lot of them for planting after they have seen your crop, and you 
will want to use a lot of them yourself for the same purpose. The 
yield of seed will vary a good deal, running from 500 to 1,000 
pounds per acre, according to the crop. 
How about making hay? Folks, if Mung Beans had a middle 
name, it would be spelled H-A-Y, Hay. As a hay crop, we nomi- 
nate Mung Beans for first and second choice. Reason for it is this ; 
The plants grow straight up and stay straight up, unless they have 
been planted on rich bottom land, in which case they would prob- 
ably lodge a good deal. Ordinarily they grow from 3 to 5 feet high, 
with no vines to tangle and choke the mower. They are easily cut, 
cure out easily and make hay that a mule, cow or horse will eat up 
clean. We believe there is less waste to Mung Beans hay than there 
is to first class peavine hay and that stock prefer it. 
Another thing, you can gather your crop of Mung Bean seed after 
it is ripe, and the plants will keep their leaves and stand for at 
least two weeks before being cut for hay without losing their fo- 
liage. Cut and cure the hay just as j’ou would Cowpeas. 
Can I get a Mung Bean crop off in time to plant Fall grain on 
the same land? You sure can. We grew crops of Mung Beans 
this past summer, picked the seed, cut and cured the hay, and had 
the land harrowed and planted in Oats by October 6th. And we 
did this, not on just a brag patch or two, but on twenty and thirty 
acre fields. With Mung BefTiis you can be practically sure of an 
early crop of first class hay, maturing and ready to make up dur- 
ing the dry weather of September, in time to turn or harrow your 
land and plant a crop of fall grain. 
PRICE ON MUNG BEANS — I Pounds (To Plant One Acre), 
$3.75; 1 Pound (Over 16,000 Seeds), $1.00; Postpaid. 
Note! Ask for our Hastings’ Mung Bean Circular. It tells more 
about this “Wonderful New Crop”. For Mung Bean cultures or 
soil bacteria, see yellow sheet opposite Page 100. 
Mung Beans — Waist High and Still Growing. Planted in SYs Foot Rows on Badly Worn Cotton Land 
