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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Type of Hastings’ Valencia Peanuts 
Tuber of Jerusalem Artichoke 
HASTINGS’ MUNG BEANS 
Do you know what they are? Do you know that this wonderful new forage, 
grain and soil-building crop was planted by 18,000 planters last year for the first 
time and that they have found the Mung Bean not only successful all over the 
South but have proven it far superior to cowpeas, soy beans, velvet beans and 
other such crops? 
Hastings’ Mung Beans should be planted on eVery farna in the South this 
spring and summer. You can’t afford to be Without Mung Beans, and although 
a new crop and the seed handpicked, hulled and recleane^ they are cheap. $3.75 
worth of Hastings’ Mung Beans easily plants an acre and gives you a good start 
of this Wonderful New Crop. See Pages 92 and 93. 
Plant Plenty of Peanuts 
The peanut as a “cash” crop and as a feeding and fattening crop is coming into 
its own. In many parts of the South it has long been looked on as desirable to have 
a small peanut patch for the hogs to run on for fattening and possibly a few over 
for the children to “parch”. 
Now the peanut has become a full man-sized crop with hundreds of thousands of 
acres under cultivation both for hog feeding and in many sections for sale direct to 
oil mills for the manufacture of peanut oil and meal. 
Peanuts ought to be a regular crop on every Southern farm that has sandy, light 
clay or loose loam soils. Every part of the crop is of use. The tops make splendid 
hay or forage, the nuts are valuable either for feed or for sale to the oil mills, most 
of which will contract in advance for your crop. You can trade with them and get 
back the meal for feed just as you would trade cotton seed for cottonseed meal. 
Last, but not least, the peanut is one of the leguminous plants that draw that 
most costly element of plant food, nitrogen, from the air, depositing it in your soil 
for the use of future crops. 
The peanut as a real crop has come to the Cotton Belt to stay. If you fail to plant 
peanuts plentifully it’s your loss. The Spanish Peanut (two varieties) is early and a 
heavy bearer. In Florida and along the Gulf Coast where they can be planted as early 
as April and as late as July 15th, two crops can be made. Plant from 1 to 2 bushels 
per acre, the Spanish or bush sorts thicker or closer than the running varieties.- 
Just a word. You may desire some of the improved varieties such as are offered 
below. You may not feel able to pay the price for quantity sufficient for your acre- 
age. Send in your order for one or three pounds or more, plant in well prepared 
ground and grow your seed for large acreage next year. 
Hastings’ Improved Spanish(No. 579) ?„'’ti?„a'?eVh'af’’been 
bred for the purpose of increasing the size somewhat and the number of kernels per 
hull to three to a marked degree, yet keeping the fine quality and productiveness of 
the standard Spanish peanut. ()ur grower has established this sort and has ob- 
tained better yields than with any other variety. It is especially adapted to sandy 
lands and shows remarkably few “pops” in the crops. Best recleaned, hand-picked 
seed stock. Pound, 40 cents; 3 lbs., $1.00; postpaid. Write for quantity prices. 
Snanieh Poanill'/'Nfl \ ^ variety 
9|Jai1l9n r vaBlUt ^ lllli uO I / for a forage and fattening crop in the South. 
An early, heavy bearer; bushes growing close, so, very easily cultivated. Grains or 
nuts are smaller, but much sweeter and finer flavored and much more free from 
“pops” than the larger sorts. Best recleaned seed stock. Pound, 30 cents; 4 pounds, 
$1.00; postpaid. Quantity lots, not prepaid, about 12 cents per pound. Write for 
best prices when ready to buy. 
North Carolina Running Peanut(No. 580) ^aTbee^ 
creased planting of the running varieties of peanuts. The best and surest cropper 
in the Central and Lower South is the “North Carolina”. Nuts somewhat larger 
than the Spanish, easily grown, and nuts fill out nicely with very few “pops” for a 
running variety. Finest recleaned seed stock. Pound, 30 cents; 4 pounds, $1.00; 
postpaid. Quantity lots, not prepaid, about 12 cents per pound. Write for our very 
best prices on amount you want when ready to buy. 
Improved Valencia Peanut(No. 578) 
peanut adapted to our section and yet larger in size with a greater number of nuts or 
kernels than in the generality of varieties planted in the South. The Improved 
Valencia coming originally from Spain fills the requirements exactly and has proven 
through several years’ test its full adaptability to our growing conditions. A most 
productive and desirable variety, a distinct improvement in appearance over any va- 
riety in general use. Pods are large, close and well filled, containing 3 to 4 nuts or 
kernels in each pod. Of very mild, sweet, enjoyable flavor. Their handsome apppear- 
ance makes storekeepers, or any one wanting them for ordinary commercial pur- 
poses, buy them on sight. 
The Valencia is well worth a trial on your farm. Home Grown Seed, pound, 40c; 
3 pounds, $1.00; postpaid. Quantity lots, not prepaid, about 20 cents per pound. 
Write for quantity prices when ready to buy. 
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES 
^Nn Southern farmer who grows hogs and does not grow Jerusalem Ar- 
^nui j tichokes is neglecting a most important hog-food crop. It is a most val- 
uable food for hogs, fattening them quickly, and it is said by many hog raisers that 
a hog fed on artichokes has never been known to have cholera. They are fully 
adapted to Southern plantings, growing and increasing through the entire season. 
They are grown from tubers, the same as Irish potatoes. It requires 300 pounds to 
plant an acre. On very rich land they have produced nearly 1000 bushels per acre. 
Turn the hogs into the field and they will harvest them. Plant in March and April 
in rows 3 feet apart, dropping seed every 2 feet in the row. Let grow until fall. 
Hogs will be delighted to harvest them all through the winter. Pound, postpaid, 
25 cents; 3 pounds, 70 cents. Not prepaid: 10 pounds, 75 cents; 50-pound lots 
(bushel) and upwards, 6 cents per pound. Write for large quantity prices. 
