THIS SPECIAL QUOTATION SHEET 
takes the place in our business of the ‘‘Special Price List” or“Truckers’ Price List” which some firms issue. By sending 
us on this sheet a list of the seed that you are going to need, we are able to quote you on just the amount of seed you 
need, and to tell you just what it will cost to lay it down at your Freight or Express Office. 
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR WANTS 
In addition to sending you seeds that will increase the profits of your farm, we can often save you money in the cost price. 
This sheet, which is known as our “Special Quotation Sheet,” has a distinct place in our system of business and a 
great many thousands of our customers make use of it every year. This sheet is more largely for your benefit than ours, 
and we want you to use it this year. It is for the use of truck gardeners buying vegetable seeds in large quantities and 
for the buyer of farm seeds who wants to know exactly what those seeds will cost delivered at his station. 
There are three things you actually want to know in seed buying. First, and most important, is that seed quality is 
right; second, what the cost of the seed is in Atlanta; third, just what the freight or express charges will be to your sta- 
tion. If seed comes from Hastings’, you know the quality is right. On the other two points it is very easy. All you have 
to do is to write down the name and quantity of the kinds you want on the other side of this sheet, tear it out and mail to 
us. We will quote you the best price we can make, estimate the weight, figure out the freight or express charges and 
send it back to you promptly. You will then know exactly what the seed will cost you delivered at your station. 
Do Not Use This for Family Garden Lists 
Please notice that this sheet is not to be used for asking special quotations on family garden orders, such as seeds in 
packets or ounces, pounds or two-pounds, or special collections. Prices on packets and ounces, etc., are distinctly stated 
(these prices including postage paid by us) in the catalog, together with special premium offers of extra seeds, etc. With 
these offers standing open to every seed buyer, we can not and will not make “Special Quotations” on family garden lists. 
One last word: Make up your quantity list and send it to us so that we can make you a delivered price. Asking for a 
quotation puts you under no obligation to buy unless you want to. We have just the right seeds and we believe that 
Hastings’ Seeds on your farm will pay both you and us, and this quotation sheet will help us get together. Use it now. 
M ulford Cultttres 
See illustration. Alfalfa plant on left not inoculated — Plant 
on right inoculated with Mulford Culture for Alfalfa — All 
other conditions the same — The contrast speaks for itself. 
Making better crops at less cost for fertilizer ought to be the aim and 
object of every farmer and gardener. Inoculation will help do both. Re- 
member, however, that these bacteria only act directly on what are 
known as leguminous crops ; this includes all kinds of clover, beans, 
peas, alfalfa, vetches and peanuts. On these the bacteria can be applied 
with direct benefit — that is, it will make great deal larger crops per acre 
than you would otherwise get. 
Our illustration shows how these bacteria act on the roots of legumin- 
ous plants such as just mentioned. The knobs or “nodules,” as they are 
termed, are little storehouses of nitrogen, that costly element of plant 
food that these bacteria have gathered from the air. Some of this goes 
to feed the plant while growing, but the larger part remains stored in 
the roots. After the clover, peas, etc., have been harvested, these roots 
decay, leaving in the soil a store of nitrogen for succeeding crops. A 
good crop of any leguminous plant growing in soil deficient in nitrogen 
will, if the seed is inoculated, add to that soil available nitrogen equal 
to that found in 700 to 1000 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, worth 
anywhere from $30.00 to $50.00. What’s more is that the nitrates added 
by a leguminous crop stay in the soil much better than when applied in 
the form of nitrate of soda. 
The use of these bacteria on any leguminous crops means 50% to 100% 
more of that particular crop per acre, and it means a store of the highest 
priced element of plant food in your soil for succeeding crops. Isn’t 
that worth while to you ? It certainly is to us and these inoculating ma- 
terials are used extensively on the Hastings’ Plantation every year. 
NOTE — There is a different kind of culture for each kind of legume, 
and you must teU what “kind of crop” you want to use it on when or- 
dering. Culture for alfalfa, for example, is not good for any other crop. 
We have Mulford Cultures for the inoculation of Hastings Mung »ea“S, 
Alfalfa, Crimson Clover, Sweet Clover, White Clover, Red Clover, ^sike 
Clover, Bur Clover, Cowpeas, Soy Beans, Peanuts, Vetch, Velvet Beans, 
Beggarweed, Eespedeza or Japan Clover, Sweet Peas, Garden i'eas. 
Garden Beans, Pima Beans. , 
PRICE — One-acre size bottle, $1.50 ; 5-acre size bottle, $3-00 i %-acre 
size bottle, 75 cents; Small Garden size, for Garden Peas^, Garden Beans, 
Pima Beans and Sweet Peas only 35 cents; postpaid. Specify the crop 
you want to use it on, sure. 
