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H, G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
HASTINGS' GRAIN PASTURE MIXTURE 
(No. 553) Best Pasture for Stock and Especially Hogs Throughout the Fall, Winter, and Spring 
Hastings’ Special Grain Mixture for Hogs and Cattle will sup- 
ply you more and better green pasturage during the fall, winter, 
spring and early summer than any other combination we know. 
This special grain pasture mixture is made up of the finest win- 
ter growing grains and forage crops, including Oats, Wheat, Rye 
and Barley for grazing purposes with enough Vetch and Essex 
Rape in just the right proportion to add variety to the pasture. 
Our customers have asked us so often for a combination of this 
kind that we have made up this special mixture of our very best 
recleaned seeds which we can recommend for practically all sec- 
tions of the South and which furnishes a quick and heavy pastur- 
age at the seasons when most needed, not only for hogs but for all 
live stock and poultry. 
We recommend sowing not less than 100 pounds of this mixture 
to the acre broadcast. (150 pounds is better.) It can be planted at 
any time from the first of September until mid-winter but for best 
results plant early and on good land. Break up and harrow the 
land before planting just the same as you would for ■ ’heat or oats ; 
sow broadcast and harrow in. We strongly urge early sowing. 
If this mixture is properly used, there is no reason why every 
Southern farmer shouldn’t have a plenty of good green pasturage 
for his stock — and particularly hogs. It is quick-growing and a 
one season pasturage. 
Many mixtures of this kind are made up of “left-over” stocks 
and filled in with anything that is cheap enough to sell at the price 
advertised, but you can depend on Hastings’ for the very best 
combination and mixed from the correct proportions of the very 
best seeds that will grow off and make a splendid pasturage. 
If you keep the stock off while the ground is wet, your land will 
be in much better shape for having this pasture ; tramping wet 
soil is sure to make it cloddy and unfit for early summer planting. 
This mixture acts as a cover crop, keeping the land from “wash- 
ing” during the winter rains and turning it under before the sum- 
mer crop builds up the soil. The grazing stock will manure the 
land, saving fertilizer and saving spreading it. The vetch, being a 
legume, will put nitrogen in the soil and you as well as your land 
and stock will be a lot better off for having planted Hastings’ 
Special Grain Pasture Mixture. 
Corn, peanuts, chufas, sorghum, velvet beans, cowpeas, and other 
crops are all pork producers, and all are easily grown in the South. 
But there is one other item in the way of hog food that we must 
have, and that is plenty of pasture. So far as summer pasture is 
concerned, we are well supplied, for in almost every part of the 
South we have plenty of natural pasture suitable for hogs, or we 
can have good Bermuda pasture, which is excellent. But, when 
fall and winter come, we need to have green grazing for hogs, and 
must fall back on sown pasturage. A combination of grain, such 
as corn or peanuts, with good grazing will produce astonishing 
gains in pork during the fall and winter months. It is with this in 
mind that we have made up our “GRAIN PASTURE MIXTURE.” 
Don’t pick up the poorest piece of land on your farm, and ex- 
pect it to produce good pasturage. Use good land, just as good as 
you have, if you can spare it for this purpose. If the land is rich, 
you can produce a great deal more and better pasturage on a small 
acreage than you can on a large one. Another thing which is im- 
portant ; try by all means to have the land sown for hog grazing 
purposes divided up into two or more lots by cross fences so that 
the hogs can be changed from one lot to another. By changing the 
hogs from one lot to another, the growth is not so much injured, 
and comes back rapidly after the hogs are removed. This is a 
very important feature in getting first class results, and we urge 
it in all cases, where possible. 
Put it on good land, and figure when you plant it that you are 
planting a real crop, that will give your hogs real feed during the 
fall and winter. Give it a fair chance, and it will give you first 
class returns, and your hogs will go into the smokehouse in the 
very best of shape so far as flesh and condition is concerned. 
Plant our “WINTER HOG OR GRAIN PASTURE MIXTURE,” 
make your own meat, and don’t forget to invite us in to stay to 
dinner when we pass your way. 
Prices, not prepaid: 50-pound bag, $3.00; 100-pound bag, $5.50. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE (No. 400) 
The South is favored with a long list of summer growing feed and 
fattening crops. 
In late winter and early spring, rye, oats, wheat, barley, etc., furnish 
splendid grazing. 
There is, however, a need and a place for an extra quick growing green 
forage crop for use any time during the fall, winter and spring and our 
Dwarf Essex Rape fills that need exactly. 
To show the increasing popularity of rape it’s only necessary to tell you 
that we are selling some thirty times as much seed of Rape now each year 
as we did a few years ago. 
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 the best of 
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 for- 
age crop relished 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 condition. 
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. 
A crop of rape is ready for grazing in 8 to 10 weeks from time of plant- 
ing. 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 substi- 
tute on your table. 
For rape put your land in good condition by plowing and harrowing 
down fine. Plant any time during late summer, fall or winter. If sown 
broadcast use 8 to 10 pounds of seed per acre. If in drills like turnips or 
rutabagas, 3 to 4 pounds is sufficient. If broadcasted, cover the seed by a 
light harrowing. If there is a showery season rape can be planted between 
the corn rows at the last working. 
Rape is quite hardy and will stand practically unharmed any usual cold 
anywhere in the Cotton Belt and lower Gulf Coa'st section. 
We know of no crop plantable at the time of year suitable for rape that 
will bring you in so great a return for. so little expenditure of time and 
money for seed. 
It is estimated that there is in Georgia alone more than a million more 
hogs than a few years ago. Other Southern States have also made great 
strides in hog growing during the last few years. Every one of these hogs 
needs rape pasture during this fall and winter. 
Every poultry raiser needs at least a small patch of rape to furnish 
green feed during late fall, winter and early spring. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE (No. 400), 30 cents per pound, postpaid. Not 
prepaid: Ten-pound lots, 16 cents per pound. Write for large quantity 
prices. Hundred-pound lots, about 14 cents a pound. 
PLANT RAPE FOR HOGS, 
POULTRY AND “GREENS” 
Plant Dwarf Essex Rape for Feeds and Food 
