II. G. IIastmg.9 Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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CRIMSON CLOVER (No. 504) 
A great revolution is ■well under way in Southern agriculture and through that rev- 
olution, the South, which is essentially an agricultural section, is going to become 
■what Nature has always intended, the ■wealthiest part of these United States. 
We have about all been actively engaged in “land skinning.” Our fathers and grand- 
fathers did likewise before us, while negro and white croppers on millions of the 
South’s best acres have actually “greased the slide” for quick soil exhaustion. 
Six years ago few people took much stock in planting Crimson Clover, Vetch, Bur 
Clover, etc., but those few have opened the eyes of the South. Last fall thousands of 
farmers planted these new crops and have become full and enthusiastic converts to the 
new religion of soil building in the South. Since the general use of the nitrogen-gath- 
ering bacteria on the seed before planting (see page 49) success has been assured in 
almost every instance, and once a man begins the use of Crimson Clover, Vetch, Bur 
Clover, etc., he is a new farmer and he has a new farm on those old acres, a new farm 
that opens his eyes to the possibility of yields of the staple crops of which he never 
even dreamed before. 
Crimson Clover is the most largely planted of these crops. It is a distinct and most 
valuable annual clover for sowing in late summer and fall in all parts of the South. 
One enthusiastic grower wrote: “Crimson Clover is a vegetable gold mine.” It will 
yield under fair conditions 8 to 10 tons of green feed per acre, liA to 2 tons of hay, 
and is considered worth fully $20.00 to $50.00 per acre as a fertilizer crop. Succeeds on 
almost all classes and qualities of soil except the very poorest, but is especially valu- 
able on light sandy or loamy soils. Sow at the last working of staple crops like cotton 
or corn ; it is now also largely used in seeding down orchards. Can be sown from 
July to November in the Central and Lower South. Crop can be grazed during the 
winter and if stock is taken off in JNIarch a full crop will be made. Sow seed broad- 
cast at rate of 20 to 25 pounds per acre and harrow in lightly. Experienced farmers 
who know Crimson Clover claim that the growing of it on land will increase the yield 
of a crop of corn following at least one-third and other crops proportionately. If you 
have never had Crimson Clover on your land you will find that inoculation of these 
seed will practically insure success. (See Mulford Cultures on page 49). Like all 
other grasses and clovers the market price of Crimson Clover changes often. Write 
when ready to buy, asking for market price. Pound, postpaid, 30 cents; 4 pounds, 
$1.00. Write for quantity prices on tlie amount you want when ready to buy. W© 
will give you our best market quotation. 
Crimson Clover — “A Vegetable Gold 3Iine’ 
BUR CLOVER (No. 503) 
That may seem a queer way of putting it, but it expresses 
exactly what Bur Clover will do. It’s a builder from start to 
finish, adding nitrogen to the soil for succeeding crops, adding 
vegetable matter, holding plant food from washing away in win- 
ter rains, and building up your live stock every day when it is 
allowed to graze on the clover during the growing season of fall, 
winter and spring. 
It is an annual plant, coming from seed each year, furnishes 
some, grazing during the winter, and if grazing is stopped late in 
March it will make a good hay crop in May. However, most pre- 
fer to let it go to seed, thus reseeding the ground for another 
winter’s grazing. In the meantime summer crops can be easily 
grown on the same ground. The seed matures in time for the 
A Builder of Land and Animals 
land to be plowed by June first. Its growffh is strong, even on 
poor ground. On soils too poor for rye to get high enough to 
cut. Bur Clover made a growth of 214 to 3 feet high. Bur Clover 
is a leguminous crop, gathers nitrogen from the air and, after 
furnishing winter grazing, leaves the soil in better condition for 
succeeding crops. 
Southern Bur Clover seed is produced in small prickly pods and 
is always sold “in the bur.” Sow at the rate of 50 to 80 pounds 
per acre by the first of September if possible. Early planting 
gives better stands. It is fine for sowing in Bermuda Grass sod. 
Prices — Pound, postpaid, 40 cents; 3 pounds for $1.10. Write 
for special market quotations on quantity lots when ready to buy. 
Hairy or Winter Vetch 
VETCH (NO. 401) THE WINTER CROP 
Vetch is a wonderful winter crop for all the South. See the front cover illustration, A South Caro- 
lina grower expressed it well when he said; “I consider it the cowpea of the winter for our section”. 
When we speak of Vetch in this connection we mean the plant kno-wn as Sand, Hairy or Winter Vetch, 
which is the hardy variety, standing severe winters in all parts of the South without injury. This is 
the only variety safe to plant. Do not allow yourself to be fooled into buying the Spring Vetch either 
under the name of Spring Vetch, English Vetch or Oregon Vetch. It is also used to adulterate Winter 
Vetch, and if you are offered Winter Vetch at a low price, look out for it. Spring Vetch is usually 
worth about 5 cents per pound and it is easy to fool the unsuspecting buyer. 
The South needs three things above all others: winter cover crops to stop the washing from winter 
rains; soil improving crops to add the most costly plant food element, nitrogen, to the soil for the use 
of succeeding crops, and hay for live stock forage. In the Winter, Sand or Hairy Vetch we have 
something that combines those three and it justifies fully our calling it a “wonderful winter crop”. 
Planted -nfith small amounts of rye, oats, wheat or barley for . a support after it begins to run. Vetch 
makes a magnificent hay crop in spring, coming in ahead of everything else except thoroughly estab- 
lished fields of alfalfa, and at the same time leaves added fertility to the soil. 
From our own experience with Vetch, we want to impress on our customers the necessity for early 
planting. We have had splendid results from broadcasting the seed, mixed with oats, at the last 
working of both corn and cotton. If planted too late in the summer, results will not be as satis- 
factory. It matures seed in June and can be plowed under and a summer crop planted. If this is 
done, the land will be seeded down in Vetch. A good stand will come up during the late summer and 
will make a heavier growth than it did the first year. If this process is kept up, you will find your 
land growing richer very, rapidly and a magnificent cover crop produced every winter without any 
seeding expense. We can show fields on our own plantation that have been changed from very poor 
and unproductive soils to rich and fertile land, simply by the use of Vetch as described above. 
We make this assertion: that, in 3 years’ time, and without losing the use of the land, with a "very 
small expense, any farmer in the middle South, can change his twenty-bushel-per-acre corn land into 
land that can and will make thirty-five bushels per acre. Please note that we are not talking about 
“brag patches” or hundred-bushel-per-acre yields. We are talking about plain everyday farming. We 
have tried it and proved it on the Hastings* Plantation wdth the use of Genuine Sand or Hairy Winter 
Vetch. Start it making your land rich this fail. Seed should be inoculated. See page 49. 
Hemember — there is no better winter crop in the South than Winter Vetch. We bank on it on the 
Hastings’ Plantation and we recommend it as highly as w© possibly can. It's a real crop. 
Write us when you are ready to buy and we will tell you the exact price in any quantity. Present 
quantity price is about 20 cents per pound. Look out for Oregon grown Winter Vetch Seed at cheaper 
prices. Genuine Winter, Sand or Hairy Vetch, postpaid, pound, 35 cents; 4 pounds, $1.23. 
