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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
The Farmer With Oats Saves Money 
There were more acres of oats planted in the Southern States last 
fall than ever before. Despite the fact that the past season was the 
worst for oat growing we have ever seen there have been more oats 
harvested than ever before. Further, the fact that those oats are in 
hand now has proven a "life saver” to thousands upon thousands of 
cotton growers w r ho were short on corn last spring. 
The all or nearly all cotton grower; the cotton growing, food and 
grain buying, always in debt and nose to the grindstone farmer got 
an awful jolt when this European war came on. It knocked him 
flat and even now he is under an accumulation of debt that will keep 
him busy for years to come if he continues in his old cotton grow¬ 
ing, food buying rut. 
The right kind of farming is a paying proposition. The kind of 
farming that 75 to SO per cent of our people do does not pay, never 
has paid, never will pay. Profit on the farm lies first in the pro¬ 
duction on the farm of every dollar’s worth of food, grain and hay 
supplies needed for that farm. When that’s done a man can safely 
plant his remaining acres in cotton or other cash crop. 
Oats can be grown cheaper than corn. Oats are far better sum¬ 
mer grain food for work stock than corn. Oats are a winter grow¬ 
ing crop and save the land from winter washing as well. Oats come 
off in plenty of time so that the ground may be planted in peas or 
sorghum, insuring you a hay crop as well as grain, insuring your 
land’s working full time. 
A reasonable acreage of oats on your farm each year is the begin¬ 
ning of prosperity. Oats will help make your cotton money stick. 
You won't have to turn it over to supply merchant. You will own 
those cotton dollars and not owe them as in the past. 
The foundation of a money-making production of cotton, even on 
a 12 to 15 cent basis lies in home production of grain, hay and meat. 
In not one case out of a thousand can a farmer make any money 
growing cotton if he buys oats, corn and meat at ruling store prices 
With all due respect to our corn crops planted in the spring and 
which have a habit of giving out along from April to June in spite 
of our efforts to make enough to see us through, we must depend 
on oats for a summer grain feed for our animals. 
Oats can be grown as cheap or cheaper than corn; most of the 
work is done at a time when it don’t interfere with other crops - the 
crop furnishes winter and spring grazing as well as a cover crop 
to prevent washing; and as a grain crop furnishes a better summer 
grain feed for w-ork stock than corn, for we never knew an animai 
fed on oats to go to pieces under summer heat as do thousands of 
corn fed work mules or horses. The one, two or three horse farmer 
with a reasonable acreage in corn and a few acres in oats followed 
by peas or sorghum and peas is always a money saver. He can’t 
help but be, for he has absolutely stopped the deadly drain on his 
pocket for grain and hay from farther north. 
IVe have all of us in past years been following a bankruptcy sys¬ 
tem. We have been slowly getting out from under the past three 
years. Each one of us has his share to do in stopping this grain 
drain and hay drain and meat drain and a dozen or so others 
A fall sown oat crop is a long step and a right step in a money¬ 
saving, soil-building, wealth accumulating direction. It’s time to 
plan for oat acreage now. Be sure and sow enough (open furrow 
system) to last your stock several months. Do this and join the 
ranks of the money-saving oat growers of the South. 
REALLY RE-CLEANED GEORGIA GROWN SEED OATS 
Most of all in importance for fall planting is the oat crop. You can’t grow too many oats anywhere in the South. They are of high 
feeding value for your own stock. If 
you have a surplus there is a mar¬ 
ket for every bushel of it at your 
nearest town. The oat crop with the 
open furrow system of planting is 
the safest crop you can plant and 
the least expensive to grow. With 
this system of planting there is 
little or no danger of winter-kill¬ 
ing; there is no labor cost, except 
preparation of the ground and har¬ 
vest; you keep your land covered 
all winter, thus stopping the wash¬ 
ing from winter and spring rains 
and you have your ground abso¬ 
lutely free for a summer crop of 
peas or peas and sorghum that will 
make from $15.00 to $30.00 worth of 
hay per acre in addition to the value 
of the oats, and still leave your land 
better off than when you started, 
oats followed by hay crop being a 
splendid rotation for the cotton- 
grower. The price of oats, corn and 
hay during the past few years ought 
to be an eye-opener for every one 
of us. To go on in our old way 
means bankruptcy sooner or later. 
There are very few of us who have 
not had to go down into our pockets 
in past years and pay from $1.00 to 
$1.25 for sorry Western corn; 80 
cents to $1.00 for sorrier oats. We 
can’t and you can’t afford to do this, 
even if cotton were 20 cents a pound, 
with a thirteen or fourteen million 
bale crop. We preach nothing that 
we do not practice ourselves. On 
our own farms we plant hundreds 
of acres of oats every year. We find 
oats the most profitable grain crop 
that we can grow and the hay crop 
following brings us in more money 
per acre than the average cotton 
acre of the South produces. We get 
from fifty to one hundred bushels 
of oats per acre, according to the 
quality of the land on which they 
were planted; we do this by thor¬ 
ough preparation of the soil and 
use of recleaned and graded seed, 
for experience has taught us that 
we cannot afford to plant anything 
but recleaned and graded seed. 
Every bushel of seed oats planted 
on the Hastings Farm comes to our 
warehouse here in Atlanta for re¬ 
cleaning and grading before it is 
, „ , „ „ . planted. What pays us will cer- 
No. 1—Sample of Hastings’ 100-Bnshcl Oats Direct From the Farm tainly pay you, 
