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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
WHAT THESE PHOTOGRAPHS TELL YOU 
ABOUT HASTINGS' SEED OATS 
On this and the preceding page we show three 
illustrations of oats, illustrating just exactly what 
our recleaning and grading process does to a grain 
like oats; these illustrations are reproduced from 
photographs somewhat enlarged so that the im¬ 
perfections in No. 1 and No. 2 can be thoroughly 
shown. Most farmers won’t believe and can’t realize 
the enormous amount of weed and grass seed aud 
light weight grains there are even in the best crops 
of oats. Once one of our good friends from Brooks 
County, Georgia, was in our warehouse and saw 
the recleaning process going on; upon being shown 
the oats before they went through the recleaning 
and grading machines he expressed the opinion that 
he did not see how any oats could be better than 
those. We took him down and let him see the whole 
process and the weed seed and light weight grains 
that came out in the recleaning process. After see¬ 
ing the whole process he said : “Mr. Hastings, 1 have 
known you for a good many years and always con¬ 
sidered you a truthful man, but if you had told me 
what I have actually seen today I am frank to say 
that I would not have believed you. I had no idea 
whatever that so much weed seed and trash could 
be concealed in oats and not be apparent to the eye.” 
Illustration No. 1 on page 2 shows a sample of 
100-Bushel Oats as they came from the farm after 
being threshed. Most every farmer thinks that the 
threshing-machines take out light weight grains 
and weed seed, but they do not. and these three 
illustrations tell the story perfectly. 
No. 2 shows trash, weed seed and small undevel¬ 
oped grain from a photograph taken of some of the 
refuse from our cleaning machines, after cleaning 
the lot of oats represented by illustration No. 1. 
No. 3—Sample of Re-Cleaned Seed, Hastings’ 100-Bushel Oats 
No. 2—Trash and Small Oats 
See the large percentage of small, par¬ 
tially developed grains that never can 
make strong, healthy oat plants, even 
with the best of care and fertilizing. 
No. 3 shows recleaned sample of our 
100-Bushel Oats, just such even size 
and quality oats as go from our store 
to you when you order. 
Will It Pay Me to Plant 
Hastings’ Re-Cleaned Oats? 
The fairest criticism that can be made 
of most seed buyingfarmers is that they 
look almost entirely at the first cost and 
not what they are going to get out of 
it. It is exactly the same principle thai 
leads a man to say: “I can’t afford to 
pay over 50c or 75c per bushel for cot¬ 
ton seed,” and then goes on and plants 
common seed that make about 200 lbs. 
of lint per acre, while his neighbor 
using better seed pays $1.50 to $2.00 per 
bushel for real planting seed and makes 
400 to 500 pounds of lint per acre; the 
extra 200 or 300 pounds of lint costing 
him actually not over $1.00. Our 100- 
Bushel Oat is the best oat in existence 
for fall planting in the South, fully ac¬ 
climated and most vigorous, hardy, re¬ 
markably free from rust and the heavi¬ 
est yielder of all: yet with all these 
good qualities the man who plants 
them without the seed being recleaned 
and graded deliberately throws away 
from 10% to 15% of his stand and in 
other varieties sometimes as high as 
25%. 
One of our customers did not believe 
recleaning and grading made any dif- 
ference. We sold him reclenned seed 
for half of his crop and regular run- 
of-the-crop for the rest. Same variety, 
same land, same fertilizer, same every¬ 
thing all through except the seed oats 
being recleaned and graded. With the 
recleaned seed our friend made 131s 
bushels more per acre than he did with 
the seed not recleaned. 
