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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Hastings' 100-Bushel Oats 
BEST OF ALL HEAVY YIELDING “RUST PROOF” OATS FOR THE SOUTH 
Right seed of a right variety comes as near making a profitable 
crop certain as is possible in farming. When we introduced our 100- 
Bushel Oat eight years ago we placed in the hands of the farmers of 
the South the safest, surest cropping, best paying oat that existed. 
There was nothing equal to it eight years ago and there is nothing 
equal to it now. If you have “100-Bushel Oats” direct from us (re¬ 
cleaned seed) you need have no fears of failure or even unsatisfac¬ 
tory yields. It's sure and safe for a fall planted oat in every South¬ 
ern State. We named it “100-Bushel Oat” because that’s about what 
it was'making for us on good land and under good cultivation. You 
can’t help but make money out of this oat if you give it half a chance. 
Right here let’s be honest with each other. This variety of oat 
isn’t, going to make a crop all by itself. You have got to do your 
part in the way of preparation of the land and careful planting. No 
seed on earth of any cultivated crop is going to do its full share of 
the work unless the planter treats it fair and honest by doing his 
share. Y’ou and we can’t get 75 to 100 bushels per acre of any crop 
with a 10 bushel quality of preparation. The real point, however, 
is that if you give "100-Bushel Oat” anything like a chance with fair 
preparation you are sure of a yield from 10 to 20 bushels more per 
acre than from any other oat you can plant. 
We believe in the 100-Bushel Oat ourselves; grew nearly 300 acres 
of it for feeding on the Hastings Farm this past season and expect 
to plant about 400 acres of it this fall to grow feed for our working 
stock. This 100-Bushel Oat is the only variety of oats-we plant on 
the Hastings Farm for our stock. Why? Because we can get at 
least 10 bushels more per acre from it than any other. Over on our 
Test Grounds we had some 25 varieties of oats from all parts of the 
country, north, south, east and west, and not a single variety came 
anywhere near the 100-Bushel in yield. We keep up this test work 
each year and when we find any oat that equals our “100-Bushel” 
we will tell you about it. The more we grow and see “100-Bushel 
Oat” in all kinds of seasons and all classes of lands the more we 
think of it. No oat that we have ever seen in the South is so hardy, 
healthy and vigorous, no oat that will stand up so well and do more 
than could be reasonably expected of it. That’s the kind of oat 
that you can afford to plant and no other. With the open furrow 
system w-e have never known it to winter kill. 
From a Photograph of a Field of HASTINGS’ HUNDRED-BUSHEL, OATS Grown in Meriwether County, Georgia— Three Years Before 
it Took Four Acres of This Eand to Make One Bale of Cotton —Why Not Grow Oats Dike This? 
On the next page will be seen a reproduction from a photograph 
of a bunch of “100-Busliel Oats.” Note the heavy well filled heads, 
the long, stiff straw. This is also shown in the field scene on this 
page, the gentlemen standing in the field being above the average 
height. 
For an all-round general purpose oat you will find nothing that 
can compare with it. Planted in the fall it is almost as hardy as 
rye, stools out strongly, makes the best of winter and early spring 
grazing for cattle, hogs, horses and mules and in the right season 
comes out and makes oats such ns are shown on these two pages. 
It’s a true strain of Southern oat, “rust-proof” to a remarkable 
degree and adapted to all the South. Grains are exceptionally large 
and heavy, usually weighing 40 pounds or over to a measured 
bushel. It’s just the oat for you, a Southern thoroughbred, an oat 
that you can depend upon. No matter where you live in the South 
it’s the right oat for fall planting. 
Every fall there are tens of thousands of cotton growing farmers 
who say, “I would like to plant a few acres of oats, but ha.T@ no, 
place to put them. My land is all in cotton and I won’t get iitt 
‘picked out’ in time.” Such farmers are dead wrong. The, field 
shown in the photograph above was sown with the open furrow- 
system before the cotton was picked out. On the Hastings, Farm 
hundreds of acres are planted every year on cotton ground before 
the cotton is picked out More and more oats are planted; between 
cotton rows every year. 
Oats are easier grown than corn, cost less to make and are a bet¬ 
ter summer time feed for work stock, being less heating, and fur¬ 
nish a combination grain and hay feed in case you do not wish to 
thresh them out. 
Georgia, in one year, bought from outside the state over thirty- 
nine million dollars’ -worth of feed oats. Other states buy oats in 
ns heavy proportion. Don’t you think it a good time to change 
from buying oats to selling them? 
