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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
You Can Grow Good Wheat Too 
It’s time fox - most of us to get our eyes open to plain facts. Tlie 
South grows many millions of bushels of wheat every year, yet how 
often do you ever see a field or even a small patch of wheat in your 
neighborhood ? 
All parts of the South can and do grow good wheat. It’s merely 
habit that we have got into looking on wheat as a product of the 
colder sections. Egypt is a great deal warmer country than any of 
the Central, Southern and Gulf States, yet wheat has been one of 
the great staple food crops of that country for thousands of years, 
back as far as history goes. 
flow, a great many of us don’t realize that the yield per acre in 
the South, with intelligent handling, is heavier than the average 
yield per acre of what are known as the wheat growing states of 
the North. We have a corn crop growing on land this year that 
five years ago produced 51% bushels of wheat on a measured acre. 
The illustration below is from a photograph of a field of wheat that 
yielded 35 bushels per acre. 
If any one state would be classed as a non-wheat growing one, it 
would be Florida, and yet one of the best crops of wheat we have 
seen was grown in Bradford County, Florida, a hundred miles or 
more south of the Georgia line. We could go on and repeat the 
details of stories of Alabama and Mississippi planting hundreds 
and thousands of acres every year, but it is unnecessary. The South 
can grow wheat and grow it profitably. Why don’t you? 
There are a million or more farmers in the Cotton States that 
never grew an acre of wheat in their life. Thev buy wheat (in the 
shape of flour) grown north, milled north, shipped from the north 
and unless they pay an extra price for the extra fancy flour, thev 
usually have occasion to "kick” about the poor quality. 
Our Southern wheat is of the best, the quality of the flour from it 
is the best. If you want the best of floui', grow your own wheat 
here in the South and have flour made here. Any miller who can be 
assured of reasonable acreage in wheat is always glad to put in anv 
necessary machinery for milling it. 
Wheat growing is one of the necessities of a good, all around, 
profitable "live at home and board at the same place” agriculture 
that will put the South where it ought to be, the wealthiest and 
best agricultural section, not only of the United States, but of the 
world. Wheat planters never regret it. 
WHEN AND HOW TO PLANT £ I s gSfcati 
alogue like this, to give detailed instructions. If you are really in¬ 
terested in wheat and 
other grains we shall be 
pleased to send you our 
“Grain Book.” which is 
free on request. 
The best time to plant 
wheat in the Southern 
States is from the middle 
of October to the middle 
of December. The aim in 
any locality is to give the 
plants a chance to get well 
established before freez¬ 
ing weather sets in. How¬ 
ever, one of the best wheat 
crops A-e ever saw in this 
section was planted the 
day after Christmas. Seed 
should be drilled in rath¬ 
er than broadcasted. The 
“open furrow’” system for 
planting oats will answer 
splendidly for wheat. 
In commercial fertili¬ 
zers, the Georgia Experi¬ 
ment Station recommends 
at seeding time 200 lbs. 
acid phosphate, 50 lbs. 
muriate of potash, 350 
pounds cotton seed meal 
per acre, followed by 75 
pounds nitrate of soda in 
the spring, about 10 days 
before time for first heads 
to appear. In seeding ear¬ 
ly use one bushel per 
acre. In late planting, say 
after November 15, you 
had best use from % to 
% bushel more seed. 
PLANT OATS 
PLANT RYE 
PLANT WHEAT 
A Crop of Our Georgia Red Wheat—The Man in the Center is Six Feet Tall—This W’heat Crop 
Yielded 35 Bushels Per Acre in Georgia—Why Not Grow Wheat Bike This? 
|^> 0 r] This is a bearded wheat of the finest type 
grown anywhere. Now. we are constantly be¬ 
ing asked the question, “What is the best variety of wheat?” Now, 
there is no one best variety of wheat for all kinds of seasons, lands 
and locations. Some growers prefer a bearded wheat, others won’t 
have anything but a smooth or beardless wheat. Different growers 
and different sections have their preferences. 
Up to two years ago our preference has always been for smooth 
wheats, but our wide observations convinced us that while the 
smooth or beardless varieties like Blue Stem wei’e preferable in 
many respects yet they only did their best under favorable seasons 
and general conditions. In what may be termed bad seasons, or 
on the poorer soils, or under cultivation and fertilizing below the 
average, the bearded varieties made best yields in almost every in¬ 
stance. Our Georgia Red is the superior bearded wheat for the 
South. It's a vigorous grower and a heavy yielder. The above 
picture from a photograph of a seed ci’op shows a field that turned 
out 35 bushels per acre, more than twice the average per acre of 
northern wheat lands. 
Georgia Red is a thoroughly acclimated wheat, grown here in 
Georgia for many years. It’s strong, vigorous and heavy yielding. 
It makes satisfactory crops in good seasons and bad. It’s extremely 
hardy, standing our severest winters without injury. 
There are thousands of people each year in the South that plant 
wheat for the first time and possibly do not give the preparation 
that more experienced growers would give. To such we especially 
recommend oui Georgia Red. for it will stand adverse conditions 
better than any variety of wheat we know of. When you plant 
Georgia Red you know exactly what you have, an acclimated wheat 
that makes heavy yields. Peck, (10 cents; bushel (60 pounds), about 
$2.00. Write for quantity prices and sample. 
Blue Stem or Purple Straw It Si 
growers in the South. It’s a fine, rather early, productive, beard¬ 
less variety of wheat, a standard in this section. It has always 
been a rather early variety, but the strain we are now handling 
ripens from a week to ten days ahead of the old strain. Gooil for 
grain production or if you desjre to cut it when “in dough” makes 
a splendid hay crop. Price, peck, 60 cents; bushel, about $2.00. 
Write for quantity prices, sample and freight rate. 
Pnfl (Mai# U/hoat We have never been able to see where 
IViesjr Tf licail tIlls variety was any earlier and better 
than the Blue Stem, although many prefer it to that variety, claim¬ 
ing great earliness. It’s a standard variety and a great favorite 
in the state of Tennessee. Peck, 60 cents; bushel, about $2.00. Write 
for quantity prices, sample and freight rates. 
