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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
VETCH, A Wonderful Winter Crop 
That is exactly what it is, a wonderful winter crop for all the 
South. One of the South Carolina growers expressed it well when 
he said: “I consider it the cow pea of the winter for our section.” 
When we speak of Yeteli in this connection we mean the plant 
known 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, for it is known under 
those three names. It is also used to adulterate Winter Vetch with, 
and if you are offered Winter Vetch at a very 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 or forage making crops for our live 
stock to feed upon. 
In the Winter, Sand or Hairy Vetch we have in one winter grow¬ 
ing crop something that combines those three and it justifies fully 
our calling it a “wonderful winter crop.” 
With all due respect to Crimson Clover and Burr Clover, and we 
plant them both ourselves, we have always considered Vetch the 
most valuable of the three for the Middle South. 
Planted with 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 es¬ 
tablished fields of alfalfa, and at the same time leaves added fer¬ 
tility to the soil. 
Planted on Bermuda sod and scratched in lightly in October it 
furnishes an abundance of grazing all through winter and spring 
for beef or dairy cattle, hogs or sheep, and in late spring can be let 
go to seed, thus seeding down the ground for next season. 
Grown in abundance it makes possible the profitable growing and 
fattening of cattle, something that hundreds have attempted to do 
and failed simply because they have had to buy feed for those cattle 
at top-of-tbe-market prices. Crops like Vetch make possible profit¬ 
able live stock growing which in turn means prosperity on Southern 
farms undreamed of by either our fathers or ourselves. 
Vetch is a crop worth while. Plant at least a trial acre of it this 
year. Seed must be inoculated before planting unless Vetch has 
been planted on the same ground before. For inoculating material 
see “Nitro-Germ, Nitragin and Farm-o-Germ,” page 17. 
A Crop of Oats and Vetch — Such a Field Will Turn Out Four to Five Tons of Dried Hay Per Acre. 
Vetch 
Booklet 
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If You 
Ask for 
a Copy 
If you are 
interested 
in Vetch as 
a crop we 
shall be glad 
to send you 
» copy of a 
booklet free 
that goes 
more fully 
Into details 
on the value 
of Vetch 
and its cul¬ 
tivation 
than is pos¬ 
sible in this 
catalogue. 
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WAR NOTE 
Winter Vetch as illustrated above is a product of Russia and Eastern Germany. At the time this catalogue 
is mailed it is impossible for us or any other seedsman to say whether we will be able to supply genuine 
Winter or Hairy Vetch in any considerable quantities this fall or not. These countries are involved in war. Shipments from them have 
stopped, and whether or not we will be able to get any Vetch seed out of them can only be answered in the future. Write us when 
you are ready to buy and we will then he able to tell you whether we can supply Winter Vetch in quantity or not. We have a very lim¬ 
ited quantity of last season’s seed on hand. By mail, postpaid, 30 cents per pound. 
