II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
MANGEL AND SUGAR BEETS FOR STOCK FEED 
Every year sees an increase in the number of farmers in the South who plant, at least, a small crop of 
Mangel or Sugar beets for stock feeding purposes. It is almost impossible to find crops that will give 
greater returns for the small amount of time and fertilizer spent on them than the Mangels, Sugar beets 
and White Belgian carrots. They are all immense yielders under good cultivation and make an agree¬ 
able change of feed for any animal kept on dry forage throughout the winter. In dairy cattle the in¬ 
creased flow of milk and generally improved condition of the animals in the spring will show their great 
value. Have your ground deeply plowed, then well harrowed until smooth. In the Middle South seed 
should be sown only in the spring, but in Florida and along the Gulf Coast plantings can be made all 
through the fall and winter. Make rows 2 y 2 to 3 feet apart, planting seed at the rate of about 10 pounds 
per acre. Both the Mangel and Sugar beets are equally profitable for stock feeding. Where their value 
is known almost every farmer plants from one to ten pounds of seed each year, and they find that it 
pays them well. 
Jumbo Long Red Mangel (No. 41) y KK sVwV„T$ni',a'! 
to two-thirds above the surface; are usually 18 inches to 2 feet long and 1 to G inches in diameter. Ounce, 
5 cents; ^4 pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $3.00. 
Large White French Sugar Beet (No. 51) 
Largest and one of the best of true Sugar beets and the rich 
sugar content makes them especially valuable in fattening live 
stock of all kinds. The sugar content when grown South is not 
sufficiently great to make them profitable for manufacturing 
sugar, but they are a most, profitable crop for stock feeding. 
Ounce, 5 cents; % pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS £, "S.TO.g'SS: 
bage family, especially desirable for late summer and fall plant¬ 
ing in Florida and the Gulf Coast section. The “sprouts” are 
miniature cabbages, growing closely on the stalk of the plant, 
a small head being formed at each leaf joint. Plants are quite 
hardy and live through the winter in all parts of the Lower 
South. Quality and flavor are much improved by frost. Sow 
seed in July, August or September and when plants are 1 to C 
inches high transplant to open ground, like cabbage. 
A most desirable 
variety for the 
South, producing compact “sprouts” 
of the very best quality. Packet, 5 
cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % pound, 50 ets.; pound, $1.75; postpaid. 
vegetable very closely related to cauliflower, 
E»i U3.J.VUB8 f rom which it is supposed to have come. Its cul¬ 
ture is the same as that for cauliflower, and in the South¬ 
ern States in the hands of any except expert cauliflower 
growers is a much surer header. There are many de¬ 
terred from growing cauliflower by the high price of the 
seed. To those we recommend Broccoli; there are two 
varieties which do well in the South, the only difference 
being in the color of the heads. 
improved Dwarf Brussels 
Sprouts (No. 59) 
Our Jumbo Mangel Beet 
Improved Dwarf Brussels Sprouts 
White Cape (No. 56)--Purple Cape (No. 57) 
cents; ounce, 25 cents; ^4 pound, 75 cents; postpaid. 
Each, packet, 10 
cents; Ms ounce, 15 
ONE FALL GARDEN IN OVER 90 MILES 
One day last fall our Mr. Hastings and Mr. Freeborn, Superintendent of our Mail Order Department, decided to take a day off and 
visit the Georgia State Fair at Macon. It was about the middle of October, just the time that fall gardens should be in their prime in 
Middle Georgia. On the way down to the train they got to discussing this fall garden question and finally decided to count the num¬ 
ber of real fall gardens between Atlanta and Macon, a distance of a little over 90 miles. 
How many real gardens did they see? Just one in over 90 miles, and where do you suppose that was—on a farm? Not on your life. 
It was in the back yard of a town man’s place, and it was a really worth while garden too, with pole and bush snap beans, lima beans, || 
young beets, turnips, onions, salsify, cabbage, collards, tomatoes, sweet peppers, carrots, mustard and lettuce. The train happened to 
stop directly beside this garden, giving a good chance to see what was in it. 
Hundreds of straggling collards near negro cabins were seen, and an occasional sickly looking “salad turnip” patch showed up, but 1 
of real gardens there was only one and that in a town man’s back yard. 
Some six Aveeks before that Mr. Hastings attended a “Cotton Conference” in the Auditorium in Macon. That large building was 
crowded with cotton farmers trying to find a way to dispose of their cotton so as to pay their debts and buy food for their families. 
It was a serious crowd of men, and they were up against a most serious situation. They stood with outstretched arms toward 
Washington and begged that something be done or else they and their families would perish. 
Now we had the greatest sympathy for cotton growing farmers last fall. We had over 600 bales ourselves. It was a real question 
of bread and meat for most of that crowd at Macon, most of them drawn from the territory covered by that trip six or seven weeks 
later between Atlanta and Macon. All the way down fields were white with cotton, hundreds of bales were piled up around the houses, 
but not a blamed thing to eat growing anywhere at the white men’s farm homes. A few milk cows, probably a dozen hogs, collards 
around the negro cabins—that’s all in a 90-mile trip through what is figured as being a good farming section. 
Cotton growers had plenty of time to attend cotton conferences, to “cuss” and discuss the situation up at the store, but apparently 
not one of them had time to spend making a fall garden that would have gone a long way towards keeping the farm tables well sup¬ 
plied and store bills down. 
There is one and only one safe way to real farm prosperity anywhere and that is to “live at home and board at the same place,” 
and in this, the right kind of a fall garden will play a larger part than you ever dreamed of. Just try it this fall and see. 
Let’s have no more of this one real fall garden to 90 miles foolishness. A better, more common sense record would be 9 good gardens 
to every mile and other food crops in proportion. Then and then only can the cotton grower snap his fingers in the speculator’s face 
and sell his cotton in his own good time and at a satisfactory price. Have a good garden this fall. It’s a long step in a money-saving 
direction, that leads to cotton growing independence, comfort and prosperity. 
