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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
BERMUDA ONIONS 
A Money Making Vegetable Crop For the South 
White or Yellow Bermuda Onions from Hastings’ Seed Grown in Florida—This Crop Netted the Grower Nearly $1,000.00 Per Acre. 
THE MILLION DOLLAR CROP FROM HASTINGS' SEEDS 
We Started Bermuda Omens as a Crop 
Some 24 years ago we began talking Bermuda Onions as a com¬ 
mercial crop. We knew the Bermuda Onion and had full confidence 
that, once it became known, there would be a market for it that 
would put hundreds of thousands of dollars in Southern truck 
growers’ pockets. The development of this great industry in Texas, 
Florida and other states has justified our judgment fully. It is now 
one of the great Southern vegetable crops, the safest, surest vege¬ 
table crop a man can plant right on year after year. It has reached 
its greatest development in Southwest Texas where, during the 
shipping season, solid train loads of Bermuda Onions leave daily 
for Northern and Eastern markets. 
While Texas is the most important Bermuda onion growing state, 
this crop is assuming larger proportions each year in Florida, Cali¬ 
fornia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. 
This development of a new and great industry lias been possible 
through genuine, good, unmixed seed obtained from Hastings. If 
it hadn’t been for Hastings there would probably be no Bermuda 
Onion industry in Texas now. 
The Bermuda Onion is the safest vegetable crop that you can 
grow. It’s adapted to the Southern third of Texas, the coast sec¬ 
tions of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, all of Florida, 
and the valley lands of Southern California. The Bermuda Onion 
grower has a sure and steady market for his product, North, South, 
East and West, and it seldom nets him less than 1% cents per 
pound, and often 3 and 4 cents. Its importance as a money crop 
can hardly be over-estimated. Let the consumer once get a taste 
of genuine Bermuda Onion, he will buy no other so long as a Ber¬ 
muda is on the market. No gardener should fail to grow them 
either for market or home use. 
We Have Sold 80 Per Cent of the Seed 
There is no other seed house in this or any other country that 
has sold 80 per cent or even 50 per cent of the seed used in any one 
g reat c rop for a series of years. We have sold 80 per cent of the 
Bermuda Onion seed used in the United States up to and including 
1914. We are not saying this as a matter of boasting but simply 
stating a fact. It is an unequaled record and there must naturally 
be a reason for it, especially so when our prices for seed are as high 
or higher than those of other firms. Why is it, then, that we sold 
such a large proportion of the seed used in a commercial crop worth 
millions of dollars? It’s all a question of seed quality. Hastings’ 
Bermuda Onion Seed is the only seed that has been of even grade 
—seed that has gone on and “made good’’ year after year in the 
actual crop tests. Almost every seed house that sells seed in the 
South has tried on Bermuda Onion seed. None of them have ever 
been able to get a quality equal to Hastings’, and most of them 
have given up attempting to sell in the commercial onion-growing 
districts where high quality is insisted on by the growers. These 
men, with their years of experience in Onion growing, have learned 
the impossibility of growing the big paying crops with inferior 
seed, not true to name, seed that makes thick necks and scallions 
instead'-of fancy onions. Mr. T. C. Nye, of Laredo, Texas, who uses 
our seed exclusively, reported one crop of 400,000 pounds (8,000 
crates) without any culls. This is a combination of first-class cul¬ 
tivation and first-class seed. 
Every pound of seed we sell is the best that can be grown with 
carefully selected and bred stock running back for more than a 
dozen years; then the seed is thoroughly re-cleaned of every light 
and imperfect seed. It is equaled by no seed yet produced or of¬ 
fered by any other person or firm. 
$100.00 to $600.00 PER ACRE CLEAR PROFIT 
Send For Our Valuable Special Pamphlet On Bermuda Onion Culture 
Every year we have hundreds of letters asking for information 
about this crop and we have just prepared a new and up-to-date 
pamphlet on Bermuda Onion Culture. It gives the methods of the 
most successful growers, both with and without irrigation. It takes 
up fully the subjects of preparation of soil, fertilizing, cultivation, 
seed-beds, transplanting, harvesting and packing. It takes up the 
whole subject and gives all the information necessary to enable the 
careful grower to make a successful crop. 
No seed firm in this country has been in such close contact with 
the Bermuda Onion industry as we have or is in better position to 
give you information covering the growth of this crop under the 
different conditions existing in the various Southern States. This 
crop is being grown successfully and profitably in every Gulf State 
and there is plenty of room for thousands of acres more in these 
states, both for home markets and shipment. 
Onions cannot be grown with the same careless cultivation as cot¬ 
ton or melons or beans, but for the grower who is willing to give an 
onion crop the care it needs, no more profitable vegetable crop can 
be found. Enormous yields can be made, Florida reporting 700 
bushels per acre, with Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi not far be¬ 
hind that. This pamphlet is free. It shows how growers are clear¬ 
ing $100.00 to $000.00 per acre net profit. You can do likewise. 
