//. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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MAKE FOOD OR GO HUNGRY 
This is a plain statement of fact. A real food crisis will confront all of us in less than a year. Food prices will go higher rather 
than lower. It is too late to stave off this food shortage but we of the South can protect ourselves against it in large degree if we act 
promptly, save food already in sight and keep on making food, grain and forage sufficient for home needs at least. 
Food and grain shortages and sky high prices hurt only those who have food to buy and they help those who have a surplus of food 
and grain to sell. Thousands upon thousands of people in this country will go hungry within a year. The farmer who “makes food” 
sufficient for home needs will not suffer. 
Food prices are high and they must of necessity go higher. Lots of talk about “profiteering” in food, some truth but most of it is 
"bunk.” The real-down-at-the-bottom-trouble is that there is a big decrease in food and grain crop acreage plainly and solely due to 
a combination of unfavorable weather conditions and farm labor shortage. The food and grain crops of ordinary size simply will not 
and cannot be made. There are not men enough on the farms to make it. 
The truth is that city and town industries with their almost insanely feverish activity since the war ended have robbed the farms of 
the United States of about one-third of their man power. They have robbed the farms of labor by paying from 100 to 300 per cent 
more wages than any farmer can pay and come out even. 
The result of this movement of labor from farm to city that has been going on steadily since the war ended is shown in the cutting 
down of the winter wheat acreage about one-third, the seeding down of millions of acres of wheat and corn land to hay and pasture, in 
the decrease in meat animals and a dozen similar things we could mention. 
The output of canned vegetables will be greatly reduced, not because of a shortage of tin cans as during the war but because the 
farmers will not make contracts to grow the necessary acreage of vegetables. Why? Because the labor has left those farms for the 
high wages and easy hours of the towns and cities. 
One large manufacturing state of the north reports some 35,000 absolutely abandoned farms in addition to all the others being from 
half to two-thirds manned. The most serious feature is that the greatest labor shortage is largely in the great food producing states 
of the Middle West where so much of the foodstuffs and grain that the South buys comes from. 
We are not alarmists but we are convinced, from several months study of the situation that this country will face a real food crisis, 
one that will continue until labor in part at least swings back to the food producing farms. Here in the South we can save ourselves 
from this crisis in large degree if we begin now and stay steadily on the job. 
First, sav'e by canning or drying any surplus vegetables and fruits you now have. Plant more and keep the fall garden going full 
speed up into winter. If you have been neglecting the cows, hogs and chickens more or less, give them the best chance you can. Every 
pound of meat and butter, every eatable chicken and dozen of eggs will help. Save in good shape every bushel of corn and peas, every 
pound of forage needed for your live stock. 
When the right time comes plant wheat, plant oats, plant rye as well as such crops as Rape, Vetch, Crimson Clover and others. 
They make good grazing, most of them improve your soil and they all prevent winter soil washing. Directly or indirectly they are all 
food and grain crops that will be needed. 
W'e cannot avert this coming food crisis but by growing and saving food and grain crops we can bead off any real damage to our¬ 
selves. It must be done, to play safe, on every farm by every farmer. If you have your own food and grain, high food prices won’t 
hurt you. 
PRICE NOTICE ON FIELD AND GRASS SEEDS 
At the time this catalogue goes to press we cannot offer field and grass seeds at definite prices. The market varies almowt daily, 
so when you are ready to buy oatsv wheat, rye, barley, grasses, clovers, alfalfa, etc., write us for prices on the quantity you need. 
We will give you right prices, send samples if requested, and freight or express rates to your station. 
Alphabetical Index for Catalogue Reference 
Flower Seeds are listed on pages 51-53. 
Flowering Bulbs are listed on pages 54-55 
and back cover. 
Roses (plants) are listed on page 56 and in¬ 
side of back cover. 
So far as possible, we have arranged the 
vegetables in alphabetical order. 
■Vlfalfa. 
Asparagus ... . 
Bacteria, Soil Inoculation , . . 
Barley. 
Beans, Garden.. . . 
Beets . 
Broccoli.' . . . . 
Brussels Sprouts. 
Bug Death. 
Bulbs.Rear Cover 
Page 44 
. .’ . 46 
... 39 
. . . -3-5 
. . .6-7 
... 7 
... 7 
. . . 26 
and .'54 fl> 
Cabbage.S-9 
Carrots.’T 
Cauliflower.10 
Celeriac. 
Celery. 
Clovers . 
Collards. 
Cos, White Paris. 
Cress. 
Cucumbers. 
Eggplant. 
Endive. 
Fetticus (Corn Salad) . . . 
Flowers. 
Garlic. 
Grasses. 
Hog Pasture (Grain) Mixture 
Insecticides. 
Kale (Borecole). 
Kohl Rahi. 
Leeks . 
Lettuce. 
Mustard. 
. 11 
. 11 
43-15 
. 10 
. 15 
. 10 
. 12 
. 13 
. 10 
. 10 
51-56 
. IS 
4,S-.50 
. 41 
. 20 
. 13 
. 13 
. 13 
14-l.j 
. 20 
Oats.. 
Okra. 
Onions and Onion Sets. 
36-.38 
. 20 
16-19 
Parsley.20 
Parsnips.20 
Pec.s.22-2.3 
Peppers.21 
Planting Table.33 
Radish.24-‘,i5 
Rape.42 
Roses (plants) .... Rear Cover and 56 
Rutabagas.32 
Rye ..39 
Salsify.27 
Southern Ruralist..34-35 
Spinach.27 
Squash.27 
Tomatoes.-.28-29 
Turnips.30-32 
Vetch.47 
Wheat.40 
United States Food Administration License No. G-06270 
This complete catalog—all reading matter and illustrations—Copyrighted, 1920, by H. G. Hastings Co., .Atlanta, Ga. 
