H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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HASTINGS' GRAIN PASTURE MIXTURE 
Best Pasture for Stock and Especially Hogs Throughout the Fall, Winter, Spring and Early Summer 
Hastings’ Special Grain Mixture for Hogs and Cattle will supply you more and better green pasturage during the fall, winter, spring 
and early summer than any other combination we know. 
This special grain pasture mixture is made up of the finest winter growing grains and forage crops, including Oats, Wheat, Rye and 
Barley for grazing purposes with enough Vetch and Essex Rape in just the right proportion to add variety to the pasture. 
Our customers have asked us so often for a combination of this kind that we have made up this special mixture of our very best re¬ 
cleaned seeds which we can recommend for practically all sections of the South and which furnishes a quick and heavy pasturage at the 
seasons when most needed, not only for hogs but for all live stock and poultry. 
We recommend sowing not less than 100 pounds of this mixture to the acre broadcast. (150 pounds is better.) It can be planted at 
any time from the first of September until mid-winter but for best results plant early and on good land. Break up and harrow the land 
before planting just the same as you would for wheat or oats; sow broadcast and harrow in. We strongly urge early sowing. 
If this mixture is properly used, there is no reason why every Southern farmer shouldn’t have a plenty of good green pasturage for 
his stock—and particularly hogs. It is quick-growing and a one season pasturage. 
Many mixtures of this kind are made up of “left-over” stocks and filled in with anything that is cheap enough to sell at the price 
advertised, but you can depend on Hastings’ for the very best combination and mixed from the correct proportions of the very best 
seeds that will grow off and make a splendid pasturage. 
If you keep the stock off while the ground is wet your laud will be much better off for having this pasture; tramping wet soil Is sure 
to make it cloddy and unfit for early summer planting. It acts as a cover crop, keeping the land from “washing” during the winter 
rains and turned under before the summer crop builds up the soil. The grazing stock will manure the land, saving fertilizer and sav¬ 
ing spreading it. The vetch, being a legume, will put nitrogen in, the soil and you as well as your land and stock will be a lot better 
off for having planted Hastings’ Special Grain Pasture Mixture. 
Hogs and Feed 
The South has been 
coming to the front 
mighty fast during the 
past few years in the 
matter of hog raising. 
You can hardly pick up 
a paper and not find in 
it an article or two 
about a sale of prize 
hogs from some South¬ 
ern farm, to say noth¬ 
ing of the “Boys’ Pig 
Clubs” which have be¬ 
come so popular and so 
successful in every 
Southern state. And aU 
this pork production 
means increased pros¬ 
perity and good living 
throughout the section. 
Let us keep up the good 
work to the very top 
notch of our ability. 
When you strike a 
farming country where 
you can hear the fat 
porkers squealing soon 
in the morning, when 
the first spell of good 
hog killing weather 
comes in the fall, you 
are among folks who 
know what’s good to 
eat, and if you get an 
invitation to stay to 
dinner, you’d better ac¬ 
cept it. If there’s any¬ 
thing better than coun¬ 
try raised hickory-cured 
ham with red gravy, or 
home-cured bacon fried 
crisp, with coffee and 
biscuit for trimmings, 
teli us what they cali it. 
But to raise hogs suc¬ 
cessfully and profitably 
Plant Hastings’ Grain Pasture Mixture 
you certainly do have 
to figure out a scheme 
to keep them in rations. 
The hog is the “eatlng- 
est” animal there is, 
with the possible ex¬ 
ception of a healthy 15- 
year-old boy. About 
the only difference there 
is between them is the 
fact that there are some 
few things a hog won’t 
eat, while a healthy, 
growing boy will eat 
practically any thing 
that doesn’t bite him 
first. But the fact re¬ 
mains that hogs must 
be fed and fed well, to 
keep them in good 
growth and health, and 
make them get their 
killing weight at as ear¬ 
ly a date as possible. 
The day of the razor 
back is mighty near 
past, and the South is 
raising just as good 
hogs as any section of 
the country. We have a 
splendid climate and 
other natural conditions 
for hog raising, and 
pork can be produced 
as cheaply in the South 
as anywhere in the 
country. But to do it. 
we must have proper 
feed, and plenty of it. 
An empty corn crib 
and a bunch of hungry 
hogs is a mighty poor 
combination for any 
man to own. Luckily, 
the day of the empty 
corn crib is passing, 
also, along with the 
scrub hog. Corn, pea¬ 
nuts, chufas, sorghum, velvet beans, cowpeas, and other crops are all pork producers, and all are easily grown in the South. But there 
is one other item in the way of hog food that we must have, and that is plenty of pasture. So far as summer pasture is concerned, we 
are well supplied, for in almost every part of the South we have plenty of natural pasture suitable for hogs, or we can have good Bermu¬ 
da pasture, which is excellent. But, when fall and winter come, we need to have green grazing for hogs, and must fall back on sown pas¬ 
turage. A combination of grain, such as corn or peanuts, with good grazing, will produce astonishing gains in pork during the fall and 
winter months. It is with this in mind that we have made up our “GRAIN PASTURE MIXTURE.” 
Don’t pick up the poorest piece of land on your farm, and expect it to produce good pasturage. Use good land, just as good as you 
have, if you can spare it for this purpose. If the land is rich, you can produce a great deal more and better pasturage on a small acre¬ 
age than you can on a large one. Another thing which is Important; try by all means to have the land sown for hog grazing purposes 
divided up into two or more lots by cross fences so that the hogs can be changed from one lot to another. You will find this one of the 
very best things you can do, to get the best results from grazing hogs. Where the hogs stay on one field all the time, they graze it too 
closely, and many of the plants die out or are winter killed. By changing the hogs from one lot to another, the growth is not so much 
injured, and comes back rapidly after the hogs are removed. This is a very important feature in getting first class results, and we urge 
it in all cases, where possible. 
Put it on good land, and figure when you plant it that you are planting a real crop, that is to give your hogs real feed during 
the fall and winter. Give it a fair chance, and it will give you first class returns, and your hogs will go into the smokehouse in the 
very best of shape so far as flesh and condition is concerned. Plant our “WINTER HOG OR GRAIN PASTURE MIXTURE.” make 
your own meat, and don’t forget to invite us in to stay to dinner when we pass your way. 
Prices, not prepaid: 60-pound bag, ^.75; lOO-pound bag, $9.00. 
