II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlaiita, Georgia 
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FOR HAY AND PASTURES 
Kentucky Blue Grass (No. 533) 
An excellent lawn and pasturage grass, succeeding best 
on limestone land, but does well on stiff, clay and me¬ 
dium soils. Blue Grass in pastures doesn't show up materially the first year after seeding, but if the soil is 
suitable it continues to improve until you have a beautiful stand. Hardly any one needs to be told the mer¬ 
its of Blue Grass. It has been a standby for years and years, although many do not plant it who should. 
Our “Elmwood Fancy” is the very best to be had. It's pure and clean; free from weeds and chaff. We 
make a specialty of Blue Grass for extensive lawn work here in Atlanta, where everything depends on 
having pure vital seed, free from weeds. Here it remains almost dormant during the hot weather; its 
chief value in pasture seeding is for mixing with Bermuda, I.espedeza, and other summer growing va¬ 
rieties. For fall planting sow in October and November. Sow about forty pounds per acre. Fancy re¬ 
cleaned seed: Pound, 60c; postpaid. Ten-pound lots or over about 40 cents. Not prepaid: 100-lb. lots 
about 40 cents a pound. Write for quantity prices when ready to bu.v. 
DalllQ ^ No 53d\ Paspalum dilatatum. Grows normally in bunches with a large num- 
■^<■1119 ber of basal leaves. Appears in early spring, 2 to 3 weeks before Ber¬ 
muda. Keep grazed to present seed heads from maturing or its growth will stop for the season. Endures 
more drought, water, heat and cold than any other Southern grass, but needs fertile soils, preferably 
bottom land. Seed in small furrows three feet apart at 4 pounds per acre or broadcast 6 to 10 pounds per 
acre ou firm seed bed. Cover very lightly. Pound, postpaid, 75 cents. Write for quantity prices. 
DArl Tnn ni* ^hd pasture grass. Succeeds on most kinds of 
neu luporneru » soils, but does best on heavy or low, moist, stiff 
soils. By repeated mowing, this grass holds well during the summer, but its chief value is for winter pas¬ 
tures. It is perennial, not doing so well the first year but gets better the longer it grows; will stand wet 
weather admirably, growing well after being covered with overflow water for two or three weeks at a time. 
It will not become a pest, but can be destroyed any time if desired. Notice illustration. Pound, postpaid, 
40 cents (fancy recleaned seed).* In quantity, about 23 cents per pound, not prepaid. Write for prices. 
Tiirinthv^Nn grass suitable only for the northern part of the South, especially hill 
■ IlllUfcliy ^ nili mountain districts. It is the standard hay crop in the North and makes 
one of the most popular, nutritious, and salable of haj’ grasses. It does not make such good pasturage 
but the hay crop is great where it is well adapted; on clay or heavy loams, lowlands, or in mountain dis¬ 
tricts, although it will do well on any good stiff, loamy soil, provided moisture is abundant. “Red Top or 
Herd’s Grass” and “Meadow Fescue” mature at the same time as Timothy and do well in mixtures with the 
Timothy. They will increase the yield of hay and will largely increase the yield and value of pasturage. 
Pound, 99% purity or over, postpaid, 35c. In quantity, not prepaid, about 20c per pound. Write for prices. 
Hastings’ Evergreen Lawn Grass (No. 550) ^u'^‘^and“coSis“onry"|r'm^^^^^^ 
have been successfully used on the lawns here in Atlanta for the last 12 years. Lawn-making has been a 
serious problem in this part of the South. The trouble with varieties like Kentucky Blue Grass is that 
they will not stand more than one full year, going to pieces under the heat and drought the second sum¬ 
mer. After careful experimenting we made up this mixture and wherever ground has been properly pre¬ 
pared this has been the most successful in permanency of any of the lawn mixtures in this climate. It 
makes a very quick show and soon becomes a beautiful velvety lawn, on well prepared soil. Stands sum¬ 
mer heat and drought without serious injury, coming out again as soon as the rains begin again. Sow 40 
to 50 pounds per acre. Pound, 65 cents; 3 pounds, $1.50; postpaid. Not prepaid; 10-lb. lots, about 40c a 
Ib.; 100-lb. lots, about 35 cents a pound. AVrlte for quantity prices. 
Hastings’ Permanent Pasture Mixture(No. 551) to*"Mr. h.g". HTsVi“wRi“I 
request to make him up a mixture of grasses that would b^ permanent, something he would not have to 
plant over again every two or three years, something that would give all the year round grazing. The re¬ 
sult of that request was a well proportioned mixture of nine different grasses. It was planted on rather 
rolling red clay land. Ten years later that pasture was in better shape, had a stronger growth of grass than 
it had when it was two years old. It had furnished continuous pasturage in wet weather and dry, in hot 
weather and cold. It has in addition to the pasturage furnished one heavy cutting of hay each year. At 
the end of ten years it showed no signs of failing; in fact, it was in better condition than it had ever been. 
The above is a record of our Permanent Pasture Mixture. The land it was sown on was hardly medium 
in quality. It would not haye made over a half bale of cotton per acre. Yet that ten-acre pasture fur¬ 
nished pasturage for numerous cows and horses the year round for ten years. Wasn’t it worth while tak¬ 
ing the trouble to lireak up the land thoroughly, then harrow it down fine, put on 400 pounds of standard 
grade guano, and then spend several dollars per acre for a heavy seeding? Not a stroke of work nor a 
pound of fertilizer has been put on that ten-acre pasture for ten years, and it yielded its grass crop bet¬ 
ter when ten years old than when one or two years old. 
There is no Bermuda or .lohnson grass iu this mixture. Sow .35 pounds of Permanent ^Iixtu^ per acre, 
and it is most advisable to plant about one pound of Red Clover and one pound of Alsike Clover with 
every ten pounds of this mixture of nine pasture grasses. Clover seed cannot well be mixed in the grass 
.seeds evenly, so buy it separately. Pound, 55 cents; 3 pounds, .$1.50; postpaid. Present price, 10-Ib. 
lots or over, 35 cents per pound. AVrite for quantity prices when ready to bu.v. As the different grass 
seeds contained in it fluctuate in price constantly it is fairer to you to make a special quotation when you 
are ready to buy. 
Ked Top or Herd’s Grass 
The Kind of Pasture and Cattle Ton Can Have With Hastings’ Permanent Pasture Mixture 
