H. G. Hastings & Co,, Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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ON THE HASTINGS’ FARMS 
We wish It were so that everyone to whom this cataiogue goes couid visit the Hastings’ Farms and the Test and Breeding Grounds during the 
copping season. It would bean eye-opener to tens of thousands of you to see what can be done with our Southern crops with carefully bred and 
grown seed under a good system of cultivation and without excessive fertilizing. As it is impossible for most ot you to visit us, we shall try to bring 
some of the farm to you through photographs, taken during the season and reproduced on these pages. We don’t want to ask anyone to buy seeds of 
us unless we can show them that we are doing work in seed growing that is of the right kind and producing seed that is worth while planting on 
your farm. We are reproducing these photographs so yoii can see what entire fields look like as well as single plants. The illustration of a field scene 
on our cover is from one of our fields of ‘‘Union Big Boll” Cotton on the Hastings’ Farms. 
COTTON PICKING ON HASTINGS’ TEST AND 
The photograph above shows a field of our cotton which turned out 
at the rate of slightly over 2J4 bales per acre with the use ol only 600 
pounds of a well-balanced commercial fertilizer. 
Some growers will tell you thatthey have made 2 to 3 bales per acre, 
but when you come to pin them down to facts you will find that they have 
used 1,600 to 2,000 pounds of high grade fertilizer per acre. 
We don’t call that a “square deal.” It isn’t good farming. It’s buy¬ 
ing a big yield at an unnecessarily high cost and it's usually unprofitable. 
True success in farming consists in growing the greatest number of 
pounds or bushels at the lowest cost per pound or bushel. 
In one of the Atlanta papers today was a news item telling of a Geor¬ 
gia farmer who took his entire crop of 115 bales of cotton to town and sold 
It for 9 cents, then paraded around town with signs on his wagons saying 
‘ Cost 12J^ cents per pound,sold for 9 cents.” 
Ii we were that man we would quit growing cotton. Further, we 
would be ashamed to acknowledge that we were such a poor farmer. We 
happen to know personally the man referred to by the paper and we can 
assure you that his cotton fields never looked like this one of ours shown 
above. 
On the Hastings’ Farms lint cc'ton is produced at a cost of less than 
BREEDING FARM, TROUP COUNTY, GEORGIA 
6 cents per pound, and it is done with a combination of right cultivation 
and carefully bred up seed. 
This past season we had acres upon acres turning out 2 bales per acre 
after fully half a bale per acre had been destroyed by a July-August 
drought, the most severe known in our section for years. 
We don’tllke to boast of our work, but our cotton crops were a source 
of comment all the way from Atlanta to Montgomery, Alabama. 
Now, we are doing nothing In our farming that any other progressive 
farmer cannot do and which many of them who make from% to 1 bale 
per acre are doing. The difference between their % to 1 bale per acre 
yield and our two bales is practically all In seed which has been bred up 
right. 
It is possible to make large yields per acre In two ways. First and 
usually the less profitable way is the use of excessive amounts of fertil¬ 
izer; the second Is by the use of rightly bred seed and medium fertilizing. 
In a nutshell the proposition works out about like this; With com¬ 
mon seed and $20.00 to $25.00 worth of fertilizer per acre the bate to bale 
and a halfis possible; with $2.00 worth of well bred and grown seed plus 
$6.00 to $6 00 for fertilizer to 2 bales can be made, and other crops in 
proportion 
