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WE GAN ALWAYS “SHOW YOU” 
When any one tells you that they have a "world beater” or a “best of all” cotton or corn or anything else in that line you have a perfect 
rittht to be suspicious and ask them to “show you.” 
When we, or any one else shows you a stalk or a dozen stalks of cotton at a fair, or an agent comes travelling around with a sample stalk 
taking orders, the thing you want to know is what the field looks like that the seed comes from to fill the order you place. What do their fields 
look like ? It’s a fair, honest question and the seed buyer is entitled to an answer. We know of men who are selling cotton seed that make not 
over a bale per acre and don’t farm over 10 or 12 acres, yet sell every year 20 to 30 carloads of their so-called “select” planting seed at high prices. 
If you can personally visit the HASTINGS’ Farms, the growing crops themselves will “show you,” To those who cannot come we try to 
show you a little of our work through these pages. W'e want to show you because we have something worth while showing. 
PART OF A FIELD OF HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC CORN 
The Hastings* Farms contain 3,140 acres. You might think from 
our prominence in cotton seed-breeding that it would be an "all cotton” 
farm. Not so. We plan just as carefully for our corn, oats, hay and other 
crops as we do for cotton. 
The illustration above shows a part of one of the fields of the famous 
Hastings' Prolific Corn on the Hastings’ Farm. This is not an ex¬ 
ceptional showing for this variety, thousands of bushels of which we grow 
every season. No prize crop cultivation here, just regular out and out 
good business farming plus good seed corn planted. The crop shown 
above was planted for feeding purposes and from exactly the same quality 
of seed as we send out to our customers regularly. 
With deep plowing, medium fertilizing, shallow cultivation through 
the growing season and the use of properly grown seed of varieties such as 
Hastings* Prolitio you can have crops of corn that will put you beyond 
the reach of the supply merchaiit every year. You can invariably have 
GROWING ON THE HASTINGS’ FARM DURING 1911 
corn to sell instead of to buy. 
If you plant cotton seed from fields such as we show in this catalogue 
you can grow just as many bales on half as many acres as you now cvutl - 
vate and at a much less cost per pound. 
It's a fact that millions of bales of cotton are produced every year at 
a cost of 10 cents per pound or upwards. With right seed of right varie¬ 
ties and with right cultivation 5 to 7 cents per pound is what it costs to 
grow cotton. The use of poor seed adds at least 3 cents to the cost of each 
pound of cotton the grower tnakes. 
If your cotton see®s not fight quality you are paying out good money 
and labor to support a large lot of loafing, thieving cotton or corn plants 
that never can or will pay for their keep. 
We don’t and can’t afford to keep that kind of plants on the 
Haatings* Farma and neither can you. See the illustrations further on 
showing “thief cotton plants. 
