H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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And Its Great 
It may seem a long call from our plant-breeding and seed-growing 
work to your farm but It isn’t. 
We will be frank and open with you. We didn’t establish this Plant- 
Breeding Department and the Hastinits’ Farm because we specially 
wanted to, but just because we had to or else be content with furnishing 
our friends the same low grade, inferior, mixed seed of cotton, corn and 
other Southern staple crops that was (and is) being sold, simply because 
nobody was breeding it up and growing it right. 
It has always been the Hastings* business policy to keep consider¬ 
ably ahead of the procession. We studied these special points of the 
bush]ess for years. We were not satisfied with the cotton seed, corn, 
oats* etc., that we were sending out, although they were the best obtain¬ 
able in the South at that time. 
We tried to get our contract growers to do the right kind of seed- 
growing. We failed, for every time the extra work necessary showed up 
Mr. Contract Grower would kick over the traces. In a word, we found it 
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impossible to get this class of work done by others. The only thing left 
was to do it ourselves, and we are doing it. 
Itlsn’t cheap work. It costs thousands upon thousands of dollars 
each year but we are getting results which we are passing along to you 
every time you order seed from us. Every seed buying customer gets the 
benefit of this breeding work and our present highly organized seed 
growing operations with thousands of acres under direct control, and an 
independent ginning system where only one variety is ginned each 
season. We don't claim to be perfect, for plant-breeding is never finished, 
but each year shows marked improvement in our stocks. 
It is certainly a satisfaction to us to have friends come into our store 
or write us saying, “Mr. Hastings, I never made over a bale of cotton per 
acre before. With your-cotton I got from a bale and a half to 
two bales per acre in my crop and my neighbors were astonished.” 
That kind of testimony comes from people planting our seed, the ^ 
uallty and prolificness of that seed being directly the result of our 
lant-Breeding and Growing Work. 
UNION BIG BOLL, A HEAVY BEARING, MEDIUM 
The kind and quality of our Plant-Breeding work is not being 
equalled anywhere in the world. 
Officials of the United States Department of Agriculture have visited 
us this past year and have made a very close examination of it. They tell 
us that It is'the best they have ever seen. Represen tatlvee of foreign 
governments have Inspected it this past yea^ and after seeing the fields 
of other so-called seed growers and compared them with ours, they ended 
up by placing large orders with us for shipment this winter. 
This work of ours is getting an International feputa.lon. It's “making 
good ” in the fullest sense of the word and we certainly wish it were posel 
EARLY VARIETY, GROWING ON HASTINGS’ FARM 
ble for each one of you to carefully inspect it Qurmg rate summer and 
fall each year. 
Every one to whom this catalogue goes can get the benefit of It. Jts 
results, in the shape of highly bred and rightly grown seed, is just as 
easily obtainable hy the humblest “one horse” farmer as it is to the 
strongest government on earth with hundreds of millions of dollars 
back of it 
Our work IS valuable to you i you use a. Otnerwise it isn t worth a 
cent to you. 
