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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ SURE CROP 
The Money-Making Cotton for the Planter 
Three Soils From Onr HASTINGS’ Sure Crop Cotton. About One>Half Natural Size 
A Sure and Dependable Money-Maker 
We have talked about Hastings* Sure Crop as being a money-mak¬ 
ing cotton for the plater for mftny years. It’s one of the varieties that 
gets the I'irgest acreag“on the Hastings* Farm. Please do not confuse 
this variety with the small-boiled variety sold under the name of “Money 
Maker.” Hastings* Sure Crop is a true big boll cotton, the open bolls 
shown above from a photograph being just about oae-half natural size. 
It’s a real, first-class, dependable cotton, one that you can always depend 
on to put money in the bank f^n. Big bolls and the plants full of them. 
For ten years we have gro\ra and watched Sure Crop, and every 
year we grow it we like it just as well, and our cotton seed buying friends 
think just the same as we do about it. 
Snre Crop Is a big-bolled cotton, four and five locks (mostly five). 
It’s easy to get varieties of cotton that make good crops under favor¬ 
able conditions, but what yon want is a cotton that makes good crops in 
unfavorable seasons. Snre Crop Is such a variety. 
Snre Crop Is a big-bolled four and five-lock cotton. It has been 
bred up to stand either vefy dry or very wet seasons and It does It. It fruits 
heavily and from the ground up; begins opening almost as early asKlng’s 
and bears heavily throughout the entire season. It stands severe wind¬ 
storms without losing the lint, at the same time It Is easy to pick. It will 
make 35 to 38 pet cent. lint. Snre Crop is well worthy to stand beside 
our other great varieties—Mortgage Lifter, Bfwk Account and Rosser No. 
1. Sure Crop WBS originated by a grower wSn up in the cotton-growing 
section. Starting with hig{i-grade, big-boll cotton, he crossed it with other 
varieties, giving it greater hardiness, earliness, and heavy bearing quali¬ 
ties. Remember, Snre Crop, as well as our other great varieties, are all 
garown In the red hill section of Georgia. Cotton seed grown up In this 
section has a vigor that has no equal in any seed grown elsewhere in the 
cotton States. It possesses heavy bearing qualities and a freedom from 
disease thatls not found In any seed grown elsewhere. If you doubt this, 
plant some seed of Sure Crop side by side with with the common cotton 
you have been planting and see the difference. You will find out, as some 
of our customers write us, that “the improved seed would be cheap at 
85.00 per bushel.” 
In a cotton growing contest carried on by us several years ago Mr. 
Eugene Burton, of Lee County, Alabama, grew 1,793 pounds of seed cotton 
from 1 pound of Sure Crop planted. In 1909 I,. Y. & J. T. Montgomery, 
the largest cotton factors of Yazoo City, Miss., were so pleased with Sure 
Crop that early In September they placed an order with us for 4,000 
pounds of seed. The lint of Snre Crop Is especially long, soft and silky, 
and In markets where cotton Is actually graded will bring a premium 
over most varieties; sometimes as high as 86.00 per bale. 
The stock of seed of Snre Crop we have this season was all grown 
on the Hastings* Farm, ginned In our own gin and stored by itself in 
one seed house. We have never had as fine seed of this variety as we have 
this year, the crop being picked without rain on It. Seed are large and 
plump and have not been heated. 
If you plant Sure Crop Cotton you are sure of a crop in spite of 
drought and unfavorable weather conditions. If you plow your land 
deep and use reasonable amounts of fertilizer you are sure of a big crop 
with this variety. We have been with this variety ten years, know it like 
a book, have praised It highly in the past and havenot a word to take back. 
Further, we plant It very largely on the Hastings* Farms for a paying 
crop, which shows our personal opinion of it. 
Pound, postpaid, 35c; 3 lbs., postpaid, Sl.OO; peck, by express or freight, not prepaid, 60c; bushel (30 lbs. Georgia Legal Weight) not prepaid, 
A\XV>A.iO $1.75; 10 bnshels, not prepaid, $15.00; 100 pounds, not prepaid, $5. Freight rate to Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma points is $L08 per 160 lbs. 
