H. G. Hastings & Co.. Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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MORTGAGE-LIFTER. OUR BIGGEST BOLLED. HEAVY CROPPING COTTON 
Mortgage-Lifter is a superb main crop cotton which begins to open 
medium early and is a continuous b carer uatil killed by frost. You 
get cotton from It from early in the season until killing cold weather 
comes. It is a true, big boiled, five-lock cotton with an exceptionally 
long and fine fibre for an upland or short staple cotton. This variety, 
while firmly set in the boll and holding up well in wind storms is easily 
picked, some of our Texas growers who planted it saying that, 350 to too 
pounds are easily picked per day. 
Mort^a^e-Lifter makes from 3T to 43 per cent. lint. This fact, 
combined with itsextra heavy bearing qualities, makes it one of the finest 
varieties that ever originated in the South. The plant grows large and 
strong; it roots deeply and is a wonderful variety to resist dry weather. It 
HOW MORTGAGE-LIFTER MAOE 
Below we print reports of some heavy yields from various States. 
These yields were made in prize contests of previous years, and you may 
think or say that it’s all very well for “ high pressure’’ crops, but it won’t 
do to pay 81.75 to 82.00 per bushel for seed to plant an entire crop with. 
There are tens of thousands of cotton growers who will and do say that 
“they can’t afford to pay over 50 cents to a dollar a bushel for planting 
seed.” They are mistaken. We want you to rea i the e.vperienee of Mr. 
Ivey, of Wilkinson County. Georgia. It's well worth reading what he says. 
■Mr. Ivey wanted to find out whether it paid to use good seed—not in any 
prize contest, but in just jilain ordinary farm culture, and he thought he 
would risk a few dollars finding out whether good, selected seed paid or 
not. He sent us 817.50 for to bushels of Mortgage-Lifter seed. (It was higher 
priced then than now.) On October 17th Mr. Ivey wrote us as follows: 
“I bought of you last spring 10 bushels of Mortgage-Lifter Cotton Seed 
and had it dropped in hi Is. I have now picked eleven bales and have 2 
or3 bales yet to pick. I had two croppers, each with the same amount of 
the same kind of land. Theirs was planted in common cotton seed, with 
the same cultivation and fertilizer. Theirs is about all picked out and 
one has 6 and the other 7 bales. Mortgage-Lifter will double the yield 
over common cotton. My second picking made 39 pounds of lint to 100 
pounds of seed cotton.” 
grows close and upright and the e.xperlence of our customers who have 
planted Mortgage-Lifter the p.ist 9 ye ir.s shows that it yields two to 
tkree times as much as theordinary varieties with the same cultivation. 
We Introduced Mortgage-Lifter in 1902. It was a good cotton then, 
but our work of “breeding it up" h.is gone on steadily every'your, and 
oar seed for your 1912 planting (far better than ever before) is just as far 
ahead ofthe Mortgage-Lifter of 19J2 as it was ahead of the cornmoa ‘run ot 
the gin” seed. It is today the only highly bred up variety of white 
seeded, big bollel cotton there is in the country. It has the longest lint 
of any short stapled cotton and has brought as high as llj4 cents per 
pound as against a general market price of 9J4 cents. A little point like 
this made a difference of 83.i'2 in the selling price of a 500-pouud bale. 
$332.50 PROFIT IN 7 MONTHS 
No prize cultivation here, just plain, ordinarv. every-day sort of culti¬ 
vation. Hastings’ seed male 7 Bales m.vre Cotton under exactly the 
same conditions than the commo.i seed did. 
Cotton, at the time Mr. Ivey sold, was worth 19 cents per pound and 
as a result of his use of our seed he had 7 extra bales, worth 83.50.0u, ns a 
direct profit or. his Investment of 817.59 6 or 7 months before. It bents 
every “get rich quick scheme” that has ever been put out. It paid Mr. 
Ivey big and it will pay you just ns large profits. 
While we believe In highest culture and good fertilization, we w’ant 
to impress you strongly with the profit from tlie use of our selected liigh 
grade seed. In Mr. Ivey’o case not an extra cent wai spent for labor or 
cultivation; the land and fertilizer was the same, yet he had just double 
what the others had who planted common seed. T ie 817.50 he spent In 
the spring made him a direct cash profit of 8332..50 by fall. He doubled 
this yield simply by iidng good seed. You can do the same in 1912 if you 
get seed direct from us, seed that is being closely selected and br'1 up 
every year. One of your neighbors may have gotton seed of us 2 or 3 
years ago, but the chances are that it has “gone back” and will make 25 
to 50 per cent, le.ss than our own growth, for with ordinary culture and 
the mixture of seed in public gins, pure, high grade seed Is an impossi¬ 
bility except from original sources of supply. 
LOST PER ACRE PUNTING RIS OWN HOME-SAVEO SEEO 
We do not recommend our Mortgage-Lifter Cotton for boll weevil sec¬ 
tions for it is a main crop cotton, but at the same time some of the best 
testimonials we have ever had on Mortgage-Lifter have been from the 
heart of the boll weevil country. One of these we reprint here, more es¬ 
pecially to illustrate again what we have said before as to how much is 
lost by planting seed that has been raised at home with all the “going 
back” there is under general cultivation and thorough gin mixture. 
Mr. Chas. F. Green, ot Hill County, Texas, in making a report to us of 
his cotton crop said: ‘T raised 6,730 pounds of seed cotton from one 
bushel of Mortgage-lLiffer Seed. If any one can beat that without irri¬ 
gation or fertilizer, with Mexican boll weevils to cut off the top crop, they 
are welcome to the prize. I will say that it is the best cotton 1 ever 
saw. I would have made 820.00 more per acre on every acre I planted If 
I had got all my cotton seed from you, as that is the amount I got over 
and above my own cotton with your Mortgage-Lifter. It would have 
paid me well to have paid yon $5.00 per bushel to plant my crop. 
I gat nearly double with your seed just as you said in your catalogue. 
You can hardly over-estimate your seed ” We could fill this entire cata¬ 
logue with statements such as Mr. Green’s that have come in to us fr.im 
customers who have planted our seed in the last 9 years. It shows just 
what gool seed of our best varieties will do as compared with other kinds. 
Y'ou have Mr. Green's experience before you. Above you have the 
experience of a Georgia man with Mortgage-Lifter. Both show now 
easy it is to loss money by planting home-grown seel, not becau-e it’s 
home-grown but because ills inferior seed to that grown for seed purpo.-es. 
This advice is passed out at every Farmer’s Institute, through the 
agricultural papers and every other source, for the farmer to select his 
seed and it’s mighty good advice, too. Can you afford to wait the 5 or 6 
years necessary to bring your own seed u 0 to anywhere near our stand¬ 
ard ? It don’t pay to select your own seed when you can buy (at a ...edi- 
um cost) something better right now. 
We have a South Georgia customer who buys lOO bushels of seed for 
his own planting every year. We asked him one day he was in our olllce 
why he never planted home-grown seed. He replied: “Because the 
best seed I can save myself makes from 5(1 to 75 pounds less lint 
per acre than what I buv from you. Besides I get from 75 cents to Si.OO 
per bushel for all the seed I grow from people down there who are eiilier 
afraid or don’t know enough to send off and get the best seed for them¬ 
selves.” 
Se'd one or two removes from our crop is better than scrub or com¬ 
mon seed but it makes a whole lot less cotton and it don’t take more I lan 
3 years of lack of selection and breeding together with “gin mixing ” to 
make comm > i see 1 of it. You know what seel direct from Hastings is. 
Why take chiuces just to save 25 or 50 cents per acre seed cost'? 
SWORN STATEMENTS OF YIELBS IN HIFFERENT STATES 
We have paid out 82,700.00 in cash prizes during the last 5 years for 
the largest yields of cotton from our seed. We have space for only a few 
> .f these reports of yields in this catalogue, but we give them toyouju t 
to show you what can be done with our magnificent cotton seed in the 
hands of cotton growers. REMEMBER, every one of these reports was 
sworn to before proper officers. 
Al ARAMA Blevins, (lullraan County, planted 1 bushel of Mort- 
rlL/tUnlTI/t gage-Lifter and ma le 14,967 pounds of seed cotton; in 
another year's contest he planted 3 pounds and grew therefrom 9,7u7 
pouiids of seed cotton. 
John I, Watson, Monroe County, planted 3 pounds on I acre and made 
4,074 pounds of seed cotton. This yield was at the rate of nearly 3 bales 
per acre. 
W. C. Naftel, Montgomery County, grew 1,928 pounds of seed cotton 
from 1 pound ot Mortgage-Lifter. 
Milton A. Deese, Dale County, made 5,874 pounds of Mortgage-Lifter 
from 3 pounds of seed. 
Eugene Burton, Lee County, grew 1,793 pounds of Sure Crop from 1 
pound of seed. 
Fred M. Wilson, Winston County, made 1,627 pounds of Mortgage- 
Lifter from 1 pound of seed. 
GFflRniA B. B. Moss, Telfair Countv, made 13,350 pounds of seed 
ULUnUIrl cotton from I bushel of Mortgage-Lifter. 
W. W. Atkinson, Morgan County, in his first year’ trial for prize, 
grew 2,417 pounds of seed cotton fr.im 3 imunds of .Mr . age-Lifter. The 
fallowing year he grew 4,575 pounds of seel cotton on the same ground 
from 3 pounds. 
Jeff Dean, Hart County, made as follows, using Mortgage-Lifter: from 
1 bushel planted, 17,888 pounds of seed cotton; from 3 pounds, 4,3’2u 
pounds; from I pound, 1,538 pounds. 
M. C. Carter, Emanuel County, grew 6,113 pounds of Mortgage-Lifter 
from 3 pounds of seed; further, 716 pounds were picked from 500 stalks, 
some of the stalks producing 4 pounds of seed cotton each. 
inilKIillUil UIQCIQCIPPI O. E. McCasland, Claiborne Parish. La., 
LUU10lilliH"Illl0ul0oirri made 2,459 pounds of seed cotton from 3 
pounds of Mortgage-Lifter. ... 
J. E. Perkins, Harrison County, Miss., made 15,005 pounds of seel cot¬ 
ton from 1 bushel of Mortgage-Lifter. He says: "The best cotton ever 
seen in this section.” 
C. Douglas, Lauderdale County, Miss., made 4.600 pounds from 3 
pounds. J. M. King, Rankin County, made 3,912 pounds from 3 pounds. 
n 1 ^ Q Pound, postpaid, 35 cts.; 3 pounds, postpaid, to yonr address, $1.00; peck, by express or freight not prepaid, 60 cts.; 
I |l I l| p \ bnshel (30 pounds Georgia legal weight), not prepaid, $1.75; 10 bushels, not prepaid, $15.00; 100 pounds, not prepaid, 
* I U U $5.00. Freight rate to Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma points is $1.08 per 100 pounds. 
