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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Hastings’ Cabbage Seed ‘‘Making Good” in Texas 
6 HEADS GROWN BY MR. NEW NOAKES, NEAR CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 
Mr. and « Heads of HasUngs* Centennial Flat Hnicli Cabbage Grown in Southwest Terras 
Photographs don’t lie. They 
show exactly what is there. 
That’s one reason why we use 
nearly this entire page to re¬ 
produce this photograph of 
Mr. New Koakes, of Nueces 
County, Texas, and 6 heads of 
‘■Hastings’ Centennial Flat 
Dutch Cabbage.” Mr. Noakes 
had this photograph taken 
and sent it to us and we are 
reproducing it for your beiie- 
tit, showing you what our 
cabbage seed 'ivill do. 
There are two things for you 
to keep in mind. First, these 
are not speciaily selected 
heads, but taken from a load 
just as they were cut in the 
field and brought to town. 
Second, the seed which Mr. 
Noakes bought and grew these 
heads from is exactly the 
same quality that we send you 
■when you order from us. We 
have no favorites among our 
customers in seed quaiity. 
Every one gets the same qual¬ 
ity and that quality isthebest 
that can be grown. The high 
quality of our cabbage seed as 
shown in this iiiustration is 
thereal reason why more than 
60,000 acres of cabbage are 
planted every year from 
Hastings* Cabbage Seed. 
This illustration shows just 
what the combination of right 
seed, right man and goodiand 
make, but if the seed is not 
right, the man and land don’t 
count for much in the result. 
The seed has got to be right 
for you to make a success. 
OUR RIGHT SEED 
Cabbage is the most import¬ 
ant of the Southern vegetable 
crops. It's a standard crop on 
every Southern truck farm; it 
finds an important place in 
every family garden. Yet 
there is no crop grown that 
depends more for its success 
on the quality of the seed 
planted. A packet of Hast- 
iugs’ Cabbage Seed will easily 
make from 50 to 75 more good 
solid heads than a packet of 
seed from the commission 
boxes at the store. It is not a 
question of having “good 
luck” with your cabbage, it's 
a ciuestlon of starting cabbage 
with right seed. 
Hastings* Cabbage Seed nev¬ 
er fails to make a good, solid, 
salable or eatable head of cab¬ 
bage to every plant when 
treated right. 
WHY YOU FAILED 
We believe that there is 
hardly a person who reads 
this catalogue that has not 
made a failure with cabbage 
(and a good many other 
tilings as well) in the past, 
when they depended on the 
cheap cabbage seed frommer 
chants and drug stores. Why 
is it'( Simply because t h at 
seed has not been grown right. 
It's grown to sell cheap. It's 
grown so that your merchant 
or druggist can make a clear 
profit of 40* on it. His big 
profit is made at the expense 
of your success, and if you 
continue to buy and plant 
that kind of cabbage and 
other seed you are to blame 
for your failure. 
