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//. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
The Cabbage 
Seed Shortage 
We have been in the seed business for 22 years and in nli those years vre have 
never seen as near a complete crop failure of cabbage seed as in lllll. JIany of the 
most popular and most valuable varieties have turned out less than 30 per cent, of 
a normal crop while some varieties liavegone as low as 10 per cent. We were 
fortunate in having large acreages growing for us end exjiect to be able to take 
care of our regular trade this spring, but naturally our prices on cabbage seed, as 
well as all other seedsmen, are much higher than in recent years. We don't like 
the present situation on cabbage seed but can't help it when Mother Nature won't 
produce the usual quantities. While we are talking about this cabbage shortage 
we want to say that while seed crop shortages in one or more lines come every 
year, we have never seen such heavy shortages and in so many kinds of vege¬ 
tables as last year. It Is true of both American and Foreign seed crops. Manv 
items we have had to leave out of our catalogues this year. Cold, floods, hot 
winds, heat and drought in almost all parts of the world where seeds are grown 
have plaved a part in bringing about these shortages. 
Nature has not been kind to seed growers during the past three years and we 
sincerely hope that 191'2 will see better growing conditions. 
We will do our best to care for your orders for cabbage and all the other short 
items but there is a limit to the quantity of seed we have and with these short 
supplies our advice is to send in your order at the earliest possible date. 
Of the Greatest 
Importance to 
Every Buyer of 
Cabbage Seed in 
the South 
50,000 ACRES OF CABBAGE 
or more are planted every year in the Southern States from Hastings’ Cabbage Seed. The first year we were in business we didn't sell enough cab¬ 
bage seed to plant 100 acres. The difference between the 100 acres then and the 50,000 acres now means only one thing, and that is that Hastings’ 
Cabbage Seed makes good wherever it's planted. Cabbage, more than almost any other crop, is dependent on the quality of the seed for success. No 
matter how good your soil; how well you cultivate or fertilize it, if the cabbage seed isn't the right nuality you make a failure to a greater or less degree. 
You can't be too particular about the quality of cabbage seed, and if there is one thing that we are more careful about than any other it is with our cab¬ 
bage seed crops. Every head that is planted out for seed purposes is carefully inspected by one of the great cabbage experts of the country and, unless 
it is right in every respect, it is not planted. Our first, last and all-the-time'idea in cabbage seed is “right nnalily,’’ and every buyer of Hastings’ 
Cabbage Seed gets the very best seed that motley and experience can produce. We have only one grade—the very best that can be grown—and the 
buyer of a 5 or 10-cent packet gets exactly the same quality as does the big trucker or market gardener buying in 60to 100-pound lots. Cabbage isthe 
most Important of all the Southern vegetable crops, it's a standard crop on every truck farm and finds a place in almost every Southern home garden, 
and we cau't impre.sson you too strongly, first, that you ought, if you want to be successful, to plant the best cabbage seed; and second, that Hastings’ 
Cabbage Seed iS just the quality to give you right results. 
Mississippi 
Grows Some 
Cabbage Also 
In a recent catalogue we 
printed the illustration of 
Mr. Noakes of Corpus 
Christi, Texas, and six 
heads of Centennial Flat 
Dutch Cabbage, the six 
heads weighing 9714 lbs. 
shown on the opposite 
page. This interested Mr. 
D. D. Cowan of Uancock 
Co., Miss., who sent us the 
photograph of what h e 
did in Mississippi with 
Hastings’ Cabbage Seed. 
Mr. Cowan wrote us that 
his crop of cabbage went 
through 2 monthsof .severe 
drought and then made 
cabbage like this. Mr. 
Cowan and Mr. Noak-s 
are both good truck farm¬ 
ers, and Texas and Missis¬ 
sippi are both good States, 
but getting right down to 
bottom facts, all their work 
and Intelligent efforts 
would have been lost if 
they had not had the 
right seed. 
H astings’ Cabbage Seed 
never fails to make good, 
solid, heads of cabbage to 
every plant when treated 
right. It's not a question 
o f having - good luck " 
with your cabbage; it's a 
question of rightseed, ami 
right seed is noton sale at 
country stores or in com¬ 
mission boxes. Most of 
the failures on cabbage in 
the South come where 
seed is bought from mer¬ 
chants and small stores. 
William Murdock Co'wan and Four Heads of Hastinjis’ Centennial Flat Dntch Cabbage 
Grown at Caesar, Hancock Co., Miss. Weight of Cabbage 50 Pounds 
