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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Hastings’ Maine Grown Seed Potatoes 
Hardiest, Most Vigorons and Productive of All Seed Potatoes 
Bliss* Bed Triumph, The Profitable Potato 
We sell none but best Maine grown seed potatoes in full size 
barrels containing 165 pounds (11 pecks). They are honest pota¬ 
toes in honest size barrels. We don’t ship barrel lots in sacks. 
During the months of January, February and March every barrelis 
carefully lined with paper to prevent freezing. Every care is taken 
so that your seed potatoes will reach you in first-class condition. 
Now there is nothing unusual about this; it’s just the HASTINGS 
way of doing everything in connection with the seed business. 
Now just a few words about this whole seed potato business. 
There is a whole lot of humbug aboutit. The bulk of the so- 
called seed potatoes are distributed through produce dealers to mer¬ 
chants and usually at a comparatively low price. Hardly one barrel 
or sack of potatoes in a thousand that is sold in the South has had 
the care in growing that seed potatoes ought to have, and it is no 
wonder that many of the yields in the South are small. 
No less an authority than the Director of the Maine Experiment 
Station, in an address before the American Seed 1 rade Association, 
made the plain statement that very few potatoes shipped from 
Maine had anything more than ordinary farm handling in growing 
the crop and thatlittle effort haa been made to keep potatoes up to 
the standard that seed potatoes should have. 
Don’t think that because a potato comes from Maine it’s all 
right. There are so-called seed potatoes, coming out of Maine 
every year that we would not accept as a gift if we had to sell them 
under our own name. 
It is our constant effort to furnish you the very best that Maine 
produces in seed potatoes in full-sized barrels. We do not sellthe 
usual 10-peck, 150 pounds to the barrel or sack, that is commonly 
on the market, a dishonest short measure, cut-price barrel or sack. 
If you buy from us you get full measure and right quality. 
^ TTk -| • ■■ The most valuable 
JdIiss Ked Iriumpli potato for the south. 
^ We sell five times as 
many Triumphs as all the others combined. It’s adapted to all parts 
of the South, from Kentucky to Florida, from the Carolinas to 
Arizona. It’s an extra early and with our pure Maine-grown seed 
stock it’s the surest producer of any, while its handsome appear¬ 
ance when first dug makes it a ready seller at top prices on any 
market. It withstands heat and drought to a wonderful degree and 
makes a good crop when other varieties burn up and make nothing- 
Vines are smaller than other varieties, the strength of the plant go¬ 
ing into making potatoes rather than into the vine. This is the right, 
potato for you to plant if you want an extra early and sure cropping 
potato of the very best quality. It will give you entire satisfaction 
Peck, 60 cents; bushel, $2.00. Barrel prices of potatoes change 
usually advancing later in the season. Present prices (January and 
February shipment), per barrel, about $4.25. Write for market 
prices. 
T • , ^ KVvl We have been growing Irish Cobbler and we 
kriSU \jODDl©r j( jj, shape it’s much like Triumph; 
color of skin a creamy white slightly netted with lighter color. 
Cooks quickly, is almost pure white, mealy, but not too dry. A. 
good shipper and good keeper for home use and nearby market. 
Peck, 60 cents; bushel, $2.00; full size barrel, 165 pounds of pota¬ 
toes, January and February shipment, $4.50. 
Killing Potato Bugs 
The safest, surest remedy is “Bug Death.’’ 
(Pee page 6G.) 
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Irish Cobbler Potato, a "White Skinned Potato 
Improved Early Hose 
An Improvement on the old-time Early Rose. Peek, 60 ots.; tushel, 
$2.00; per barrel, January and February, about $4.25. 
Beauty of Hebron, Burbank, Peerless and White Triumph 
These varieties carried in stock during planting season. Pk., 60o.;bu., 
S2.00, per barrel, January and February shipment, about84.25. 
Write for Potato Prices 
It is impossible to make exact prices 
on potatoes to hold during the entire 
season, as the prices change almost 
daily. When ready to buy (barrel lots 
or over) write us just what you want 
in variety and number of barrels. 
Quality and prices will be right. 
“An Extra Hand on Yonr Farm” 
Do you want one? One of our customers after reading the Southern Ruralist for 
a year wrote us that it was worth “an extra hand on his farm.’’ Through it he had 
been able to learn how other farmers were doing things with less labor and expense 
than he had and doing it better. The Ruralist costs you through us 25 cents per year, 
just half price, with your money back at the end of three months if you are not satis¬ 
fied. Just enclose 25 cents with your seed order for the Ruralist for one year. 
