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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ PROLIFIC CORN (No. 140) 
Hastings’ Prolific, Finest in Quality 
A Wonderful Producer of Grain and 
Forage—The Prize-Winning Corn 
of the South for You to Plant. 
No man in the South that we know of ever got into trouble by having too much corn, the 
product of his own acres, or too many hogs to tlnish off on corn. 
We have never heard of any man going “broke" on a farm in the South where it was the 
regular practice to grow enough corn and other grain and feedstuffs to see that farm through 
until another crop was ma<le. 
On the other hand Atlanta and other cities and towns of the South contain tens of thousands 
of financial wrecks from the farms who went "broke” trying to grow all cotton or nearly all 
cotton and depending on that cotton to pay store bills for corn and foodstuffs that could have 
been made on those home acres at from one-third to one-half the merchants’ price. 
We liave lieen studying up the "after conditions” of other great wars and tlie unbroken line 
of experience is that food prices stay up following peace regardless of what cotton, wool and 
clothing commodities do. Tills war and the end of it has increased I’ather than decreased food 
demand and that means high food prices. 
Cotton may or may not go higlier. It certainly won’t if we continue to plant as near up to 
"the graveyard” as we have and nature favoi's a good yield. The price may be higli or it may 
be low but the fellow who is hit is the one that has to pay $2.00 or thereabouts for corn and 
other food and grain in proportion. High food prices are a certainty for a couple years more. 
High corn prices hurt and hurt only the man who has corn to buy. He who makes corn 
enough to see him through and to sell can sit back at ease in mind and pocket regardless of 
whether the price be high or low. 
The great Stock Show at the great Southeastern Fair at Atlanta last fall, the largest in the 
world except the National Show, at Chicago, along with the Boys’ Corn Club Show, surely 
made hundreds of Southern farmers stop to think what they might have done instead of let¬ 
ting the boll weevil eat up their cotton crops last summer and fall. Those farmers and other 
up-to-date farmers will plant corn this year as they never did before and they will rotate their 
crops and build up their land as they never have before. 
Labor has been scarce and high and everything the farmer buys in town has been just that 
high too. The big demand has outgrown the supply and the farmer who will make the money 
on this opportunity will be the one who raises absolutely everything possible that’s needed on 
his place and then sells his cash crop for cash. It’s the only safe way. 
