H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
CONVERTED TO HASTINGS' PROLIFIC 
We reproduce the following from our 1919 catulogue because it’s a good story of the 
experience of a Georgia fanner. 
Up in North Georgia on one of the finest corn farms in the South, run by a live pro¬ 
gressive man, corn has been the principal crop for years. This farm has been noted 
for the fine corn produced and this man and his tenants have taken great pride in a 
certain “big-eared” variety grown on that farm for almost a life time. 
We often toid him he couid make far more corn with Hastings’ Prolific, but he 
didn’t believe it. He was, iike thousands of others, prejudiced against the smaller 
eared prolific types of corn. However, we persuaded him to plant some Hastings’ 
Prolific, His tenants, however, insisted on the old, big-eared standby. 
This man and his tenants needed an object lesson and they got it in the summer of 
191G. Most of our Georgia and Aiabama friends rememljer the floods of tliat year that 
swept away practically all tlie corn on creek and river bottoms. 
Our friend, like the others, was overflowed and lost most of his crop. When he 
gathered the limited amount left he found th.it everything but the Hastings’ ITadiflc 
was ruined. The Hastings’ Prolific with its heavy waterproof sluick ami solid sound 
ears stood these damaging conditions well. He had corn from the Hastings’ Prolific 
where his iife-time favorite faiied completely. 
The next year over 400 acres were grown on this farm and he told us that his ten¬ 
ants begged for Hastings’ Proiific to plant. Not only this but the Hastings’ Prolific 
crop of 1917 was the finest ever grown on that farm, making a yield never equalled by 
their old favorite variety. 
Actual experience converted this big North Georgia farmer to Hastings’ Prolific 
just as it converts every man who plants the genuine seed direct from Hastings’. 
Hastings’ Prolific Corn certainly has got a reputation and a mighty good one at 
that. No other variety is so generaily planted on Southern farms as is Hastings’ 
Prolific and when it once gets started on a farm it stays. 
Now aimost everybody knows that Hastings’ Prolific holds more high yield per 
acre records than any other variety planted in the United States, these going all the 
way up to the 214 bushels and 40 pounds made by Ben Leath of Walker County, Geor¬ 
gia, in 1911, and the 214 bushels and 51 pounds made by J, Jones Polk, Jefferson Davis 
County, Mississippi, in 1913. 
We could fill this entire catalogue with Boys’ Corn Club prize yield records from 
every Southern state made during the past seven or eight years. We could go into 
detail showing particulars of how Hastings’ I’rollfic won highest honors in Georgia 
six years out of seven, etc. 
It’s hard to find a fanner in the South who hasn’t heard of Hastings’ Prolific favor¬ 
ably, They know it’s a corn of fine reputation, not a reputation gained by advertis¬ 
ing but a reputation gained by “making good” in every county of every state in the 
South. It’s a top-of-the-list variety no matter whether it be in prize contests or 
whether it be in the field of the smallest tenant farmer. 
The host of imitations cropping up each year under the names of Smith’s or Jones’ 
or Brown’s Prolific, etc., are direct evidence of the popularity and value of Hastings’ 
Proiific. 
It has “made good” on the poorer grades of sandy soil as well as the rich river bot¬ 
toms, on the red clay hills of the Piedmont section of Alabama, Georgia and the Caro- 
linas, on the “black waxy” lands of Texas, on Mississippi delta. Hastings’ Prolific 
has a good reputation and deservedly so. 
76 BUS. PER ACRE ON FLORIDA SANDY SOIL 
It’s not so much a question of the number of acres you plant in corn as it is the va¬ 
riety and quaiity of seed of that variety. If you plant properly grown and selected 
seed of that best of all variety for the South, HASTINGS’ PKOLIFIC, you come as 
near insuring a fuil corn crib from your corn acres as is humanly possible. 
Florida’s sandy soils are not looked on as being iiable to break any world’s record 
in corn yields and they have not. We want you to look at the picture on opposite page 
showing a small section of a field of HASTINGS’ PROUIFIC grown by Frank E. 
Walker, of Nassau County, I’lerida. Frank is less than 18 years old, he planted on 
sandy soil and gathered 76 bushels per acre. How does your bottom land compare 
with this ? 
—Hastings’ Prolific requires a fairly long season to develop hard 
VcSCl l|JHUil corn, 120 to 130 days. Stalk is large, 8 to 12 feet tall, according 
to soil and season, rooting deeply. Stalk and blades are large and vigorous. Ears of 
medium size, two or more to the stalk, depending on the distance given and the grow¬ 
ing conditions. On good, strong land where the corn has distance of 24 to .30 inches 
in the row, it often makes 4 to 6 ears to a stalk. 'The ears are well filled out and 
weigh from 8 to 12 ounces. The grains are deep, white and hard. The cob is small. 
Seventy pounds of ear corn will usually shell out 61 to 63 pounds of grain. Shuck is 
heavy and covers the ear tightly, keeping out birds and insects and preventing ioss in 
late, wet seasons, when other corn rots badly on account of storm injury. The best 
corn for grain production, for roasting ears, for making meal, and for stock feeding. 
BUY YOUR SEED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES 
There is one safe place to buy Hastings’ Prolific and that is from us. It’s impos¬ 
sible to keep seed corn pure when grown on small farms. By owning and controlling 
thousands of acres our corn crops are isolated sufficiently to practically insure purity. 
Besides we are constantly at work breeding Hastings’ Prolific. Our seed this year 
is fully 25 per cent better and more prolific and productive than that of three years 
ago. Come to headquarters and be sure of what you plant. 
Prices of Hastings’ Proiific, Prize-Winning Seed 
Packet, 10 cents; 1 pound, 25 cents; 2-Ib. package, 45c; postpaid. By express or 
freight, not prepaid, 14 lbs. (peck), $1.25; 56 lbs. (bus.), $4.50; 112 lbs. (2 bus.), $8.75. 
Hastings’ Prolific 
The Corn That 
“Makes Good” 
