//. G. JIasiings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
OUR <^BANK ACCOUNT” COTTON 
OUR EARLIEST EXTRA EARLY, EXTRA PROLIFIC COTTON 
This was the fourth distinct variety of cotton introduced by us, and in all respects for an extra early cotton it is the best. The re¬ 
sult of fourteen years' close breeding and selection for an extra early prolific type. The illustration on opposite page, reproduced from a 
photograph of a single sttilk shows what can be done with “Bank Account" under the best of cultivation. 
“Bank Account" is not a chance variety. It has been bred with a distinct purpose in view. We wanted the earliest cotton we could 
get; a prolific cotton that would come up in yield to the later sorts; reasonably storm-proof and produce a quality of lint that would 
sell at top-of-the-market prices. It's an absolutely safe variety of cotton for boll weevil and short gr<»wing season districts where quick 
growth and maturity counts above all else. It's the one safe extra early variety of cotton. It has deep rooting characteristics that en¬ 
able it to resist drought remarkably well for an early cotton. 
It's our honest and candid opinion that our improved “Bank Acco unt" is the best extra early cotton ever offered. 
A COTTON FOR BOLL WEEVIL SECTIONS 
Gets Ahead of the Boll Weevil ?ount - A% 
cotton to get ahead of the boll weevil. It makes a good crop before 
tlie boll weevil has any chance to get in his work, and for this rea¬ 
son the “Bank Account” cotton is worth millions upon millions of 
dollars to the cotton growers in boil weevil sections. Every year 
the weevil moves North and East. If you are already in a boll 
weevil sections you need this variety. It opens earlier than other 
extra earlies, and it doesn't blow out or drop out as quickly. It’s 
a heavier bearer and makes better and longer lint. It roots deeply, 
resisting both drought and storms. It branches well and has light 
open foliage, letting in the sun perfectly to all parts of the plant. 
It doesn't have dense shade for Mr. Boll Weevil to hide away in. 
This gets you in ahead of the boll weevil in boll weevil sections, 
and in any section it enables you to market long before any other 
variety is ready. 
An All-Purpose Cotton 
of cotton best for all sections, all lauds and all seasons, but our 
“Bank Account” cotton will come nearer being an all-purpose cot¬ 
ton for all sections than anything we have ever seen. We have tried 
it under all sorts of soil conditions from Middle Georgia to the Ten¬ 
nessee line, in uplands and in bottoms, and it has “made good” 
everywhere it has been planted. It posses.ses a vigor that enables 
it to go on and make a fair crop when other varieties have died out 
completely from droughts. It is hardy, remarkably so. Every cot¬ 
ton farmer east of the Mississippi River remembers the difficulties 
in getting a stand in 1007. Four or five plantings were frequently 
necessary, and even with that the stands were poor. Every one of 
our growers of the “Bank Account” cotton got an almost perfect 
stand with the first planting in 1007. You can’t find a hardier, 
more vigorous, more prolific cotton than “Bank Account.” 
Bale or More Per Acre in the Boll Weevil District 
Louisiana has probably suffered more from the boll weevil than 
any of the other states. Read the following from one of our cus¬ 
tomers writing to the Southern Ruralist. E. E. Robinson, DeSoto 
Parish, La., wrote: “Before the boll weevil came our land would 
yield one-half bale per acre of common cotton. The first year they 
came we made 2 bales on 15 acres. We quit raising it for two years. 
Last year we planted 15 acres again, 13 acres in big boll cotton, 
from which we gathered four bales; 2acres in‘New Bank Account’ 
Cotton which we bought from H. G. Hastings Co. We made 2 
bales from those 2 acres regardless of Mr. Weevil.” That tells the 
story exactly. Bank Account makes a good crop before the weevil 
can destroy it. Bank Account fruits faster than boll weevils breed. 
E. Hagin, Harrison County, Mississippi, writes us: “I wish to 
say your Bank Account Cotton Seed was fine. I made 14,000 pounds 
which turned out 10 bales weighing 500 pounds each. We had so 
much rain in the spring that we were 30 days late planting, then, 
too, we had too much rain all during the season and a lot of Boll 
Weevils. We had some of the native seed planted at same time 
which onl.v turned out about half the cotton that Bank Account 
gave us. We certainly recommend the Bank Account Cotton here. 
I expect to plant 100 acres in Bank Account in 1920.” 
B. F. Watley, Union County, Arkansas, writes: “Your Bank Ac¬ 
count is the cotton I was looking for. It fruits good and is the 
extra early cotton. It grows thrifty and is the early variety that 
beats the Boll Weevil to its maturity.” 
From hundreds of reports received in October, 1919, on the 1919 
crop results with the worst rains and boll weevils imaginable, 94% 
were very enthusiastic about Bank Account, practically all saying 
it beats all others. 4% were satisfied with results. 1% said it was 
too early to report. One man said it wouldn’t do. Two said they 
were drowned out and didn't replant. 
Changing Cotton Seed This Year? 
Thousands of cotton growers will want to “change seed” this 
year. The boll weevil has made a tremendous advance since last 
spring, and many of our customers have found that the old vari¬ 
ety of cotton that they have been growing successfully, wUl not do 
under weevil conditions. They realize that they must have a 
quicker fruiting, earlier fruiting variety. 
To show you just what this Improved Type of Bank Account 
Cotton has done for us this past year, we had, on our farm, one 
field of seven acres and another field of fifteen acres. From the 
seven-acre field we have picked, at this writing, October 1.5th, over 
nine bales of cotton, running from 450 to 475 pounds. From the 
fifteen-acre field we have picked over a bale per acre, and have a 
good picking yet to gather. We don’t know how these results will 
appeal to you, but they have proved to us, mighty clearly, that 
this Improved Type Bank Account is the thing for us to plant. 
Neighbors of ours, who have been watching this variety in the 
field, have asked us to book their order for seed at $4.00 per 
bushel. The seed of the Bank Account offered in this catalog is 
this improved type, and j’ou cun be sure that you are getting just 
as good as the best, no matter what price you may pay us. 
Now, furthermore, the weevil appeared in these two fields of 
Bank Account Cotton last summer earlier than they did in any 
other variety we had. We found punctured squares in the fifteen- 
acre field on Sunday, June 29th, and on the following day we found 
them in the seven-acre field: these were the first signs of weevils 
that we found on the farm this summer, and yet this Bank .\ccount 
Cotton made easil.v twice as much cotton per acre as other vari¬ 
eties in which we did not find weevils until later in the summer. 
Bank Account Cotton, of our improved type, does not fruit all 
at once and then quit, as some extra early varieties do; it begins 
fruiting low on the plant, and keeps growing and fruiting through¬ 
out its period of growth. Anyone who has had experience in grow¬ 
ing cotton under weevil conditions knows that this is a mighty 
important thing. Early in the season, when the weevils are scarce, 
every day that the cotton is fruiting and putting on squares, it is 
gaining that much on the weevil, and if it has been properly fer¬ 
tilized and is worked right, it gets a good crop on the plant before 
the weevil catches up with it and begins taking all squares as 
soon as they show up, which is what happens late in the summer, 
from early August on. 
We believe fully that farmers throughout the middle South can 
make cotton under weevil conditions, if they go at it right. One 
of the “rightest” things you can do is to plant our Bank Account 
Cotton, of this improved type that we are offering this year. It 
certainly will pay you to change your seed. You may have a good 
cotton, and you may hate to give it up. and you may decide to 
risk it one more year anyhow. All right, you can take the chance 
if you wish to, but remember, the boll weevil is no respecter of 
your opinion, and if your pet cotton fits in exactl.v with his needs, 
he will take your crop an(l not even sa.v thank you. 
Therefore, we want to say most earnestly to our friends and cus¬ 
tomers. from our own experience, plant our Improved type of Bank 
Account Cotton, if you are in boll weevil territory now, or think 
that you will be during the summer of this good year 1920. 
A FORTY PER CENT LINTING COTTON 
Fourteen years is a pretty fair test on what cotton will do. Every year its heavy per cent of lint is a surprise to those who plant it. 
In the fourteen years we have grown it the crops have never averaged less than 40 and two years as high as 43 per cent of lint. 
OAlfl Rnttnm I anrle There are hundreds of thousands of acres of cold bottom lands that are risky to plant in cotton. 
■ "**■•»** Plantings on this sort of land are necessarily late and much of the time the crop is lost because 
the bolls won’t open. “Bank Account” cotton is just the right variety to make a perfectly safe crop on bottom lands. Its naturally open 
growth and light foliage lets the sun in and the cotton opens just as well as it does on the uplands. We had a field planted on cold bot¬ 
tom land in North Georgia. It made a fine crop from May 2f)th planting and killing frost on October 13th, and it opened perfectly. 
“Bank Account” Cotton, pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 3 pounds, postpaid, .$1.00; 10 pounds, not prepaid, $1.35; thirty 
pounds (Georgia legal bushel), $3.00; one hundred pounds, not prepaid, $9.00. 
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