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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
GROW MORE GOOD GRASS 
Orchard Grass 
(No. 543) 
We of the South spend most of the summer killing grass in our cotton and corn fields and 
spend most of the winter buying grass in the shape of hay- 
No farming country can he permanently prosperous without grass and live stock, and you can’t 
keep live stock without grass-growing. It's certainly time for the South to do more thinking 
about the “Grass crop,’’ and see it as something to be grown, not “killed.” 
One of our most reliable grasses for the Middle South for 
vrcnarU V'tsy either liay or pasture. While succeeding well on almost 
all reasonably fertile soils it does best on loamy and moderately stiff uplands. Starts growth 
very early in the spring and continues well into the winter. A quick grower and relished by 
stock, e.specially when young, ami bears closest grazing. This grass is probably more cultivated 
tlian any otlier grass in the world. No other grass so easily adapts itself to widely different soils 
and climates, and farmers in all countries hold it in high esteem for both pastures and hay crops. 
Most animals select orchard grass in preference to any other in grazing. It is very easily han¬ 
dled and cured for hay. It is a long-lived grass, with half a chance lasting under good treatment 
thirty to forty years; yet it is easily e.xterminated if the land is wanted for other purposes. Sow 
about -15 pounds per acre in either spring or fall, and cut when in bloom. Present prices: Pound, 
I)ustpaid, 50 cents. Ten-iiound lots or over, not prepaid, highest grade seed, about 35 cents per 
pound. Write for prices when ready to buy. 
InhnCAtl While considered a pest in many parts of the South, it is 
JUIIII9UI1 vw I ) now coming to be recognized as one of our most valuable 
hay and forage plants. In places where its growth can be controlied and kept from spreading 
into cultivated fields there is no other grass that makes such enormous yields of hay. It should 
be cut or mowed just when seed heads begin to form, and furnislies about three cuttings per sea¬ 
son. Tliere is a great demand for the hay, as it is eagerly relished by all classes of stock, and es¬ 
pecially horses. The seed may be planted in early spring or early fall and at the rate of 50 pounds 
per acre will give you permanent summer pasture and hay crop forever. It is very hardy and no 
matter how close it is grazed it will grow and make an excellent quality of hay on most any kind 
of soil. Pound, postpaid, 50 cents. Write for quantity prices when ready to buy. 
TSmnthv^Nn grass suitable only for the northern part of the South, espe- 
I inWiny ^HUi clally hlll and mountain districts. It is the standard hay crop in the 
North and makes one of the most popular, nutritious, and salable of hay grasses. It does not 
make such good pasturage, but the hay crop is great where it is well adapted; on clay or heavy 
loams, lowlands, or in mountain districts, although it will do well on any good, stiff loamy soil, 
provided moisture is abundant. “Red Top or Herd's Grass” and “Meadow Fescue” mature at the 
same time as Timothy and do well, in mixtures with the Timothy. They will increase the yield 
of hay and will largely increase the yield and value of pasturage. Pound, 99% purity or over, 
postpaid, 35 cents. In quantity, not prepaid, about 17 cents per i)ound. Write for prices. 
EAST COAST OR RHODES GRASS 
Introduced into Florida from Australia some eleven years ago this grass has made 
a wonderful success on both the east and west coast sections of Florida, at many 
points along the Gulf Coast in Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana as well as the ’Texas Coast 
country. In what is generally termed tthe “Brownsville section” of 'Texas it is now almost as 
much of a standard hay crop <as alfalfa. 
Our attention was first called to it through a small plot'of it growing near St. Augustine, Flor¬ 
ida, and a little later to it tieing grown on a larger scale further south in St. Lucie County, where 
it showed remarkable results on thin, sandy land, where nothing else had proven satisfactory for 
hay purposes. 
We secured a limited supply of the seed from Australia and were the first American seed house 
to offer it. Soon it had a firm hold as a hay crop on the East Coast of Florida and also proved 
fully successful on the West Coast. 
Experimental plantings in southwest Texas, at Mercedes in the Brownsville section, made good 
right from the start and it’s now recognized as a standard and one of the most profitable crops 
grown in that part of 'Texas. 
One of our customers in 'Texas reported the interesting fact that stock turned in a field to pas¬ 
ture where both alfalfa and Rhodes Grass were growing would not touch the alfalfa once they 
had got a ta.ste of the Kliodes Grass. 
Rhodes Grass is apparently not hardy in the central South for it has winter killed in sections 
over .50 or GO miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. 
For all of Florida, a strip along the Gulf 00 to 60 
miles wide, and in Texas south of San Antonio 
we recommend it unreservedly. 
(2 Tons Hay Per Acre Per Year 
That is a great record yet it’s the result of care¬ 
ful test growth of it at Feilsmere, St. Lucie Co., 
Florida, where the long growing season gives 
more cuttings than elsewhere. 
'The hay is of fine quality grading up almost 
equal to timothy. It is not coarse and has noth¬ 
ing of a pest nature about it. A thorough plow¬ 
ing kills it out. If you live inside the limits set 
above, we certainly advise a trial of it. 
Special Rhodes Grass Circular 
If interested ask for our special circular on 
Rhodes Grass, which goes into this subject more 
fully than is possible for this catalogue. 
Mr. K. E. Evans writes: “I bought seed of you 
last spring for ten acres. It has proven the most 
satisfactory hay maker ever introduced in the 
Lower Rio Grande Valley. You have received sev¬ 
eral orders from those who inspected my crop. 
It has not failed to produce one ton per acre per 
luontb. I will sow it in my alfalfa field so that it 
will soon choke out the alfalfa and the field will 
consist of Rhodes Grass only. It is a weed ex¬ 
terminator.” 
Quarter pound packet, postpaid, 35 
r I cents; pound, $1.00. By express or 
freight, not prepaid, 10-pound lots, about 75c per 
pound. Write for special prices on large quantities. 
Hauling in Kliodes Grass Hay (St. Lucie County, Florida) 
