//. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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ON THE HASTINGS’ FARMS 
We have said before that the seed business ot H. G. HASTINGS & CO. is different from that of any other house in this country. It Is true. 
When we or any one else tells you that they have got a “world beater” of a cotton you have a perfect right to ask them to “show you.” Is that 
single stalk of cotton they have a picture of, or the half dozen or dozen nice stalks shown at the fair, grown with special care and fertilizer at 
the rate of a ton or so per acre, all the good plants they have got ? What do their fields look like? These are fair, honest questions that you 
have the right to ask us and everybody else that offers to sell a bushel or a pound of seed. We are going to answer your question. In the 
next few pages we are going to sort of take you down on the HASTINGS’ FARMS and let you look around. We know it’s impossible for most of 
you to come personally, so, through pictures reproduced from photographs, we are bringing our farm to you. We are proud of the work we are 
carrying on, both in seed breeding, seed growing and seed selling and this farm work is the foundation of permanent success. So far as our 
limited space allows we want to show you our testing, breeding and seed growing work. 
PICKING COTTON ON OUR TEST AND BREEDING FARM, TROUP COUNTY. GEORGIA 
The photograph above shows the cotton pickers at work on one of our 
varieties. We think you wiii agree with us that this is fairly good cotton, 
but right here we want you to know that this field did not have extra 
heavy fertiiizing. \Ve used 600 pounds of a regular cotton fertilizer per 
acre and this particular variety turned out around 2 bales per acre. Also, 
the selection of plants for next year's “breeding” work had been made 
and the cotton picked from those extra good plants before this photo¬ 
graph was taken. Our Mr. Starr did not consider anything shown here 
as being up to our standard for next year's breeding stock. We have 
never seen a grower yet that wouldn’t jump at a chance to get some seed 
from plants like these shown here, “just to get a start.” This shows just 
now mr we are in advance of anyone else on this cotton breeding work. 
v\ e have photographs showing these fields in ditfereut stages of 
growth but we take it for granted that the fields ot open cotton, showing 
results, are most Interesting to you. 
On following pages you will see many views of this field work. We 
yy,®’'?*'that nothing shown in these pages is the result of extra 
high fertilizing. We believe in and practice the very best of cultivation, 
but we do not do as some others have in attempting to make record 
yields, use 1.100 to 2000 pounds of commercial fertilizer or guano per acre. 
Our limit has been 600 pounds of a well balanced mixed fertilizer per acre 
Our land is a fair grade of Middle Georgia upland spil, neither poor nor 
extra good. We are doing nothing, outside of our seed breeding, that 
can not be done by any other progressive farmer in the cotton belt. The 
land you see was broken thoroughly to a depth of 11 to 12 inches. After 
that it didn't have a plow in it, O’ur cultivation was entirely with har¬ 
rows and cultivators after the seed was up. We kept the grass killed out 
and the surface soil loose. We had plenty of heat and drought but no 
“shedding.” So far as we are able to learn we have made the best average 
yield per acre in Troup county. The cotton on out Test and Breeding 
Farm was the comment and wonder of every one who saw it. Visitors 
came for miles to see it. It’s on a main road and some of our farmer 
friends starting to town stopped to see it and became so interested that 
they forgot all about town and spent the dav. Now, no farmer headed 
for town is going to forget about it unless there is something to be actu¬ 
ally Interested in. We get so Interested otirselves that it’s often mlghtv 
hard to leave the farm to come back to Atlanta. What you see all through 
is based on medium land, good cultivation and fertilizing as stated 
