II. C. Ilastnii^s dr Co., Seedsmen. Atlanta, Geori^ia 
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Work Worth Doin^ Well 
If there is any place on earth that it pays to do work well it's on the 
farm. You can hear a lot of talk about land beiUK ‘‘worn out.” There's 
mighty little truth in it. it is true that in the hill cotintry of the .South 
thousands and thousands of acres have washed away in spite of the 
‘‘terrace system” so generally practiced. This washing away, this terrac¬ 
ing, the gullies that gash the hill sides are the result 9S) times out of ICO of 
work poorly done. Deep plowing, a thorough breaking of the soil deeply 
will stop three fourths of the washing and make available for your crop's 
thousands of pounds of expensive plant food that you are trying to put 
there in the shape of commercial fertilizer. Its true that. considerable 
plant food has been carried away from the first four or five inches of soil 
that has been cultivated to that depth, but there are vast stores of plant 
food down below that have never been touched. 
We all buy plant food in guano and consider that it pays, but for every 
pound that we buy there are twenty pounds or more in the first foot of 
soil on your farms and ours, waiting to be used. The roots of cotton, corn 
and other crops don’t penetrate that sub-soil and until we make way for 
them by deep plowing they can't get the benefit of that i)lant food that's 
there ready and anxious to be used to your profit and ours. We plow deep 
on the Hastings’ farm. We have jdows there that break the land from 12 
to 16 inches deep and we have never seen ncrop suft’er from drought 
planted on land that was actually broken 1'2 Incdies deep. Our corn don't 
‘‘tire,” our cotton don’t “shed” and our small grains throw up good stiff 
straw, well headed with heavy plump grains. Our forage crops don’ttire 
either on that deeply broken ground. Why? Because the work of prepar¬ 
ation was well done. It is always our idea to give crops every possible 
chance to do full work but we recognize always that we have got to do 
our share and do it well. It's true that we can't plow as many acres 12 
inches or more deep per day with the same horse or mule power thatvve 
would skim over with a ‘‘Boy Pi.vie” plow but we do know by actual ex¬ 
perience that one acre plowed that way will make 3 to 4 times as much 
crop as the shallower idanting. 
PART OF A FIELD OF AMBER SORGHUM BEING CUT FOR HAY ON THE HASTINGS FARM 
The Illustration from a photograph above shows one of our hay crops 
of Sorghum on the Hustings Farm. A crop like this is good for at least 
four tons of hay per acre. We save every ton of hay and “roughage” we 
can on the farms and we have yet to see the year that it did not come 
Into use. 
Above we talked about deep plowing. That calls for horse and mule 
power, horses and mules kept in prime condition all the time. That 
means plenty of grain and hay, good quality of feed all the time. We 
can’t work live stock to full capacity all the time any more than we can 
land without treating it right. Down on the Hastings Farm are stacked 
away several hundred tons of hay and roughage, sorghum, pea vine and 
crabgrass and shredded corn stalks—all baled, bright, clean and sweet. 
Our stock eats it clean. 
Mot one farm out of a hundred in the South makes enough hav and 
forage. Y’ou may be one of the 99. Get lined up to make more in 1911. 
Plan for it—prepare for it. More live stock means more and better farm 
work, a better preparation of the soil. If you have the feed you won't 
hesitate so long about baying more and better mules and horses. Your 
land needs these crops anyhow in a proper rotation. Cowpeas and Soja 
Beans are land builders as well as profitable forage plants. 
Plow deeper, make more forage and hay, keep more live stock and 
the manure put back on the land in connection wiih the deeper plowing 
will double or tripple the yield per acre of your cash crops like cotton. 
Again, you may wonder what all this has got to do with the seed 
business. Just this—we are trying to be good farmers. We do all these 
things ourselves because experience proves that it pays to build up land 
by deep plow ing, crop rotation and manure put into the soil in connectlou 
with tlie use of fair quantities of commercial lertlllzers. 
