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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ SURE CROP 
The Money-Making Cotton for the Planter 
Three HoRs of HASTINGS* Sure Crop Cotton. About Oue-Half Natural Size 
A Sure and Dependable Money-Maker 
We have talked about HastinSs* Sure Crop as being a money-mak¬ 
ing cctton for the planter for many years. It’s one of the varieties that 
gets the iargest acreage on the Hastings’ Farm. Please do not confuse 
this variety with the small-boiled variety sold under the name of “Money 
Maker.” Hastings* Sure Cron is a true big boll cotton, the open bolls 
shown above from a photograph being just about one-half natural size. 
It’s a real first-class, dependable cotton, one that you can always depend 
on to put money in the bank from. Big bolls and the plants full of them. 
For nine years we have grown and watched Sure Crop, and every 
year we grow It we like It better and our cotton seed buying friends think 
just the same as we do about It. 
Sure Crop la a big-boiled cotton, four and five locks (mostly five). 
It’s easy to get varieties of cotton that make good crops under favor¬ 
able conditions, but what you want Is a cotton that makes good crops In 
unfavorable seasons. Sure Crop Is such a variety. 
Sure Crop is a big-boiled four and five-lock cotton. It has been bred 
up to stand either very dry or very wet seasons and It does it. It fruits 
heavily and from the ground up; begins opening almost as early as King’s 
and bears heavily throughout the entire season. It stands severe wind¬ 
storms without losing the lint, at the same time it is easy to pick It will 
make 25 to 40 percent, lint. Sure Crop is well worthy to stand beside 
our other great varieties—Mortgage-Lifter, Bank Account and Rosser 
No. L Sure Crop was originated by a grower well up In the cotton¬ 
growing section. Starting with high grade, big-boll cotton, he crossed It 
with other varieties, giving it greater hardiness, earliness, and heavy 
bearing qualities. Remember, Sure Crop, as well as our other great va¬ 
rieties, are all grown In the high hill section of Georgia. Cotton seed 
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grown up In this section has a vigor that has no equal In any seed grown 
elsewhere in the cotton States. It possesses earliness, heavy bearing 
qualities and a freedom from disease that is not found in any seed grown 
elsewhere. If you doubt this, plant some seed of Sure Crop side by side 
with the common cotton you have been plauting and see the difference. 
You will find out, as some of our customers writes us, that “the improved 
seed would be cheap at 85.00 per bushel.” 
In a cotton growing contest carried on by us several years ago Mr. 
Eugene Burton, of Lee County, Alabama,grew 1.793 pounds of seed cotton 
from 1 pound of Sure Crop planted. In 1909 L. Y. & J. T. Montgomery, 
the largest cotton factors of Yazoo City, Miss., were so pleased with Sure 
Crop that early in September they placed an order with us for 4.000 
pounds of seed. The lint of Sure Crop is especially long, soft and silky 
and In markets where cotton is actually graded will bring a premium 
over most varieties, sometimes as high as 86.00 per bale. 
The stock of seed of Sure Crop we have this season was all grown on 
the Hastings’ Farm, ginned in our own gin and stored by Itself In one 
seed house. We have never had as fine seed of this variety as we have 
this year, the crop being picked without any rain on it. Seed are large 
and plump and have not been heated. 
If you plant Sure Crop Cotton you are sure of a crop In spite of 
drought and unfavorable weather conditions. If you plow your land 
deep and use reasonable amounts of fertilizer you are sure of a big crop 
with this variety. We have been with this variety nine years, know it 
like a book, hfeve praised it highly in the past and h ave not a word to take 
back. Further, we plant it very largely on the Hastings’ Farms fora 
paying crop. 
by express or freiitht, not prepaid, 60c; bn, (30 lbs. Georgia Le4al Weight), not 
So.00. FrftSitht rate to Texasp Arkansas and Oklahoma points is Sl.lfi per lOl) Iba. 
