//. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Geoigia. 
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We have been working with all kinds and varieties of cotton for a great many years. We have made a special 
study of the big boll varieties, recognizing that they had many desirable points that could never be “bred” into the 
small boll sorts. 
We feel fully justified in naming this new variety the “Union” Big Boll Cotton. In it are united more good points 
that go to make up a perfectly desirable Big Boll Cotton for the planter than have ever been combined in any one 
variety of cotton before. 
It is a true type of Big Boll Cotton, the bolls running 55 to 60 to the pound. The seed are white, with greenish 
tinge and are medium in size. It has good lint and the lint per cent is from 38 to 40, remarkably high for a genuine 
big boll variety. It is a genuine 4 to 5 lock, easy to pick, yet storm resistant cotton. It is a remarkably healthy variety, 
very resistant to diseases affecting the cotton plant. The bolls and the fibre develop almost perfectly. This variety 
showed less “motes” than any other variety in our test grounds where 42 varieties were grown. 
We don’t force cotton in our test grounds with excessive fertilizing. We give good cultivation. “Union” Big Boll 
turned us in our variety test work 784 pounds of lint per acre, a good bale and a half. Under high fertilizing, such as 
not one cotton grower in a thousand would be willing to give, we have made it turn out at the rate of over 4 bales per 
acre. We don’t want to set that as a standard for you or any one else unless you are ready to give it practically 
“garden cultivation.” If you use good methods of cultivation and fair fertilizing you can reasonably expect iy 2 to 2 
bales per acre from “Union” Big Boll. It won’t do it on washed out hill side lands, plowed 3 to 4 inches deep and fer¬ 
tilized with 200 pounds of 8-2-2 guano per acre. You nor anybody else can get big yields from starved-out plants of 
cotton or anything else. 
The great underlying principle of that great organization the “Farmers’ Union” is co-operation. It’s a grand 
principle and needs a wider application than it gets. Now our new “Union” Big Boll Cotton is the best big boll cotton 
on the market, but you must do your part. If you want to get in and stay in the bale and a half to two bales per 
acre class you can, by planting “Union Big Boll” and then co-operating with it with deep plowing, liberal fertilizing, 
right cultivation. If you do your part “Union” Big Boll will co-operate with you to the fullest extent in turning to you 
the most profitable crop of cotton you ever made. 
The Boll Weevil is coming east fast. It reached Southwestern Alabama last fall and it’s only a matter of a few 
years until the boll weevil covers the entire cotton belt. This fact should be recognized and prepared for. The com¬ 
ing of the boll weevil means practically the wiping out of the large, heavy leaf varieties such as Russell, Christopher, 
Wyche and a dozen others. You must plant varieties that make little shade if you expect to grow cotton with boll 
weevils around. 
Successful crops are being made with small boll varieties in the weevil sections, but many planters object to the 
small sized bolls. 
Good for Boll Weevil Sections 
“Union” Big Boll has light open foliage. It lets the sun in to all parts of the plant and leaves no hiding place for 
the weevil. It is early. Like our Bank Account Cotton, it will make good crops before the weevil gets in his work. 
It fruits quick and close and the big bolls make it easy to pick, thus avoiding the objections to small boll varieties. It 
unites all the good points of the big boll class with ability to make the crop quick enough to avoid the weevil damage. 
While we have never offered “Union Big Boll for sale before and hesitated to do it this year because our supply of 
seed of it is so limited, yet we know its great value. It’s just the big boll cotton that Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi 
have been asking for since the weevil came; it’s just the kind of big boll cotton that Alabama, Georgia and the Caro- 
linas will have to plant when lhe weevil reacnes them. If you are in the weevil district or anywhere that the season is 
short and want to plant big boll cotton, “Union” Big Boll will please you. If you are in Alabama, Georgia or the Caro- 
linas, the time to get ready for the weevil is now. Change your varieties; get a start this year of varieties that will 
make cotton in spite of the weevil. The great damage from Boll Weevil comes from being unprepared for it. With 
“Union” Big Boll Cotton and right methods of cultivation the boll weevil can’t do you a great deal of damage. While 
we don’t expect the weevil on the Hastings’ Farms for at least three years we are changing varieties now to be pre¬ 
pared when it comes. What is good for us is good for you in that respect and “Union” Big Boll is the right variety of 
big boll cotton for us and for you. Seed supply limited. Order early. 
Prices 
Pound, postpaid, 50 cents; 2,% pounds postpaid, $1.00. Peck not prepaid75 
cents; Bushel (30lbs. Georgia legal weight) $2.50; 100 pounds $7.00. Freight 
rate to Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma points, $1.16 per 100 pounds. 
