//. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta. Georgia. 
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GEORGIA CHAMPION CORN 
On the opposite page we reproduce a photograph of our 
Georgia Champion Corn just as it stood in one of our fields 
growing for seed. Hr. Stephens, who superintends all of our 
seed corn growing in North Georgia stands to the left. If the 
printer does his work right you can easily see the strong vig¬ 
orous growth of this variety on valley land. 
While we have been growing this variety, which we now 
offer under the name of Georgia Champion, for three years, we 
W'auted to be sure of its heavy cropping qualities before we 
offered it for sale. We have tried it uuderdroughtconditlons, 
w e have tried it under excessive rains and it has made for us 
equally well under both conditions. It’s a safe corn both for 
you and for us. 
We don't recommend our “Georgia Champion” for poor 
land unless it is well prepared and well fertilized. Any corn 
with its great vigor and heavy cropping qualities is not going to 
do its best unless properly fed. This comes through either 
naturally strong soil or else heavy fertilizing. It you can give 
either of the^e conditions our “Georgia Champion” is not go 
ing to disappoint you. 
At no time In the past has there ever been such interest in 
corn growing in the South as at the present time and we are 
glad to see it. Not because we sell seed corn, but because, once 
interest is thoroughly aroused as to corn in the South we w ill 
be selling corn instead of buying it. Do you know that cornt 
comes into Atlanta by the trainload every week? Some of tha- 
is cousumed here in Atlanta, but the vast bulk of it goes out».i 
to the country to feed the mules and horses that are making 
cotton. That corn is being sold at from $ 1.00 to $1.25 per bushel 
out in the country where it can be grown at a cost not e.xceed- 
ing 35 cents per bushel w'ith varieties like Georgia Champion. 
IleaUy,it’3 about the most fooli-h thing w'e ever knew, the 
Southern farmer paying gl.OO to $1.25 per bushel for corn that 
he can produce at a cost not exceeding 35 cents per bushel. 
Guy Collins, an Early County, Georgia, boy, grew corn at a 
cost of 24 cents a bushei (see page 6(1) and the grown up farmer 
spending his labor and time and money on about all his land, 
growing cotton at a cost of 8 to 10 cents per pound to sell at 13 
to 15 cents. Don't think we are kicking about growing cotton 
for we are not. It's the finest crop in the worid when handled 
right. It ought not to cost over 5 cents per pound to grow it 
and it won't if you grow your own corn and hay and forage 
from good seed. “Georgia Champion” is one of those varieties 
of corn that you can grow “feed corn” from at a cost not ex¬ 
ceeding 35 cents per bushel in the South. 
We have talked and advocated the use of prolific varieties 
of corn. We do yet but we recognize the fact that there are 
lens of thousands of farmers in the South that waut and insist 
on having a ’ big eared” corn. If you are one of those thous¬ 
ands our Georgia Champion is one of the right varieties of corn 
for you. On the opposite page is part of a field, on this page is 
an illustration from a photograph of ears from our seed crop. 
Please note how the ears are filled out clear to the tip. This 
shows “breeding.” You never see sorry corn fill out like these 
ears. They represent the right kind of seed corn, the kind that 
is putting on grain wherever there is any room to make grains. 
On the last page of our cover you will see the natural size of 
Georgia Champion grains. It has about the largest, finest, 
whitest grains of any corn we have ever seen and we are sure 
it will please you either for meal, for stock feeding or for 
“roasting ears.” The growth is strong and vigorous, plenty of 
lar;e blades either for “fodder pulling” or for “shredding.” 
d he ears are large, 10 to 13 inches long and well filled out, one 
and two to the stalk. 
Prices ior seed of “Georgia Champion** ^rown in 
field shown in photograph on opposite pai^e. Packet, lO 
cents; 34 pint, 120 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, ,*>0 cents; 
postpaid. Peck, not prepaid, $1,00; bushel, $3.30. 
Hastings’ 
Prolific Corn 
Greatest producer of grain and forage known. Winner of 
hundreds of prizes for heaviest yield per acre in all the South¬ 
ern States. See last and next to last page of cover of this cata¬ 
logue for description and illustration. Packet, 10 cents; 34 
pint, 20 cents; pint. 30 cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid. Peck, 
not prepaid, $1.00; bushel, $3.50. 
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