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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
TWO BOOKS NOT FOR SALE 
Hastings’ Cotton Book 
We are cotton growers. We want to and try to grow as much cotton per acre as we can. We believe you 
desire to do the same. Every year we find out something new about cotton and cotton growing. We try new 
methods. Some of them succeed and some of them don’t. We have published a Cotton Book for your benefit. It 
is not for sale. It is printed for every one who buys cotton seed from us this spring. It contains full instructions 
of the best methods that we have been able to work out. It tells exactly the methods used by some of our friends 
as well as ourselves who are growing V/ 2 . to 2 bales of cotton per acre. You can do the same if you will use the 
same methods. 
This cotton book is published for a distinct purpose. We grow and sell thousands upon thousands of bushels 
of select cotton seed every year. Even under ordinary cultivation it will make a great deal larger yield than 
common seed but that don’t satisfy us and it ought not to satisfy you. We will not be content until we see the 
whole South in the bale per acre class or over. We know that you can’t get the best results in cotton-growing 
without best methods. It is to our interest as well as your own to have you use best methods. For that reason 
we have gotten up the “Hastings Cotton Book’’ for our customers. If you buy cotton seed of us this year you 
can have a copy free. It is an up-to-date booklet on cotton growing. It contains no untried theories from men 
who grow cotton on paper only but it does tell in detail our methods and those of other good cotton growers who 
can and do make from V/z to 2 bales of cotton per acre. You can do the same. Our object in publishing this 
book free to our customers is this: If you plant our cotton seed by the methods and cultivation outlined in our 
booklet you will be not only successful yourself in the way of a cotton crop, but you will be a standing advertise¬ 
ment for Hastings’ cotton seed. We believe in co-operation and we believe that if you follow the methods out¬ 
lined in our “Cotton Book,’’ you can’t help but be in the bale per acre class or over. 
With all due respect for your methods we believe we have something better than you have, something that 
will make money for you. Our book tells you our methods and those of others. This'information is free to you 
if you order cotton seed from us in any quantity this year. Just order some cotton seed and ask for “Hastings’ 
Cotton Book.” It will be sent you free. 
Hastings’ Corn Book 
What we have said about cotton is equally true of 
section of the United States. The average yield per 
double that or over. Why the low yield per acre? Be 
pay $1.00 to $1.25 per bushel for Northern and West 
a cost of 35 cents per bushel or less? We have recor 
records here of corn grown in Georgia at a cost as low 
Millions of dollars go out of Georgia every year 
other Southern States. It is a useless waste of the Sou 
“Hastings’ Corn Book” is not for sale but it is free 
It contains our best methods. It tells you how to gro 
worth while knowing? 
It’s a combination of right seed and right methods 
in the South more profitable than cotton or almost an 
follow the methods of cultivation outlined in it. They 
We believe in the upbuilding of the South, especi 
more luxuries on Southern farms and with all due res 
growing of profitable corn crops is just as important 
added profit on your cotton. The two are inseparable, 
ably. It’s free if you order seed corn in any quantity 
corn at a cost of not over 35 cents per bushel. If you 
every corn buying customer. 
corn. The South ought to be the greatest corn growing 
acre here in Georgia is about 14 bushels. It ought to be 
cause of poor seed and poor methods of cultivation. Why 
ern corn when it can and is grown right here at home at 
ds here in our office of 160 bushels per acre. We have 
as 24 cents per bushel. 
for corn. What is true of Georgia is true of most of the 
th’s money. Instead of buying corn we ought to be selling it. 
to every customer who buys corn from us this spring, 
w corn at a cost of 35 cents per bushel or less. Isn’t that 
of cultivation and fertilizing that makes a good corn crop 
ything else. It will pay you to have it. It will pay you to 
pay us and they will pay you. 
ally its farm population. We believe in more conveniences, 
pect to “King Cotton,” we know by experience that the 
as cotton. Every bushel of corn produced cheaply means 
“Hastings’ Corn Book” tells you how to grow corn profit- 
and the methods outlined in it will show you how to grow 
have good land it will cost less. Not for sale but free to 
