H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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Hastings’ Cabbage Seed ‘‘Making Good” in Texas 
6 HEADS GROWN BY MR. NEW NOAKES, NEAR CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 
Hr. rVew and 6 Haada of Haatinda* Centennial IHat Duteli Cabbade Grown in Sontbweat Texao< 
Fhotographs don’t He. They 
show exactly what is there, 
That's one reason why we use 
nearly this entire page to re¬ 
produce this photograph of 
Mr. New Noakes, of Nueces 
County, Texas, and 6 heads of 
“Hastings’ Centennial flat 
Dutch Cabbage.’’ Mr. Noakes 
had this photograph taken 
and sent it to us and we are 
reproducing it for your bene¬ 
fit, showing you what our 
cabbage seed will do. 
There are two things for you 
to keep in mind. First, these 
are not specially selected 
heads, but taken from a load 
just as they were cut in the 
row and brought to town. 
Second, the seed which Mr. 
Noakes bought and grewthese 
heads from is exactly the 
same quality that we send 
you when you order from us. 
We have no favorites among 
our customers in seed quality. 
Ev ery one gets th e same qua 1- 
ity and that quality is the 
best that can be grown. The 
high quality of our cabbage 
seed as shown in this illustra¬ 
tion is the real reason why 
more than 50,000 acres of cab¬ 
bage are planted every year 
from Hastings cabbage seed. 
This illustration shows just 
whatthe combination of right 
seed, right man and good land 
make, but if the seed is not 
right, the man and land don't 
count for much in the resuit. 
The seed has got to be right 
for you to make a success. 
OUR RIGHT SEED 
Cabbage la the most impor¬ 
tant of the Southern vegetable 
crops. It’s a standard crop 011 
every Southern truck farm; it 
finds an Important place in 
every family garden. Yet 
there is no crop grown that 
depends more for its success 
on the quality of the seed 
planted. A packet of Hastings’ 
Cabbage Seed will easily make 
from 60 to 75 more good solid 
heads than a packet of seed 
from the commission boxes at 
the store. Itis not a question 
of having “good luck’’ with 
your cabbage, it’s a question 
of starting cabbage with right 
seed. 
Hastings’ Cabbage Seed nev¬ 
er falls to make a good, solid, 
salable or eatable head of 
cabbage to every plant when 
treated right. 
WHY YOU FAILED 
We believe that there is hard¬ 
ly a person who reads this 
catalogue that has not made 
a failure with cabbage (and 
a good many other things as 
welljin the past,when they de¬ 
pended on the cheap cabbage 
seed from merchants and drug 
stores. Why is it? Simply be¬ 
cause that seed has not been 
grown right. It’s grown to 
sell cheap. It’s grown so that 
your merchant or druggist 
can make a clear profit of 
on it. His big profit is made 
at the expense of your suc¬ 
cess, and if you continue to 
buy and plant that kind of 
cabbage and other seed you 
are to blame for your failure. 
