H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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50,000 ACRES OF CABBAGE 
are planted every year in the Southern States from Hastini^s’ Cabbage Seed. The first year we were in business 
we didn’t sell enough cabbage seed to plant 100 acres. The difference between the lOO acres then and the 50,- 
OOO acres now means only one thing, and that is that Hastings’ Cabbage Seed “makes good” wherever it’s 
planted in the South. Cabbage, more than almost any other crop is dependent on the quality of the seed for suc¬ 
cess. No matter how good your soil, how well you cultivate or fertilize it, if the cabbage seed isn’t the right 
quality you make a failure to a greater or less degree. You can’t be too particular about the quality of the cabbage 
seed you plant, and if there is one thing that we are more careful about than any other it is with our cabbage seed 
crops. Every head that is planted out for seed purposes is carefully inspected by one of the great cabbage ex¬ 
perts of the country and, unless it is right in every respect, it is not planted out for our seed. Our first, last and 
all-the-time idea in cabbage seed is “right quality,” and every buyer of Hastings’ Cabbage Seed gets the very 
best seed that money and experience can produce. We have only one grade—the very best can be grown—and the 
buyer of a 5 or 10-cent packet gets exactly the same quality as does the big trucker or market gardener buying 
in 50 to lOO-pound lots. Cabbage is the most important of all the Sonthern vegetable crops. It’s a standard crop 
on every truck farm and finds a place in almost every Southern home garden, and we can’t impress on you too 
strongly, first, that you ought, if you want to be successful, to plant the best cabbage seed you can buy; and 
second, that Hastings’ Cabbage Seed is just the quality to give you right results. 
Mississippi 
Grows Some 
Cabbage Also 
111 a recent catalogue 
we printed the Illustration 
of Mr. Noakes of Cor pus 
Christ!, Texas, and six 
heads of Centennial Flat 
Dutch Cabbage, the six 
heads weighing 971^ lbs. 
This interested Mr. D. D. 
Cowan, of Hancock Co., 
Miss., who sent us t h e 
photograph of what h e 
did in Mississippi with 
Hastings’ Cabbage seed. 
Mr. Cowan writes us that 
his crop of cabbage went 
through two months of 
severe drought and then 
made cabbage like this. 
Mr. Cowan and Mr.Noakes 
are both good truck farm¬ 
ers, and Texas and Missis¬ 
sippi are both mighty good 
States, but getting right 
down to bottom facts, all 
their work and intelligent 
efforts would have been 
lost if they had not had 
the right seed. 
Hastings’ Cabbage Seed 
neverfails tomakea good, 
solid, saleable or eatable 
head of cabbage to every 
plant when treated right 
in any of the Southern 
States. It’s not a question 
of having “good luck” 
with your cabbage; it’s 
largely a question of right 
seed, and right cabbage 
seed Is not on sale at 
country stores or in com¬ 
mission boxes. You can’t 
afford to plant any but 
the best and the best is 
never found in country 
stores. 
William Murdock Cowan and Four Heads of Hastings’ Centennial Flat Dutch Cabbage 
Grown at Caesar, Hancock Co., Miss. W^eight of Cabbage 50 pounds 
Hastings’ Big 4 Cabbage Collection 25 Cents 
The foUowInfi varieties,Snr© Crop,Lon£ Island Wakefield.Florida Drumhead and Centennial l^ate Flat Dutch,have been known for years as HASTINGS 
BIG 4** and planted by tens of thousands of Southern gardeners. It gives an all season*s supply of cabbage, early, medium and late, for everyone 
who plants it. Since we began offering our *‘Big 4** w© have added to it on© packet of our Genuine Snrehead, making it more popular than ever. 
At full catalogue prices these five packets of the best five varieties of cabbage would cost you 45 cents. W© will send you these five packets for 25 
cents, postpaid. In buying our **Big 4’* Cabbage Collection yon get the biggest and best bargain in cabbage seed ever offered by any seed house. 
Include it in your order this spring. If you don*t want to plant all the varieties this spring the seed will be all right for summer and early fall 
planting. While our Centennial Flat Dutch and Snrehead are both first-class for early spring planting they are equally good for summer and early 
fall plantings. You will make no mistake in ordering HASTINGS* **BIG 4** Cabbage Collection this spring. It*s good value for the money and you 
can’t get HASTINGS* SEED anywhere but direct from HASTINGS. Don’t wait expecting to go up to your merchant s at planting time and get 
them. They won’t he there. HASTINGS* SEEDS are never put in boxes to be sold on commission. Yon must order direct from ns in Atlanta. 
Yon will then know exactly what yon are getting—the BEST. 
