H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen. Atlanta. Georgia. 
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HASTINGS’ GRASSES AND CLOVERS 
And Why Most Dealers Gan Sell Grass and Glover Seed Gheap 
N®. 1—Sample o£ Our Best Grade Clover Seed 
No. 3—Stand from Seed Shown in No. I 
Ever since we began to issue a seed catalogue and 
sell grass and clover seed we have talked the impor¬ 
tance of quality In these seeds particularly. We have 
urged constantly the Importance of buying nothing but 
the best in quality in seeds, for we knew positively that 
the best was always the cheapest in the end. In 
nothing in the way of seeds is there such carelessness 
and adulteration as in clover and grass seed. In recent 
tests by the United States Department of Agriculture, 
samples ot clover seeds of various kinds were bougiitin 
open market and adulterations and weed seed up to 
64% were found in some of this seed, being sold at low 
prices. On this page we show you the difference be¬ 
tween the best grade, such as we sell, and the lower 
grades that are sold by the seed houses and dealers 
whose inducement to buy is a much lower price than 
ours. We are using clover seed to illustrate this, but 
what we show is equally true of every variety of grass 
and clover on the market. These illustrations taken 
from photographs of clover seed magnified many times 
by powerful microscopes. 
Illustration No. 1 shows you a sample of our best re¬ 
cleaned clover seed, absolutely free from all adultera¬ 
tion and weed seed, the only kind that is fit to plant. 
This is what we term “Best Grade" Seed. 
Illustration No. 2 shows a sample of low grade clover 
seed just as purchased in the general markets. It’s full 
of seed of noxious weeds, many of which may be pests 
that you can never get rid of. Hardly half of the weight 
of this is good clover seed that will germinate, while 
every weed seed in it is a source of danger, a detriment 
to any piece of ground it may be sowed on. Yet the 
difference in the retail price of these two samples was 
only 2J4 cents per pound, SI.50 per bushel, and a bushel 
of clover seed will sow three acres. Let no man fool 
himself into believing that all clover seed offered is 
good clover seed. Not 25% of the clover and grass seed 
sold is best grade stock. These two illustrations show 
just why there is ditlerence in price between our clover 
seed and some others, and that difl'erence is not only in 
clover seed but goes all through the grasses. This Is 
only one Illustration, but it tells the whole story for all 
the grasses and clovers. 
Illustration No. 3 shows what a clean stand may be 
obtained from the use of best seed. This is the result 
of sowing some of the seed shown in Illustration No. 1. 
This would be a true representation of the young clover 
plants from your own sowing, supiiosing that your own 
ground is reasonably free from weed seeds. This illus¬ 
tration shows perfection in a stand of young clover. 
Now take a glance at No. -1, showing the planting of the 
sample of seed shown in No. 2. The clover seed has 
germinated, but so have the weed seeds, coming along 
as fast or faster than the clover. You can see that al¬ 
ready the weeds are twining around the young clover 
choking it out. 
No. 2 Sample oS Clover Seed at Low Prices 
No. 4—Stand from Seed Shown in No. 2 
Permanent Grass Mixture alf the year round 
grazing and pasture on the clay soils of the South; contains 9 different 
grasses and 2 clovers. No Bermuda grass in it. Summer and winter 
gras-es blended in right proportion to keep your pasture green the year 
round. With an occasional fertilizing will last for years. Sow in either 
fall or as early in the spring as soil can be worked at rate of 35 pounds per 
acre. Price for 35 pounds of this mixture $6.00 F. O. B. Atlanta. All grass 
and clover seed in this mixture is of highest possible grade. 
Hastings’ Evergreen Lawn Grass 
clal mixture that has been so successfully used in the lawns of Atlanta for 
the last five years. It's the only mixture of lawn grass that has been made 
up that has stood the test of time under Southern conditions of soil and 
climate. It makes a quick show and soon becomes a beautiful velvety 
lawn on well prepared soil. It stands summer heat and drought withmit 
serous Injury. Pound, postpaid 45 cents; 234 pounds, $1.00; postpaid. 
Bushel ^4 lbs.), not prepaid, $3.50. Sow at rate of 3 bushels per acre. 
Send a Sample to Dept, of A^ricnlture 
We are determined to break up this practice of selling adulterated and low grade grass and clover seed to Southern farmers by “cut price” 
seedsmen and dealers, loading your farms with grasses you don’t want and with weed seeds, worthiess at the best, more often so dangerous 
that they become a pest. 
Most farmers don’t know it, but the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., maintains a “Seed Testing Bureau. All 
you have to do is to send them, say an ounce, of any grass or ciover seed you want tested and they wiil anaiyze and test it and write you tell¬ 
ing you just how it is. We are perfectly willing to have the Department test anything we send out, and if you are offered grass or clover seed 
at a low price our advice is that you have it tested both for purity and vitality. 
HASTINGS’ GRASS AND CLOVER ROOK 
Last fall "we prepared and published a book on Grasses and Clo'vers for tbe South, finely illustrated. It s 
not for sale but it’s free to any one of our customers interested. It tells all about tbe different grasses and 
clovers for the South, tells how to prepare your land to get the best results, when and how to sow the differ¬ 
ent kinds of seed of this class. If interested in grasses and clovers we shall be glad to seud you a copy free 
on request. W^e believe it will help you in making profitable grass and clover crops. 
