The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 29, 1910, Page 70, Image 18

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THE “SCRUB SEED” IX OF THE SOUTH
COSTS OVER TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS EACH YEAR
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Did you ever look on it that way? Probably not. but it’s true Just the same. The South is pay
ing out in dollars and sweat and toil not less than two hundred million dollars every year for the
privilege of using unimproved "scrub" cotton seed. If we counted in corn and oats and the garden
seed, another two hundred million dollars could be added to the tax that you deliberately place on
your own shoulders, but Just now we want to talk about the "scrub seed" tax of the cotton grower.
At this time it takes thirty million acres In round numbers to grow the average crop of twelve
million bales of cotton. This year with bad seasons those thirty million acres have only made be*
j tween ten and eleven million bales. A five-year average shows a yield of less than 200 pounds of
lint per acre.
During the last eight years we have had hundreds of reports from customers saying that under
exactly the same conditions of soil, cultivation and fertilizing the cotton seed bought of us has made
! two to three times as much per acre as their own seed. Our 1010 catalog contains m^ny testimonial*
| from growers in every Southern State.
If Hastings’ Cotton Seed makes twice as much cotton per acre (and It does under exactly the
same conditions) that your own seed does. It means that your present yield can lie grown on half
your present acreage, or if your present acreage was planted in Hastings' seed you would have twice
as much cotton.
It don't cost you much less than $15.00 per acre to grow cotton, but to lie on the safe side we
; will say $13.50 per acre.
If every acre of one-half the present acreage was planted In good, well-bred cotton seed, the average
twelve million bale crop could and would be grown on fifteen million acres or less. That actually
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mean* that the South I* plowing. ferlllUIng and militating fifteen million unneccaaary acre* with all
It* coat of awcat and dollar* ami hmw ami muh He»h
Veara ago we had here In the South what wav kr.'wn aa Carpet (tag" government The** g >
emmenta piled on the taxe*. aa well aa other alwtaea. and It brought *1* ut a political rev billon t <t
aa a matter of fart theae condemned cartel hag government* were yeomen leal ar.<l dollar a»t|rv# Inatl
tutlona compared with the ' arrub are*!"' laxra that the cotton grower* delltwratcly pla.* >*n them
nelvea. Hy hi* own neglect, the average farmer plarea a lax of not leaa than I1J 3* per acre n halt <4
hi* acre* In cotton. If any alale leglalature dared to levy tty law any auch ta* y—u «■ ulJ U* hunting
for your member of the leglalature with a abotgun. and tightfully *o
If you are going along making lea* than iO# to Vo poind* of lint cotton per acre yti are paying
a certain part of thU •'arrub aecd" lit If X1 u are In Mo* lr«* than a hale r»r acre Ian > i are
paying a tax No acre of cotton planted ahould produce Ir».« than a teal*, and t>' act* plant**! In
right aeetl with anything like decent cultivation produce* le*« than a hale of rot he per act* Tld*
matter la of tiul Interest to every farmer who grow* an acre of cotton or any other vtaple crop
We go Into thl* cotton matter very fully In our new 1»1§ aeed catalog ICt the hr-*! and tt «t
complete Southern Need calah-g ever lavued It will pay you to read every word of It If r u ar* a
cualomer of our*. It will lie In y ur pnat office not later than January IMh If > u are M ran '*»» tl»t.
aend u* a po«ta| today and a copy will le *e-,l you No S utbefn farmer can at* cl to he with- -it
It If* different from any other aeed catalog published Helen* l* on* llluelratlon from |i a o»(*r
*o to upeak. of Ihe hundred* of Item* In If Send today for If it • fry*
HASTINGS* “BANK ACCOUNT** COTTON
OUR EXTRA EARLY, VERY PROLIFIC, STORM PROOF COTTON THAT BEATS THE BOLL-WEEVIL
A GOOD GROWER, AND OUR CROPS SHOWED OPEN BOLLS IN 95 PAYS FROM PATE OF PLANTING
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H. G. HASTINGS & CO„ Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia