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SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 
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SON'S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE 
WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT RENEWAL, 
HENDER 
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY: 
IN MAINE. 
acre neat gucceed in geting four tons or moreper || Consisting of the following varieties: Orchard Grass, Meadow Foxtail, Sheep’s Fescue, 
it is splendid hay.—G. M. HOLMES. ae Rhode Island or Creeping Bent, Hard Fescue, Sweet Scented Vernal (True Perennial), 
IN NEW JERSEY Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass, Italian Rye Grass, Red Top, etc., as recommended in 
The Special Grave Mist ves Rave been Pio aitceas our book, ** How the Farm Pays,” blended in proportions which, we have found from 
ful, in spite of an unusually trying season. Yielded actual use, give the most satisfactory results. 
RSG ORER Pete ne On ordinary fertile soil 3 bushels of this mixture is sufficient to seed an acre, but where the 
h , whic soi igside at the same > iS * . ‘ 7 i 
time.—R. V. LINDABURY. land is poor a larger quantity will be necessary. Taking one soil with another a fair average 
| IN IOWA. would be 3 bushels to the acre. 
| expecially int is year of “drouth “Tyce abou | For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils...... 
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| Baten on ow. Watson “ «|. guedium soils.--- |. $2.60 per bushel of US Tbe 
IN NEW YORK. CaN iSO Sa 20 bushel lots, $2.45 per bushel. 
Your Permanent Mixture is the Jinest piece of wy Orchards and Shady Places. ehelieveveverie}ielle tel eer elieve/ ere Lejei(elelis “ . P 6“ 
grass anywhere about here. An old farmer told me | “ A 50 2.40 
last week it would cut 33g one to the acre sure Hay only. Specially recommended for large hay crop LC - 
—J. M. (0) S. e ° . 
INDUCE WORE Nae ee & Pasture only. Will stand close cropping without 100 2.35 
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Your Grass Seeds are easily the best of . . 
marke <i Oe Keascnkate To these mixtures, intended for either Mowing Lands or Pasture (but which on account of 
IN RHODE ISLAND. their greater weight should be sown separately), are to be added 10 Ibs. of Mixed Clovers, com- 
The forty-bushel sowing of Permanent Grass Seed | prising White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, Trefoil, etc., but these should only 
which I purchased from you is to-day the best field be sown in the spring, as they are rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 
of grass in Rhode Island.-BRADFORD NORMAN. | 
INEPENINS VLA NT FULL DIRECTIONS FOR SOWING ENCLOSED IN EVERY BAG. 
vera Mtentine Te hus ak wpa oad | The quantity needed (10 lbs.) of MIXED CLOVERS to sow 
timothy in the amount it yields—J. B. CUMMINGS. | © 
see aE an acre we will sell for $2.00. 
My manager is enthusiastic over your Mixture | 
for Hay and Permanent Pasture. He claims this | 
year he cut 3 tons per acre the first cutting, 134 tons | OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
the second, and will cut 2 tons the third. The field * ‘ | 
is a grand sight; people come for miles around to | ; Country Gentleman says: ‘‘ Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of finer kinds, and the close, rich turf 
seé it.—-EDWARD £. BARNEY. hid every particle of soil.’’ 
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IN CONNECTICUT. | American Agriculturist says: ‘Such mixtures are far superior to Timothy, or ‘Timothy and Clover, or 
Theperinia: dea ee Pinot ; any one grass, costing but a little more, lasting much longer, and giving frequently more than double the yield. 
€ s ecide omtrast beticeen Timothy anc * — ae % 
your Special Grass Mixture for hay in favor of Farm and Home says: ‘‘The enormous yield of nearly four and one-half tons of good hay per acre should 
your Mixture, which is the best field of grass I ever | convince any one that more hay and better pasture can be grown with mixtures than with Timothy and Clover 
saw.—C. R. FISHER. alone, as under the very same conditions the latter yielded less than a ton and a half per acre.” 
IN OHIO. | How the Farm Pays says: ‘Farin advance not only of Timothy but of any other Grass we have thus far 
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The Special Grass Mixture has given us the very in cultivation.” 
best of satisfaction ; it produced the finest piece of 
| grass I ever saw and has given usa large amount of || At our Farm one of these Mixtures yielded (first cutting, 5,888 /bs. ; second cutting, 4,320 /bs. per acre) 
hay and pasture per acre.—W. J. HAYES. 
a total of 10,208 LBS. CURED HAY PER ACRE, while Timothy growing alongside under 
same conditions y/elued only one cutting of 2,400 /bs. per acre. 
We are headquarters for all kinds of 
_RECLEANED GRASS SEEDS, | 
: At first sight, $7.50 to $10.00 per acre appears to be a high price for the seeding of a pasture, 
And have made the subject of Hay and , 2 qr a " : : 
Pasture a special study. We invite corre- but bear in mind that it is a permanent pasture that we have in view, and nowhere can a per- 
spondence; and willadvise the: Dest erases manent pasture be laid down properly for a less original outlay than that we name. 
to use and make up special mixtures where 
FARM SEEDS WE DO NOT DELIVER FREE. 
necessary. 
