From PETER HENDERSON & CO., New York 



HENDERSON'S FARMERS MANUAL 1924 



INDEX AND QUANTITIES TO SOW PER ACRE 



Purchaser pays transportation on farm seeds. If small quantities are wanted by mail see zone rates on page 2 of cover and add to order. 



Agrostis tenuis — See R. I. Bent 



" stolonifera — See Creeping Bent 



" vulgaris — Red Top Fancy 



Alfalfa : 



Alopecurus pratensis — See Meadow Foxtail 



Alsike, Hybrid or Swedish Clover 



Andropogon sorghum var. — See Kaffir Corn 



Anthoxanthum odoratum, See Sweet Vernal, peren. 

 Arrhenatherum avenaceum — See Tall Meadow Oat 



Grass 



Artichokes 



Australian Salt Bush 



Avena elatior — See Tall Meadow Oat Grass 



Awnless Brome Grass 



Barley (Sow broadcast, 2 to 2^ bushels) 



Beans, Field 



" Soj a 



" Velvet 



Beet, Sugar 



Beggar Weed 



Bent Grass 



Bermuda Grass 



Bokhara Clover 



Brassica Napus — See Rape 



Bromus inermis — See Awnless Brome Grass 



Broom Corn 



Buckwheat 



Canada Blue Grass 



Carrots 



Chaetochloa italica — See Golden Millet 



Clovers 



Colonial Bent 



Corn, Dent 



" Flint 



" Fodder 



" Pop 



Cow Grass — See Mammoth Red Clover 



Cow Peas 



Creeping Bent or Fiorin 



Crested Dog's Tail 



Crimson or Carnation Clover — See Scarlet Clover 



Cynodon dactylon — See Bermuda Grass 



Cynosurus cristatus — See Crested Dog's Tail .... 



Dactylis glomerata — See Orchard Grass 



Desmodium tortuosum — See Beggar Weed 



Douras or Durra 



English Blue Grass — See Meadow Fescue 



" or Perennial Rye Grass 



Farmogerm 



Fertilizers 



Fescue, Chewings 



Festuca duriuscula — See Hard Fescue 



" elatior — See Tall Meadow Fescue 



" heterophylla — See Various Leaved Fescue 



" ovina — See Sheep's Fescue 



" tenuifolia — See Fine Leaved Sheep's 

 Fescue 



" pratensis — See Meadow Fescue 



" rubra — See Red Fescue 



Fine Leaved Sheep's Fescue 



Fiorin — See Creeping Bent 



Garawi Grass — See Sudan Grass 



Glycine hispida — See Soja Bean 



Grasses, for the South 



" Hay and Permanent Pasture 



" Permanent Hay Mixtures 



" Permanent Pasture Mixtures 



" Clover, for above . . . 



" Renovating Mixture 



" various 



" Woodland Pastures 



Grimm Alfalfa 



Hard Fescue 



Herd's Grass of the South — See Red Top 



" " " " North — See Timothy 



Hungarian Grass — See Hungarian Millet 



Italian Rye Grass 



Japan Clover 



Jerusalem Corn 



Johnson Grass 



June Clover — See Red Clover 



" Grass — See Kentucky Blue 



Page 



Sow (if alone) 





per Acre 



3 



3 bushels. 



2 



2 bushels. 



3 



1 bushel. 



5 



30 to 40 lbs. 



3 



3 to 4 bushels. 



4 



8 lbs. 



12 



8 to 10 lbs. 



3 



334 bushels. 



3 



4 to S bushels. 



10 



8 to 10 bushels. 



10 



lib. 



3 



4 to 5 bushels. 



2 



2 to 25 lbs. 



10 



134 to 2 bu. drilled 



10 



1 bushel drilled. 



10 



1 bushel. 



10 





11 



6 to 8 lbs. 



11 



10 to 12 lbs. 



2 



2 bushels. 



2 



6 lbs. 



4 



10 lbs. 



14 



2 to 4 lbs. 



2 



20 to 25 lbs. 



11 



8 to 10 lbs. 



11 



1 bushel. 



2 



3 bushels. 



12 



4 lbs. 



12 



1 bushel. 



4 





9 



2 bushels. 



8 



8 to 10 qts. 



9 



8 to 10 qts. 





( Broadcast, 2 bu. 



9 



1 Drilled, 1 bu. 



12 



4 lbs. 



4 



12 lbs. 



13 



2 bushels. 



2 



2 bushels. 



2 



1 34 bushels. 



4 



15 lbs. 



2 



6 lbs. 



2 



1 Yn bushels. 



3 



3 to 4 bushels. 



11 



10 to 12 lbs. 



12 



4 to 5 lbs. 



3 



234 bushels. 



3 



234 to 3 bushels. 



16 





16 





2 



2J4 bushels. 



3 



2)4 bushels. 



3 



3 bushels. 



2 



2 3^2 bushels. 



2 



3 bushels. 



3 



2J4 bushels. 



3 



234 bushels. 



2 



3 bushels. 



2 



2 bushels. 



3 



15 to 20 lbs. 



10 



1 bushel. 



1 



40 lbs. 



1 



40 lbs. 



1 



40 lbs. 



1 



10 lbs. 



1 

 1-3 



1 



40 lbs. 



40 lbs. 



S 



15 to 20 lbs. 



2 



2)4 bushels. 



3 



3 bushels. 



3 



)A to 1 bushel. 



12 



1 bushel. 



3 



3 bushels. 



2 



14 lbs. 



12 



5 lbs. 



3 



1 bushel. 



4 



12 to 14 lbs. 



3 



3 bushels. 



Kaffir Corn 



Kentucky Blue Grass. 



Lespedeza striata — See Japan Clover 



Lolium italicum — See Italian Rye Grass. 



" perenne — See English Rye Grass . 



Lucerne — See Alfalfa 



Mammoth or Pea Vine Clover 



Mangels 



Meadow Fescue 



" Foxtail 



Medicago sativa — See Alfalfa 



Melilotus alba — See Bokhara Clover 



Millet, Golden German and Hungarian 



Japanese (in drills, 10 lbs. per acre) 



" Pearl, Egyptian, Cat-Tail or Horse Millet. 



Millo Maize — See Douras 



Mucuna utilis — See Velvet Bean 



New Zealand Fescue 



Oats 



Orchard Grass 



Panicum crus-galli — See Japanese Millet 



Pea Vine Clover — See Mammoth Clover 



Peas, Cow 



" Field 



Pennisetum spicatum — See Pearl Millet 



Perennial Red Clover — See Mammoth Clover... . 



Phleum pratense — See Timothy 



Poa compressa — See Canada Blue Grass 



" nemoralis — See Wood Meadow Grass 



" pratensis — See Kentucky Blue 



" trivialis — See Rough Stalked Meadow Grass. 

 P otatoes 



Rape, English 



Reana luxurians — See Teosinte 



Red Clover (Common or June Clover) 



Red or Creeping Fescue 



Red Top Fancy (Herd's Grass of the South) . 



Rhode Island Bent 



Rough Stalked Meadow Grass 



Ruta Baga 



Rye 



Scarlet Clover 



Sheep's Fescue 



Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass-See Kentucky Blue 



Soja Bean or Soy Bean 



Sorghums 



Sorghum Halapense — See Johnson Grass 



Sudan Grass 



Sugar Beet 



Sugar Cane 



Sunflower 



Swedish Clover — See Alsike 



Sweet Clover — See Bokhara Clover 



Sweet Vernal — true perennial 



Tall Meadow Fescue 



" " Oat Grass. 

 Tares 



Teosinte 



Timothy or Herd's Grass of the North 



Tobacco 



Trifolium hybridum — See Alsike Clover 



" incarnatum — See Scarlet Clover 



" pratense — See Red Clover 



" perenne — See Mammoth Clover 

 repens — See White Clover 



Turnips 



Ruta Baga, Russian or Swedish. 



Various Leaved Fescue 



Vetch, Sand, Winter or Hairy. 



" Spring (Tares) 



Vicia sativa 



Vicia villosa 



Vigna catjang— See Cow Peas 



Wheat 



White or Dutch Clover. 

 Wood Meadow Grass. . 



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Sow (if alone) 

 per Acre 



8 to 10 lbs. 

 3 bushels. 



14 lbs. 



3 bushels. 

 234 to 3 bushels. 



30 to 40 lbs. 



12 ibs. 



6 to 8 lbs. 



2 34 bushels. 



3 to 4 bushels. 



30 to 40 lbs. 



10 lbs. 



1 bushel. 

 Jroadcast, 15 lbs. 

 I Drills, 5 to 6 lbs. 

 \ Broadcast, 8 lbs. 



4 to 5 lbs. 

 I bushel. 



2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 



3 to 4 bushels. 



1 5 lbs. 

 12 lbs. 



2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 



8 lbs. 



12 lbs. 



34 to 1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 



2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 



1 34 bushels. 

 10 to 12 bushels. 



2 to 4 lbs. 

 6 to 8 lbs. 



12 to 14 lbs. 



234 bushels. 



1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 

 134 bushels. 



2 to 3 lbs. 



1 }o bushels. 



15 lbs. 



2 J-2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 

 1 bushel. 



1 to 12 lbs. 



1 bushel. 



1 5 to 20 lbs. 

 6 to 8 lbs. 



10 to 12 lbs. 



4 qts. 



8 lbs. 



10 lbs. 

 334 bushels. 



2 34 bushels. 



4 to 5 bushels. 



2 bushels. 

 6 to 8 lbs. 



34 to 1 bushel. 



8 lbs. 

 15 lbs. 

 12 to 14 lbs. 

 12 lbs. 

 8 lbs. 

 2 to 3 lbs. 



2 to 3 lbs. 



3 bushels. 

 1 bushel. 



2 bushels. 

 2 bushels. 

 1 bushel. 

 2 bushels. 



lj-o bushels. 



8 lbs. 

 2 bushels. 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35 and 37 Cortlandt Street, NEW YORK, N. Y. 



