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HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GRASS SEED MIXTURE FOR 



Hay and Permanent Pasture 



Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Pasture, Maintaining 

 Its Cropping Qualities Twenty Years or More 



It has been fully demonstrated by the careful trials considered by the 

 Agricultural Experiment Stations in various parts of the country that good 

 pasturage and good hay crops can be best secured by sowing Grass seeds 

 in mixtures. Pastures seeded naturally are always found to contain many 

 varieties of Grasses growing and flourishing side by side without detri- 

 ment to each other, and attaining their maximum of growfh at different 

 periods of the year. It is to this notable characteristic that such pastures 

 furnish continually an abundant bite, when meadows and pastures com- 

 posed of but a few varieties are brown and bare. 



Another great advantage in solving Grass seed mixtures is that full 

 use is made of the land. The various Grasses being of different habit, seek 

 the food they require at unequal depths in the soil, some being shallow- 

 rooted in habit and some deep-rooted; thus every strata of soil is utilized, 

 and a far greater number of plants grow and flourish in a given space. 



Henderson's Special Grass Seed Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pasture 

 is a well-balanced combination of a number of native and acclimated 

 foreign Grasses, blended and improved upon during exhaustive trials 

 under widely varied conditions, soils and localities for several years, 

 until practically perfect, our aim being to produce, under the extremes 

 of the American climate of heat, drought and cold, a Permanent dense and 

 deep-rooting turf that would yield year after year the maximum quantity 

 of forage. These Grasses are of superior quality, inviting, sweet and 

 nourishing, whether used as hay or pasture. That we have been success- 

 ful is attested by the numerous letters of praise for these special Grass 

 Mixtures that we have received from the users, and the tributes to their 

 merits published in many of the agricultural journals. 



In preparing these Mixtures the greatest care is exercised in selecting 

 such varieties as are suited to the soil to be sown and are likely to realize 

 the object in view. Therefore a description of the soil, whether Light, 

 Medium or Heavy, and climate, and if with or without a grain crop, should 

 accompany each other. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. Full directions for sowing 

 enclosed in every bag. 



Price, lb., 65c; 10 lbs., $6.00; 25 lbs., $12.50; 100 lbs., $42.50; transpor- 

 tation paid. 



PERMANENT PASTURE 



There is no more important part of a farm than a good pasture, and 

 that can only be obtained by the use of the proper Grasses, varieties that 

 have different root formations and different habits and season of growth, in 

 order to maintain a rich, close turf throughout the entire season. These 

 Mixtures contain over a dozen of the best permanent Grasses, both Ameri- 

 can-grown and imported. All are permanent, and when once established 

 will last indefinitely, if the fertility of the soil is kept up by occasional 

 top-dressing. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb., 65c; 10 lbs., $6.00; 25 lbs., $12.50; 100 lbs., $42.50; transpor- 

 tation paid. 



PERMANENT HAY 

 Supplies a Good Crop of Hay in Dry Seasons 



Although the most widely cultivated Hay Grass in the United States is 

 Timothy, or a mixture of Timothy and Clover, and while they answer the 

 purposes admirably on farms where the soil is suitable and where the 

 usual three and four years' rotation is carried on, yet there are many other 

 Grasses which will yield more profitable returns. 



An acre of Henderson's Special Grass Mixture for Permanent Hay will 

 yield double the quantity of an acre of Timothy and Clover, and the farmer 

 whose land is sown with a proper mixture of Permanent Grasses, requir- 

 ing only an occasional top-dressing of manure or fertilizer to maintain 

 heavy cropping qualities for twenty years or more, avoids the expense of 

 the yearly plowing, and cultivating necessary in rotation croppinq. Sow 

 40 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb., 65c: 10 lbs.. $6.00; 25 lbs.. $12.50; 100 lbs., $42.50; transpor- 

 tation paid. 



WOODLAND PASTURES 



Is composed of a selection of Grasses which will thrive under trees. 

 Orchard Grass is one of the best Grasses for the purpose, but this mixture 



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RENOVATING MIXTURE 

 For Impoverished Grass Lands 



Pastures that are run down should be spike toothed harrowed and seed 

 broadcasted at the rate of 20 to 30 lbs. per acre 

 followed by rolling. 



Price, lb., 65c; 10 lbs., S6.00; 25 lbs., $12.50; 

 100 lbs.. $42.50; transportation paid. 



MIXED PERMANENT CLOVERS 



Do not omit to sow Clovers with the Grasses, as 

 they add to the yield of hay and pasture, collect 

 atmospheric nitrogen and store it in the root nodules, 

 assist the growth of the Grasses and are of benefit to 

 subsequent crops. Permanent Clovers, on account 

 of their greater weight, should be sown separately 

 but at the same time as the Grasses. This Mixed 

 Clover comprises White, Mammoth Red— Medium, 

 Wild White, Ladino, Alsike, etc. Sow 10 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb., 80c; 10 lbs., S7.50; 25 lbs., $18.00; 

 106 lbs., S70.00. 



(.Purchaser pays transportation charges on cioversj 



PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE 

 WITHOUT NOTICE. 



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