PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 7 
HENDERSON'S 
NORTHERN GROWN ALFALFA SEED 
ALFALFA, or LUCERNE. (Medicago sativa.) A Clover-like leguminous plant of great importance 
as a hay and forage crop, nutritious and rich in protein elements. It grows 2 to 5 feet high and sends 
roots. 5, 10, 20, and sometimes 30 feet into the subsoil. It needs one season to become established, after 
which it yields enormous crops annually for many years. 3 or 4 cuttings per season, aggregating 4 to 6 
tons cured hay per acre, are harvested, according to conditions and locality. It does well on all good rich 
soils (except heavy clay), if well drained, or overlying a permeable subsoil; on calcareous soil it thrives 
‘especially well. Our strain of Alfalfa Seed is grown in far Northern regions, where plants have to endure 
extreme cold and still thrive in those high altitudes. Our experience—and that of our customers—has 
shown that such seed is undoubtedly the best for the North and Eastern States, and that it excels all others 
in hardiness. Before offering this seed to our customers for sale, it is thoroughly recleaned by the most 
modern seed-cleaning machinery in America. These are not ordinary fanning mills, but mac +hines with 
an even and strong air suction—equal at all points—which is quite a different thing from a blast. 3y this 
process we are enabled to separate the sound, perfect seeds from all rubbish and light, imperfect seeds. 
Sow in the Northern States during June, July or August, 30 to 40 lbs. of seed per acre if broadcasted, 25 
or to 30 lbs. if drilled. In the South sow in February or September. 
Price, Henderson’s Superior Recleaned Alfalfa Seed, 40c. per lb.; $21.75 per bushel of 60 lbs.; $35.00 
per 100 lbs. 
“That Alfalfa I bought of you is more than a success, it is a wonder to all the farmers around here. No 
rain here for eight weeks, yet it is growing fine while around the fields are all dried up.”’ 
THOMAS S. OSBORN, Amagansett, L. I. 
GRIMM ALFALFA SEED 
THE HARDIEST ALFALFA KNOWN 
“The'Country Gentleman” of March 10, 1917, says: ‘‘According to the records, Grimm alfalfa was 
introduced into Carver country, Minnesota, in 1857, by Wendelin Grimm, an immigrant from Baden, 
Germany. He brought with him fifteen or twenty pounds of alfalfa seed, and sowed it in the spring of 
1858. Just how well this first seeding of the ‘‘ewiger Klee’’—everlasting clover—as he called it, succeeded 
is not definitely known, but at least enough of the plants survived to furnish seed for future sowings, and 
in 1867, 480 pounds were threshed from three acres.”’ 
The attention of the Minnesota experiment station was called to this alfalfa in 1901, and by careful 
experimentation Grimm Alfalfa was found to be far superior to common kinds in withstanding unfavorable 
winters. This strain of alfalfa seed not only endures extremely low temperature, but it can be cut with 
greater safety in the fall, and will bear more abuse in the way of pasturage than any other forage plant. 
Grimm Alfaifa has larger crowns, and a more spreading root system than the ordinary Alfalfa. It is also 
claimed that it will yield from ten to fifteen per cent more than any other variety, and will start and thrive 
in undrained wet locations, where the ordinary sort was tried unsuccessfully. One of the characteristics 
of the Grimm Alfalfa is that some of the plants produce peculiar greenish-yellow flowers. The seed is 
high priced and it is rather hard to get the genuine article. 
We offer our stock at the following prices, as long as unsold. 
Price, 75c. per lb.; $39.75 per bushel; $65.00 per 100 lbs. 
Full cultural 
instructions 
will be found in 
our 
new Booklet 
“ALFALFA 
ON 
NORTHERN 
FARMS” 
sent free to all 
applicants. 
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: Grown from 
Henderson’s Re-cleaned Seed 
LOCUST VALLEY, LL 
U. S. DEPT. of AGRICULTURE SAYS: 
“IN ADDITION TO THE HAY CROP, ALFALFA IN TWO YEARS ADDS $100 TO THE VALUE 
OF EVERY ACRE ON WHICH IT GROWS.” 
