PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 
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HENDERSON'S, SPECIAL GRASS SEED MIXTURE 
FOR. 
Tay and Permanent Pasture 
It Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Luxuriant Pasture 
Maintaining Its Cropping Qualities Twenty Years or More 
This famous mixture has seeded thousands of acres of meadow and pasture land for progressive farmers 
and stock raisers in various parts of the United States, with most gratifying results. It produces wonderful 
hay crops and luxuriant pasture, maintaining its cropping qualities twenty years or more. It is a well- 
balanced combination of a number of native afid acclimated foreign Grasses and Clovers, 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 foliage. These Grasses are of superior quality, inviting, sweet and nourishing, 
whether used as hay or pasture. That we have been successful 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 and climate, 
and the purpose for oo sown, and if with or without a grain crop, should accompany each order. Sow 
40 lbs. per acre. 
Full directions for sowing enclosed in every bag. 
The Yield of Hay under favorable conditions averages 3 to 4 tons per acre at the first cutting, or nearly 
double that of Timothy and Clover, and larger yields are not unusual; then, if not pastured, the second 
crop is usually about one-half the quantity of the first. This shows the great value of this special mixture 
of grasses over Timothy which seldom yields a second crop, nor can it be pastured after cutting without 
seriously damaging the next season’s yield, for Timothy after cutting throws its strength into its bulbous 
base, on which its yield the next season depends. 
Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the grass commences to grow at once, recovering its verdure in 
a few days’ time and affording a continuous pasturage even through dry summer weather, until winter 
sets in; or the field may be pastured from earliest spring and still be in prime condition for yielding hay or 
pasture the next season, and so on year after year, for the various grasses composing this special mixture 
are all dense, fibrous-rooting varieties, sustaining no injury from cropping—proving its value over Timothy, 
which would be injured, probably ruined, under similar conditions. 
Prices HENDERSON’S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 
For Light Soils, Medium Soils or Heavy Soils (state ‘which in ordering) (purchaser paying transportation) 
35c. per lb.; 10 lbs. $3.25; 100 Ibs., $30.00. 
The fall season is especially favorable to the growth of young grass, for at that season the seeds have the benefit 
of thoroughly warmed ground and a copious rainfall, which hastens germination and enables the grass to be- 
come firmly established before winter sets in. Then, on the opening of spring, the grass immediately recom- 
mences its growth and taking full possession of the ground, prevents weeds from obtaining a foothold. 
