HENDERSON'S FARMERS MANUAL 



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 conducted 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 

 detriment to each other, and attaining their maximum of growth at different 

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



furnish continually an abundant bite, when meadows and pastures composed 

 of but a few varieties are brown and bare. 



Another great advantage in sowing Grass seed mixtures is that full use 

 js 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 and Clovers, blended and improved upon during exhaustive trials under widely varied conditions, soils and localities for several years, until prac- 

 tically 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 successful is attested by the numerous letters of praise for these special Grass Mixtures that we have re- 

 ceived from the users, and the tributes to their merits published in many of the agricultural journals. (See Engraving.) 



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 order. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb. 50c; 10 lbs. $4.50; 25 lbs. $10.00; 100 lbs. $35.00; transportation paid. 



MIXED PERMANENT CLOVERS 



Do not omit to sow Clovers with the Grasses, as they add to the yield of hay and pasture, and by their ability to collect atmospheric nitrogen and 

 store it in the root nodules, assist the growth of the Grasses and are of considerable benefit to subsequent crops. 



Mixed Permanent Clovers, on account of their greater weight, should be sown separately, but at the same time as the Grasses, 

 comprises White Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. Sow 10 pounds per acre. 



Price, lb. 60c; 10 lbs. $5.50; 25 lbs. $12.50; 100 lbs. $45.00, purchaser paying transportation. 



This Mixed clover 



DEPENDABLE SEED SERVICE SINCE 1847. The worth of a House whose business has been carried on successfully for three 

 generations is understood by all who plant seeds, because seeds are sold entirely on reputation. 



