PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK—SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES. 
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What Our Customers Say: 
IN MAINE. 
IT did not succeed in getting four tons or more 
per acre, but I did get more than from anything 
| else, and it is splendid hay.—G. M. HOLMEs. 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
The Special Grass Mixtures have been most 
successful, in spite of an unusually trying sea- 
son. Yielded a crop of hay more than twice as 
great per acre as the timothy, which I sowed 
alongside at the same time.—R. V. LINDABURY. 
IN IOWA. 
Your Grass Mixture has done exceedingly well, 
especially in this year of drought. It yielded 
about twice as much as timothy, and cattle seemed 
to do better on it.—W. WATSON. 
IN NEW YORK. 
Your Permanent Mixture is the finest piece of 
grass anywhere about here. An old farmer told 
me last week it would cut 3% tons to the acre 
sure.—J. M. RICHARDS. 
IN VERMONT. 
Your Grass Seeds are easily the best of any in 
the market.—F. C. KIMBALL. 
IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
The Permanent Pasture Grass wus a perfect 
success. We never had such a good yield of 
grass. We mowed our meadows twice. 
—Wwm. SIMPSON & Sons. 
The green appearance of the field attracted 
universal attention. It has far surpassed clover 
and timothy in the amount it yields. 
—J. B. CUMMINGS. 
IN VIRGINIA. 
My manager is enthusiastic over your mixture 
for Hay and Permanent Pasture. He claims this 
year he cut 3tons per acre the first cutting, 1% || 
tons the second, and will cut 2 tons the third.| 
The field isa grand sight ; people come for miles | 
around to see it EDWARD E. BARNEY. | 
IN INDIANA. | 
Your Grass Seed produced the largest crop of || 
hay Iever saw, and has yielded a most excellent | | 
pasture ever since, notwithstanding the extraor- || 
dinary drought in this vicinity.—R. S. TAYLOR. | 
IN OHIO. 
The Special Grass Mixture has given us the very 
best of satisfaction ; it produced the finest piece 
of grass I ever saw and has given us a large 
amount of hay and pasture per acre 
—W. J. Hayes. 
pecial Grass 
Mixtures 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 
Consisting of the following varie- 
ties: Orchard Grass, Meadow Foxtail, 
Sheep’s Fescue, Rhode Island or 
; Creeping Bent, Hard Feseue, Sweet 
Scented Vernal (True Perennial), Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass. Italian 
Rye Grass, Red Top, ete., as recommended in our book «*HOW THE FARM 
PAYS,” blended’ in proportions which, we have found from actual use, give 
the most satisfactory results. 
On ordinary fertile soil three bushels of this mixture is sufficient to seed an 
acre, but where the land is poor a larger quantity will be necessary. Taking 
one soil with another a fair average would be three bushels to the acre. 
$2.50 per bu. of 14 /bs. 
WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS 
WITHOUT RENEWAL. 
For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils, 
ss Medium soils, 
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ses ra Heavy soils, Dib es 20-bu. lots. 
“ Orchards and Shady Places, .... .- 
“Hay only, . ee ee aS. 6 MA ec 2.40 “ 50-bu. “ 
“«~ Past Ly Re ie Bee en Re | Seen | er 
Alayna 235 * 100-bu. * 
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Renovating Old Pastures, 
To these mixtures, intended for either Mowing Lands or Pasture (but which 
on account of their greater weight should be sown separately), are to be added 
ten pounds of Mixed Clovers, comprising White, Mammoth, Perennial or Cow 
Grass, Alsike, Trefoil, ete., but these should only be sown in the spring, as 
they are rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 
“Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of 
rich turf hid every particle of soil.” 
American Agriculturist says: “‘Such mixtures are’far superior to Timothy, 
or ‘Timothy and Clover,’ or any one grass, costing but a httle more, 
lasting much longer. and giving frequently more than double the yield.” 
Farm and Home says: ‘*The enormous yield of nearly four and one-half 
tons of good hay per acre should convince any one that more hay and 
better pasture can be grown with mixtures than with Timothy and Clover alone, as under the very same 
conditions the latter yielded less than a ton and a half per acre.” 
How the Farm Pays says: “Far in advance not only of Timothy but of any other Grass we have thus far in 
eultivation.”’ 
At our Farm one of these Mixtures yielded (first cutting. 5,888 /bs.; 
second cutting, 4,320 lbs. per acre) a total of 70,208 LBS. CURED 
HAY PER ACRE, while Timothy growing alongside under same con- 
ditions yielded only one cutting of 2,400 /bs. per acre. 
Country Gentleman says: 
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