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PETER HENDERSON & CO. -CLYDESDALE OATS. 



HENDERSON'S NEW CLYDESDALE OATS. 



A Variety of White Oats cf Extraordinary Weight, Earliness and Productiveness, 



The Natural Weight of wliich is 

 51 lbs. to the bushel. 



Thorough and careful trials by 

 many of our best American farmers, 

 as well as by the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, show 

 that imported (British) oats weigh- 

 ing 44 lbs. per bushel give a pro- 

 duct when sown here of 40 lbs. 

 per bushel, or nearly 10 lbs. per 

 bushel more than our ordinary oats. 

 In this new Clydesdale Oat we not 

 only have the extraordinary weight 

 of 51 lbs. per bushel, but, from its 

 great earliness, ripening about ten 

 days before any other kind — hence 

 harvesting in cooler weather — it is 

 fair to expect the product of this va- 

 riety sown here would be 46 lbs. per 

 bushel, or up to the full standard of 

 the best imported oats. It will be 

 seen, then, that even if the amount 

 required to seed an acre be §14.00 

 (3 bushels), the product in weight 

 and value will be over half as much 

 again. In other words, if the cost 

 of the ordinary oats to seed an acre 

 be $1 50, and the product be 60 

 bushels, or about 1,800 lbs., the 

 product of the Clydesdale Oats 

 (being 46 lbs. to the bushel) should 

 be about 2,750 lbs., showing a clear 

 gain of 950 lbs. in yield, which 

 would be, according to the Amer- 

 ican standard (32 lbs.), 30 bushels 

 per acre more in favor of the Clydes- 

 dale Oats. Besides this clear gain 

 in yield, it should also be remem- 

 bered that if the product of the 

 Clydesdale Oats were used again for 

 seed purposes, as it probably would 

 be in the majority of cases, the value 

 would be still further increased; for 

 the price of oats for seed purposes, 

 as is well known, at 46 lbs. per 

 bushel is always at least twice the 

 price of ordinary oats. We offer 

 these new oats for sale at the natu- 

 ral weight of 5 1 lbs. per bushel, ex- 

 actly as grown for us, so that those 

 purchasing will actually receive for 

 every bushel over one and one-half 

 bushels according to the American 

 standard. Another most important 

 advantage of the Henderson's 

 Clydesdale Oats to the farmer is the 

 fact that they have been thoroughly 

 cleaned by the latest and most 

 improved machinery, and are ab- 

 solutely free from foreign and weed 

 seeds. 



Price, by express or freight, Si. 50 

 per peck; $5.00 per bushel (of 31 

 lis.). Or we will supply three 

 bushels (153 lbs.), the quantity re- 

 quired to seed an acre, for $14.00. 

 I lb. sent post-paid, by mail, for 

 50 cents. 



KENBEKSON'S CLYDESDALE OATS, 



