HENDERSON’S FARMERS MANUAL 1 
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 considered 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 is made of the 
Forty-Four Years After 
climated foreign Grasses and Clovers, blended and improved upon during 
exhaustive trials under widely varied conditions, soils and localities for sev- 
eral 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 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 received from the users, and the trib- 
utes to their merits published in many of the 
agricultural journals. 
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 fiourish 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 ac- 
A much delayed testimony in regard to 
some grass seed purchased from you forty- 
four years ago, known as Hay and Perma- 
nent Pasture Grass Seed Mixture. This lot 
has been in pasture ever since I put in the 
seed, and is still a No. 1 pasture; in fact 
the best pasture on the farm. It had always 
Seen known that time, as a hard lot to keep 
seeded. 
AmsroseE M. Cutver, Amenia, N. Y. 
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 de- 
scription 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. $4.00; 251bs. $8.75; 
100 lbs. $30.00; 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. This Mixed clover 
comprises White Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. Sow 10 pounds per acre. 
Price, lb. 70c.; 101 bs. $6.00; 25 lbs. $14.00; 1001bs. $55.00; purchaser paying transportation. 
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. 
