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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 abtmdant 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 

 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 ac- 



Forty-Four Years After 



A much delayed testimony in regard to 

 some grass seed purchased from yon jorty- 

 jour 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 

 been known that time, as a hard lot to keep 

 seeded. 



Ambrose M. Culver, Amenia, N. Y. 



climated foreign Grasses and Clovers, blended and improved upon during 

 exhaustive trials under widely varied conditions, soils and localities for sev- 

 eral years, tmtil 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 pastui-e. 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. 



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; 25 lbs. S8.75; 

 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. 80c.; 10 lbs. $7.00; 25 lbs. $16.25; 100 lbs. 



.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. 



