HENDERSON'S AGRICULTURAL SEED! 



High Quality Strains for Better Crops 



Full directions for sowing enclosed in every bag. In ordering, slate whether for Light Soils, Heavy Soils or Medium. 



HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE 

 Special Grass Seed Mixture 



Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Pasture, Main- 

 taining Its Cropping Qualities Twenty Years or More 



It has been fully demonstrated by the careful trials con- 

 ducted 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. Pas- 

 tures seeded naturally are always found to contain many 

 varieties of Grasses growing and nourishing side by side with- 

 out 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. 



This mixture is made up of native and acclimated foreign 

 Grasses thoroughly blended, and improved upon during trials 

 under widely varied conditions, soils and localities for several 

 years until practically perfect, our aim being to produce, 

 under the extremes of the American climate, a permanent, 

 dense and deep-rooting turf that would yield year after year 

 the maximum quantity of foliage. These Grasses are of su- 

 perior quality, inviting, sweet and nourishing. 



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., 75c j 10 

 50 lbs., $28.50; 100 lbs., 



lbs., $6.50; 25 lbs., $15.00; 

 $55.00; transportation paid. 



PERMANENT PASTURE |SmST 



There is no more important part of a farm than a good 

 pasture, and that can be obtained only by the use of the 

 proper Grasses, varieties that have different root formations 

 and different habits and season of growth, in order to main- 

 tain a rich, close turf throughout the entire season. 

 Timothy alone should never be used for pasture because it 

 will not stand trampling, and soon runs out when heavily 

 pastured and at best is short-lived, as compared with the 

 permanent Grasses used in our Special Mixtures. These 

 Mixtures contain over a dozen of the best permanent Grasses 

 both American-grown and imported. All are permanent, 

 and when once established will last indefinitely, if the 

 fertility of the soil is kept up by occasional top-dressing. Sow 

 40 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb., 75c; 10 lbs., $6.50; 25 lbs., ^$15.00; 

 50 lbs., $28.50; 100 lbs., $55.00; transportation paid. 



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PERMANENT HAY 5ffli£55 



Although the most widely cultivated Hay Grass in the United States 

 is Timothy, or a mixture of Timothy and Clover, and while they answer 

 the purposes admirably on farms where the soil is suitable and where 

 the usual three and four years' rotation is carried on, yet there are many 

 Grasses which will yield more profitable returns. 



An acre of Henderson's Special Grass Mixture for Permanent Hay will 

 yield double the quantity of an acre of Timothy and Clover, and the farmer 

 whose land is sown with a proper mixture of Permanent Grasses, requiring 

 only an occasional top-dressing of manure or fertilizer to maintain heavy 

 cropping qualities for twenty years or more, avoids the expense of the yearly 

 plowing and cultivating necessary in rotation cropping. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb., 75c; 10 lbs., $6.50; 25 lbs., $15.00; 50 lbs., $28.50; 

 100 lbs., $55.00; transportation paid. 



WOODLAND PASTURES Special Grass Seed Mixture 



It will make a closer and more even pasture than Orchard Grass alone. 

 An excellent ground covei; for orchards. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. 



Price, lb., $1.00; 10 lbs., $8.50; 25 lbs., $21.00; 50 lbs., $40.00; 

 100 lbs., $75.00; transportation paid. 



MIXED PERMANENT CLOVERS 



Do not omit to sow Clovers with the Grasses, as they add to the yield of 

 hay and pasture, collect atmospheric nitrogen and store it in the root nodules, 

 assist the growth of the Grasses and are of benefit to subsequent crops. Per- 

 manent 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 Red — Medium. Wild White, Ladino, Alsike, etc. Sow 10 lbs. 

 per acre. 



Price, lb., $1.20; 10 lbs., $10.00; 25 lbs., $23.50; 50 lbs., $45.00; 

 100 lbs., $85.00. 



(Purchaser pays transportation charges on clovers) 



