RECORD OLA DRYSUWIWIER, 1895. 



HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES 



FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 



The summer of 1895 will long bs remembered as one of extreme drought which materially shortened the Hay Crop 

 throughout the Eastern States, and in many sections the pastures were completely burned up. 



At our own Trial Farm the superiority of our Grass Mixtures over the ordinary seeding of Timothy and Clover and 

 all other grasses growing singly during the dry weather was most conspicuous, and it did not require a critical examination 

 to show the cause. 



The dense sod formed by the close habit of growth of the Mixed Grasses completely covered the ground and formed 

 a perfect protection to the roots, and not only shielded the soil against the direct rays of the sun, but reduced evaporation, 

 so that moisture could always be found much nearer the surface wherever the ground was thoroughly covered by a close 

 growing sod. Our customers had the same experience, as the following letters show. These and the letters on pages 6 

 and 7 are strong endorsements of our claims that Henderson's Special Grass Mixtures for Hay and Permanent 

 Pasture are superior not only to Timothy and Clover, but any other 0)ie grass, at all times, but especially in dry seasons. 



I have been particularly well pleased with my sheep pastures JuriuR this 

 exceptionally dry autumn. They were seeded with your Permanent Grass 

 Uiztnre six and seven years ag'o, and have steadily improved during 

 that time. When ordinary pastures ■were bare duringr the dry 

 weather, these g'ave constant feed. 



other pastures, grazed liy cattle, also seeded with your Mixture, have been 

 very satisfactory. Tliese were seeded two and three years ago. Very truly yours, 



.James Woot>, 

 Mount Kiaco, N. Y., Oct. 18th, 1895. Ex-President New York State Agricultural 



Society, and New York State Agricultural 

 Commissioner at the World's Fair. 



The Permanent Grass Mixture bought of you has proved a complete success 

 this year. After the hay was cut, there was a long drought, but the aftergrowth 

 lias made more pasture, than on all the rest of the Timothy fields 

 (27 acres), and my horses and cows like it and thrive better on it. A great 

 many are feeding hay, but I have been pasturing this ten acres of Permanent Grass 

 and it does not seem to diminish like the Timothy iields. I can highly recommend 

 it ; the stock fattens on the hay in the winter; in fact, I do not know how to i^raise 

 it highly enough. I feel greatly indebted to you for the seed. Yours truly, 



Howard Nelson. 

 Monsey, N. Y., Nov. 9th, 1895. 



Your Permanent Grass Mixture has stood the drought we have had the last two 

 seasons remarkably well, and after taking the hay crop off. has given abundantafter 

 feed. One field that was seeded down with Barley last year gave us two food crops 

 of hay and is now affording splendid pasture for the cows. Had we been de- 

 pending upon Timothy, we would have been in the same fix some of 

 our neighbors are in, very little hay and no after feed. Yours truly, 



W, G. Appleby. 

 Bennington, Vt., Oct. 18th, 1895. 



The Permanent Grass Mixture purchased from you two years ago was sown 

 on a very trying piece of ground, and the first season we thought it a failure, but 

 the next season, although very dry, the grass was fine and we cut two good crops. 

 The past season has been a very trying one on all ground this way, 

 but the Permanent was good, and to-day looks like a lawn, after cut- 

 ting two good crops. Yours very truly, 



J. Dart h Son. 

 Hartford, Conn., Oct. 21st, 1895. 



The Permanent Grass Mixture I got of you stood the drought much better than 

 the Timothy. Yours truly, 



Ernest Burgdorf. 

 Washington, D. C, Oct. 21st, 1895. 



The permanent pasture is in decidely better condition after the 

 prolonged drought than any other grass land on my place, except the 

 tennis ground put down with your lawn grass some years ago. Yours truly, 



S. W. Swords. 

 New Hamburgh, N. Y., Oct. 23d, 1895. 



The field of mixed grass gave a good hay crop this year, and I do not see that 

 it has suffered materially from the drought. Am pleased with it as compared with 

 Timothy on my own place. Yours truly, 



H. T. FOOTE. 

 New York, Oct. 28th, 1895. 



The Permanent Gi'ass Mixture I have used now for about eight years, and 

 prefer it in every way for feeding purposes. My horses like it much belter than 

 Timothy, as also my cows. Parties who visit me here say they never saw their 

 horses eat any hay like they do the Mixture. 



So far as drought is concerned, I think it stands it better than the other grass. 

 I would grow nothing else in the way of hay on my place. Yours truly, 



„ , „ . „ James Chesterman. 



New York, Oct. 19th, 1895. 



We got more of a hay crop from your Permanent Grass Mixture than I had 

 any idea of, and it stood the drought very well. Yours truly, 



John B. Russell. 

 Richmond Hill.L. I., Oct. 18th, 1895. 



I sowed some of your Special Grass Mixture on land which had been rented 

 to different parties for a number of years and was considered too poor to seed down 

 and insure a catch. I sowed in April with fertilizer. The soil is a sandy loam and 

 inclined to leach. I did not cut it the first season, which was a mistake, for thelate 

 growth of the Orchard Grass was so strong that it weakened the other grasses. Last 

 year and this year I got fair crops, and nothing has been put on the land since time 

 of sowing. I do not call this a fair test of its merits, but a severe one. One grand 

 feature i s that it holds the ground ; Ragweeds, Dewberry and Pivefinger 

 vines have not put in an appearance. If Timothy and Clover had been 

 used the weeds would have taken possession. 



James B. Palmer. 

 Bran ford, Conn. 



Your Permanent Grass Mixture has stood the drought well, and is better than 

 Timothy or any other grasses that have been tried here as pasture. Comparing it 

 with hay, think them about equal in merits. Yours very truly. 



Briar Cliff Farms. 

 Whitsons, N. Y., Oct. 17th, 1895. 



The Grass Mixture has stood the drought very well, and has proven to be the 

 best for late pasture. Very truly, 



A. R. Allen. 

 Wyckoff, N. J., Oct. 25th, 1895. 



The results were entirely satisfactory: the aftergrowth has been good. I 

 think the Mixture superior to any other seed I have ever used. Very truly yours, 



E. A. Tuttle. 

 New York, Oct. 28th, 1895. 



The field on which I sowed the Grass Mixture mowed a very good crop of hay, 

 and the grass is now better than our fields that were sown with Timothy. 



Yours truly, A. A. Cobielyotj. 



Neshanic Station, N. J., Oct. 29th, 1895. 



There is no comparison whatever between the way in which the Timothy and 

 the Grass Mixture have stood the drought. The meadow which I planted with Grass 

 Mixture last year is much better than it was in the spring, whereas the Timothy has, 

 I think, suffered from the summer. Yours truly, 



Charles M. Marsh. 

 New York, Oct. 28th, 1895. 



I am well pleased with the grass seed you sent me. I am getting all my 

 meadows seeded with Permanent Grass seed ; prefer it to Timothy or any other 

 kind of seed. Truly yours, 



John Shields. 

 Flemington, N. J., Oct. 18th, 1895. 



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