DEPARTMENT 
OF 
GRASS SEEDS 
It has been fully demonstrated by the careful trials conducted 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 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. We have been for years well aware of the above facts, through our own exhaustive 
experiments and studies, and no better meadows or pastures can be found than those laid down with our various grass 
seed mixtures. They comprise the following: 
HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE 
COMBINED 
HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE FOR PERMANENT PASTURE 
HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE FOR PERMANENT HAY 
HENDERSON'S RENOVATING MIXTURE FOR IMPROVING OLD PASTURES 
HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE FOR VVOODLAND PASTURES 
Fully described on pages 3, 4, 5 and 6. 
These famous mixtures have seeded thousands of acres of meadow 
and pasture land for progressive farmers and stock raisers in various 
parts of the United States, with most gratifying results. They are well- 
balanced combinations of a number of native and acclimated foreign 
grasses and clovers, blended and improved upon during exhaustive 
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 of heat, drought and cold, a PER- 
MANENT, 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 
Prices, $2.75 per bushel of 14 Ibs.; 50 
from the users, and the tributes to their merits published in many 
of the agricultural journals. Space permits us to print extracts 
from but a few of these encomiums. 
A Description of Soil and Locality should be given when ordering. 
In the preparation of these mixtures for permanent pasture, 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. To 
| facilitate this, a description of the soil and climate, and the purpose 
| for which sown, and if with or without a grain crop, should accom- 
| pany each order. 
| FULL DIRECTIONS FOR SOWING ENCLOSED IN EVERY 
| BAG. 
bushels @, $2.65; 100 bushels @ $2.60. 
MIXED PERMANENT CLOVERS 
10 POUNDS REQUIRED FOR | ACRE, $3-50 
Should be sown in addition to the above grass mixtures, but on 
account of greater weight the Clover should be sown separately, 
and in cold latitudes, in the spring. This mixed Clover comprises 
White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. 
JUST HARVESTED THE TENTH CROP OF 
MOST SATISFACTORY HAY 
“*Tt may interest you to hear as it is a pleasure to me 
to be able to inform you that from the Permanent Pasture 
Grass Seed purchased from you six years ago, I have 
just harvested the tenth crop of most satisfactory hay. This 
makes two good crops for each of the five years afler sowing. 
The remarks, ‘What a beautiful field it ts’ and ‘It looks 
like a lawn’ are often made and they please me greatly.” 
GEORGE MOORE, Fanwood, N. J. 
it} SELES iSEEE 
“The Special Grass Seed you sold me last September 
has turned oul so well that I am ordering more to seed 
another field.”’ 
Mr. JOHN C. HUNT, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
SURPASSED EXPECTATIONS 
“‘T am pleased to report that your Special Grass Mix- 
ture for Hay and Pasture sowed by me three years ago on 
an eight acre field, has surpassed my expectations."’ 
ARNOLD C. SAPORTAS, Pocantico Hills, N. Y. 
extent. 
The grasses found in mixtures draw 
their food from the soil at various depths 
—having different root formations. 
Thus the land is utilized to the fullest 
IT PAYS TO CHANGE FROM TIMOTHY 
““T desire to advise you that I am changing all my fields 
from Timothy to your Permanent Grass Seed as I find the 
latter to be entirely satisfactory. My horses and cattle 
relish it very much more and my crops have been consider- 
ably increased.”’ 
W. D. HENRY, Irvington Farm, Sewickley, Pa. 
SEVERE DROUGHT, BUT EXCELLENT 
PASTURE 
““Vour Special Grass Mixture has done well for me. 
It produced this season, the largest crop of hay that I ever 
saw cul off the ground, and has been yielding a most excel- 
lent pasture for over a month past, and this notwithstanding 
the extraordinary severity of the drought in this vicinity.’” 
R. S. TAYLOR, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
WOULD DO YOUR HEART GOOD TO SEE IT 
“‘T wish you could see my Permanent Grass; it would 
do vour heart good. JI expect a very big crop." 
R. P. McGRANN, Grand View Farms, Lancaster, Pa, 
