UA. PETER HENDERSON &CO., NEW YORK: ~~ 
HENDERSON'S 
SUPERIOR, 
SPRING SEED WHEAT roititrigis 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR SEED WHEAT is not only grown especially for seed purposes from choicest selected cross-bred and 
pedigree strains, but it is all recleaned at our warehouses (750,000 bushels capacity), which are equipped with the most modern seed- 
cleaning machinery in America. This enables us to supply direct to the farmer plump and heavy seed, of undoubted superiority, at 
lowest possible prices, where quality is considered. Often through pressure of other work, the seeding of Winter Wheat is neglected 
until too late and is either not sown at all or results in failure. With the two varieties of Spring Wheat here offered, this difficulty 
can be overcome by Spring sowing. They are the best of the Spring Wheats, yield well, and the milling quality of the grain surpasses 
even the best of the winter varieties. Spring wheat is also a satisfactory crop to sow along with grass seed. 
The prices herein named are those ruling at this date (February, 1912), for the crop of 1911 but they are subject to market fluctuations. 
Delivery f. o. b. New York, bags extra. 
Saskatchewan Fife 
The favorite variety in the great Spring Wheat sections of the 
Northwest, where it is much esteemed by the farmer for its earliness, 
productiveness, vigorous growth and: freedom from smut and dis- 
eases, and by the miller on account of its unsurpassed milling 
qualities. (See cut.) 
Price, $2.60 per bushel (60 lbs.); 10-bushel lots, $2.50 per bushel. 
Special quotations to large buyers. 
Wellman Fife 
The best of all the Spring Wheats, having large heads and grain, 
and tall, strong straw, with white chaff heads and dark amber 
kernels. The grain is very hard and produces the finest grade of 
flour: Enormously productive, and is invaluable for spring sowing 
where the Winter Wheat has been killed; or where it was not sown. 
Price, $2.70 per bushel (60 lbs.) ; 10-bushel lots, $2.60 per bushel. 
“Last spring I purchased one quart of the Saskatchewan Fife Spring Wheat. I sowed the same on five square rods of land where one crop had been grown before. 
1 threshed four bushels and forty-four pounds of very fine wheat, weighing sixty-five pounds to the bushel. I found some stools that contained as many as eighty stalks of 
bearing size from one kernel. Most of the stools contained from forty to fifty stalks. 
again from a like amount of seed. 
HENDERSON'S 
SUPERIOR, 
That was more than I expected to raise, and I think more than ever will be raised 
J. W. NOOTNY, Angus, Minn. 
WINTER SEED VVHEAT  reticaee’ stains 
LET US BOOK YOUR ORDER NOW FOR SOME OF HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR WINTER SEED VWHEAT.FOR NEXT FALL S -SOWING 
TO BE SHIPPED, CROPS PERMITTING, FROM 1912 CROPS AS SOON AS READY AT OUR LOWEST PRICES:AT THE TIME OF SHIPMENT 
“Bearded” Rural New Yorker 
Has heavily-bearded symmetrical heads pointed at the tip, broad in 
the middle, and tapering towards the stem. The straw is unusually 
tall and strong and stools freely, frequently having 35 to 40 stalks 
from a single grain. The heads are compact, averaging three kernels 
to a spikelet or ‘‘breast,” and ten breasts to a side. The kernels 
are of medium size and of an attractive color, between the so-called 
“red” and amber, possessing the requisite degree of hardness for 
the production of the finest grade of flour, and is much sought after 
by millers. The chaff is clear white, with a trace of velvet sufficient 
to make it difficult for the green fly to attack it, and the heads do 
not mildew as the full velvet chaff varieties are liable to do. Price, 
80c. per peck; $2.50 per bushel; 10 bushel lots, $2.40 per bushel. 
“Beardless’” Rural New Yorker 
This beardless variety is a hybrid between Rye and Armstrong 
Wheat, though all traces of Rye have disappeared and it now appears 
a handsome, beardless Wheat. It succeeds and produces heavy 
crops on poor, thin land, where Wheat could not be successfully 
or profitably grown, and it also has extreme hardiness to recommend 
it. The gold-colored straw is very thick and strong, easily support- 
ing the heavy grain without breaking. The large amber kernels 
are placed four to a breast, eight breasts to a side, with long symmet- 
tical heads having a brown chaff. One of our growers says: 
“It stools as strong as any wheat I ever saw. It had a vigorous, healthy growth 
all the season, and stood well without lodging. It is very hardy.”’ 
Price, 80c. per peck; $2.50 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.40 per 
bushel. 
Gold Coin (Beardless) 
A very popular wheat that the increasing demand for the seed 
would indicate is a most satisfactory variety over a large extent of 
territory. It is unusually productive, having yielded over 60 bushels 
per acre—while 50 and over is not unusual—and even on large 
acreages it seldom runs under 40 bushels per acre. One of its 
enthusiastic users writes: 
“Tt is the best variety for yielding and standing up ever placed before the American 
farmer, and fairly crowds out other kinds where it has been tried in thts section. 
““Clawson and Fife do well on my farm, but the Gold Coin does best of all. You 
should call it ‘Henderson's Best of All Wheat.’”’ 
The straw is very stiff and does not lodge even on the richest land. 
The head is long and compactly filled with choice white grain, fre- 
quently having five kernels abreast. Price, 80c. per peck, $2.50 
per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.40 per bushel. 
Pride of Genesee (Bearded) 
One of the most productive varieties, having a long, well-filled 
head, and the fact that it will give a reasonably good crop on land 
so poor that common sorts would be a failure, cannot fail to make 
it a popular sort, as the head does not decrease in proportion to the 
straw, being large and well filled on a very short, light growth of 
straw. Price, 80c. per peck; $2.50 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, 
$2.40 per bushel. 
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