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HENDERSON'S FARM SEEDS 



FOR SUMMER SOWING 



C"ARM SEEDS we do not deliver free, but when small quantities are wanted by express or mail, we will prepay postage or 

 * carriage, if 8c. per lb. or 10c. per qt. is added to prices. Prices of Farm Seeds are subject to change w'thout notice. Special 

 prices can often be made on large quantities. Write us. 



HENDERSON'S 

 SUPERIOR RE^CLEANED 



ALFALFA or LUCERN 



MEDICAGO 

 SATIVA 



FOR SUMMER SOWING. 



Yields Good Crops in all Sections of the United States. An Efficient Hay Producer and Soil'Enricher. 



It has been well said that if " Corn is king," 

 Alfalfa is the " queen of forage plants." That this 

 fact is being brought home to the farmers of the 

 North and East, is indicated to us by the enormous 

 increase in our sales of Henderson's Re-cleaned 

 Alfalfa Seed. 



Yet Alfalfa growing in the Northeast is only in its 

 infancy and we predict, in the near future, a vast 

 increase in the acreage devoted to its cultivation, 

 now that it has been shown by actual trials to yield 

 good crops in all sections of the United States. 

 Alfalfa is a true leguminous plant, and a perennial, 

 staying on the land for many years. It sends down its 

 long tap-roots into the subsoil, whatever depth that 

 may be — five, ten, twenty, or even thirty feet and 

 rfj utilizes the plant foods contained therein. It is a 

 n rn liirm'T^r great soil-enricher, for the nodules on its roots are 



^JMMI Xt the home of bacteria that extract the nitrogen from 



the air and transform it into valuable fertilizing 

 element. For this purpose it is superior to any other 

 plant, because in addition to the nitrogen gathered 

 from the air its deep tap-roots bring up other mineral 

 constituents from the lower layers of soil, to be 

 utilized later by shallow feeding crops. It has been calculated by com- 

 petent authority that the amount of fertilizer, that will come from an 

 acre of good Alfalfa is equal to what the farmer would pay $60.00 for, if pur- 

 chased by the bag. As a hay-producer it surely has no equal when once established, as 

 from three to four cuttings may be had in a season, according to conditions, totalling four 

 to six tons per acre. 



THE FEEDING VALUE OF ALFALFA 

 is very high, being very rich in protein — which builds up blood, muscle and bone in growing 

 animals. Corn and its fodder, and most other farm crops, are rich in carbo-hydrates, the 

 fat-forming element, but deficient in protein, so that Alfalfa is the best crop to balance up 

 the fat-forming feeds. Corn and Alfalfa form the ideal food for fattening all farm animals, 

 one supplementing the other. Alfalfa and Barley, Alfalfa and Wheat, or Alfalfa and Oats are all 

 excellent combinations. Alfalfa naturally prefers a rich, loose limestone soil with a porous sub- 

 soil; but it also grows and thrives on a variety of soils, and in many different climates. 

 Briefly theie are three essentials — the land must be drained if wet, it must be sweetened with lime if 

 acid, and there must be humus and nitrogen in the soil, which may be easily supplied by barnyard ma- 

 nures, or green crops plowed under. When lime is not present in the soil, it must be supplied, the 

 amount used being 1 ton of quicklime, or 2 tons of ground limestone per acre. Alfalfa requires little 

 attention the first season unless there is a growth of twelve inches or more before cold weather. This 

 should be clipped back to eight inches or so and will then be in a good condition for wintering. Full cuttings can be taken off the 

 following summer and fall. The crop should be cut when the plants are about one-tenth in bloom, being at that stage much more 

 digestible than when older. The time to sow in the North and Eastern States is June, July or August, 30 to 40 lbs. per acre if broadcasted or 25 to 30 lbs. if 

 drilled in; in the South sow in February or September. (.See cut.) Price, Henderson's Superior Alfalfa Seed, 24c. per lb. ; S13.S0 per bu. of 60 lbs., $22.00 per 100 lbs. 



The U. S. Government Analysis Proves HENDERSON'S RECLEANED ALFALFA SEED the Purest. 

 " HENDERSON'S SAMPLE OF ALFALFA, J am glad to say, stood at the head of twelve other samples sent by me to the government for analysis. Kindly 

 ship to me at Wilcox Wharf, James River, Va„ enough to seed sixty acres. S. E. SAUNDERS, JR., Richmond, Va. 



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