PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 



HENDERSON'S SPECIAL GKASS MIXTURE FOR 



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Hay and Permanent Pasture 



PRODUCES WONDEKFUL HAY CKOPS AND LUXUKIANT PASTURE 



The Yield of Hay under favorable conditions averages 3 to 4 tons 

 per acre at the first cutting, or nearly double that of Timothy and 

 Clover, and larger yields are not unusual; then, if not pastured, the 

 second crop is usually about one-half the quantity of the first. This 

 shows the great value of this special mixture of grasses over Timothy 

 which seldom yields a second crop, nor can it be pastured after 

 cutting without seriously damaging the next season's yield, for 

 Timothy after cutting throws its strength into its bulbous base, on 

 which its yield the next season depends. 



Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the grass commences to 

 grow at once, recovering its verdure in a few days' time and afford- 

 ing a continuous pasturage even through dry summer weather, until 

 winter sets in; or the field may be pastured from earliest spring and 

 still be in prime condition for yielding hay or pasture the next season, 

 and so on year after year, for the various grasses 'composing this 

 special mixture are all dense, fibrous-rooting varieties, sustaining 

 no injury from cropping — proving its value over Timothy, which 

 would be injured, probably ruined, under similar conditions. 



In Earliness this special grass mixture is about two weeks ahead 

 of Timothy, enabling the haying to be finished before grain harvest- 

 ing presses. This earliness gives a longer growing season for the 

 aftermath, whether it is to be pastured or again cut for hay. 



Permanency. Henderson's Special Grass Mixture for Hay and 

 Permanent Pasture, if properly laid down, will maintain its heavy 

 cropping qualities twenty years and more if occasionally top- 



dressed with manure or suitable commercial fertilizer, and it will 

 steadily improve, whereas a stand of Timothy soon commences to 

 become thin and in three or four years must be plowed up and resown 

 or rotated — with all the attendant expense. 



Heat and Drought-Resisting. The various kinds of grasses com- 

 posing this special mixture are fibrous, deep-rooting varieties that 

 spread and intermingle, forming a tough matted sod, free from stool- 

 ing or tussock growth, and, in consequence, the grasses protect their 

 own roots and are therefore less susceptible to extremes of heat and 

 drought, retaining their verdure even through dry, hot weather, 

 when Timothy is burned up. 



The Seed Required. The amount of seed necessary to sow an 

 acre largely depends on the quality of the land: the poorer the soil 

 the larger the quantity required. Taking one soil with another, and 

 owing to the fact that the seeds we use are of higher quality and 

 better cleaned than ever, a fair average would be 3 bushels to the 

 acre. The thicker the seeds are sown the sooner will a fine, close 

 turf be obtained. It may be sown either spring or fall. 



The Initial Cost is More in seeding with Henderson's Special 

 Grass Mixture, but the ultimate, returns are much more profitable 

 than those from ordinary hay and pasture fields, and when the other 

 advantages are considered — including the permanency of a main- 

 tained yield — the first expense will be found a paying and satisfactory 

 investment. 



PRICES Henderson's Special Grass Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pasture 



For Light Soils, Medium Soils or Heavy Soils (state which in ordering) 



$2.75 per bushel of 14 lbs.; 50 bushels <§ $2.65; 100 bushels @ $2.60. Mixed Permanent Clovers, 10 lbs. sufficient to sow an acre, 

 $3.00; should be sown in spring. (See page 2.) 



"The grass seed mixture I got from you last spring made a good sod and is 

 admired by farmers here. It is all you claimed for it. Some think the price is high, 

 but I tell them. 'I did not buy weeds to seed my land.'" 



M. RILEY . Mt. Savage, Md. 



"It may interest' you to kno-u- that I at ^rass 



seed mixture. I lai ■;<■ pice in 1906, and .;/ the sain. 



Herd's Grass and Timothy. The "Special' looks bet .while 



I had to plow up the Herd's trass — all played i>.-</. / also laid another pieci 

 you) seed in 1907. It is looking nice." GEO. M. HOLMES. B 



