Henderson’s Special Grass Mixture 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE 
PRODUCES WONDERFUL HAY CROPS AND LUXURIANT PASTURE. 
HIS famous mixture has 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. 
it is a well-balanced combination 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 PERMANENT, dense and deep-rooting turf that would yield year after 
year the maximum quantity of hay and afterwards to afford, if desired, a constant and abundant pasturage. 
important essential being superior quality, inviting, sweet and nourishing, whether as hay or pasture. 
Another 
That we have been 
successful is attested by the numerous letters of praise for this special grass mixture that we have received from the users, and 
the tributes to its merits published in many of the agricultural journals. 
of these encomiums on page 6. 
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. 
In Earliness this special grass mixture is about two weeks 
ahead of Timothy, enabling the haying to be finished before 
grain harvesting presses. This earliness gives a longer 
growing season for the aftermath, whether it is to be pastured 
or again cut for hay. 
Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the grass commences 
to grow at once, recovering its verdure in a few days’ time and 
affording 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 crop- 
ping—proving its value over Timothy, which would be injured, 
probably ruined, under similar conditions. 
Permanency. MHenderson’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 com- 
mences to become thin and in three or four years must be plowed 
up and resown or rotated—with all of the attendant expense. 
Heat and Drought-Resisting. The various kinds of grasses 
composing this special mixture are fibrous, deep-rooting varie- 
ties that spread and intermingle, forming a tough matted sod, 
free from stooling 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. 
> PRICES 
Space permits us to print extracts from but a few 
Adapted to a Wide Range of Soils and Climate. This 
special mixture of grasses will thrive under a greater variety 
of soil and climatic conditions than Timothy, and in many 
instances gives bountiful returns where Timothy can scarcely 
be grown. 
Daisies cannot exist in an established field of this special 
grass mixture—which covers the ground so thoroughly with 
dense turf, and if daisies be in the field they do not get a chance 
to seed, the hay being ready to cut before the daisies are ripe. 
The Initial Cest 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—includ- 
ing the permanency of a maintained yield—the first expense 
will be found a paying and satisfactory investment. 
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. 
To those accustomed to sow Timothy and Clover, the quantity 
of seed we recommend will seem iarge, but the seeds of these 
permanent grasses are quite different from Timothy, being 
much larger and lighter; but experience has proven that satis- 
factory results cannot be obtained with less seed than we 
recommend, unless under exceptionally favorable 
stances. It may be sown in either spring or fall. 
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 
circum- 
| the soil and climate, and the purpose for which sown, and if 
with or without a grain crop, should accompany each order. 
FULL DIRECTIONS FOR SOWING ENCLOSED IN EVERY 
BAG. 
Henderson’s Special Grass Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pasture, 
for light soils, medium soils or heavy soils (state which in ordering): 
$2.50 per bushel of 14 Ibs.; 20-bushel lots (@ $2.45 per bushel; 50 bushels (@ $2.40; 100 bushels (@ $2.35. 
Mixed Permanent Clovers 
10 Pounds required for 1 acre, $2.50. 
Should be sown in addition to the above grass mixtures, but on 
account of greater weight the clover should be sown separately, 
and in 
comprises White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. 
cold latitudes, in the spring. This mixed clover 
