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HENDERSON'S AMERICAN FARMER'S MANUAL. 



HENDERSON'S SPECIAL G 



MIXTURES 



FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 



s^gCAN BE SOWN IN EITHER SPRINC OR FflLL. = 



Read what the Agricultural Press and our Customers say about Henderson's Grasses, See Circular. 



PERMANENT PHSTURE, 



HENDERSON'S SPECIAL Gil ASS 3IIXTUUE for Permanent Pasture, consisting of the following varieties: 

 Orchard Grass, Meadow Foxtail, Tall Meadow Oat Grass, Sheep's Fescue, Rhode Island or Creeping Bent, Hard Fescue, 

 Sweet Scented Vernal (True Perennial), Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass, Kentucky Blue Grass, Italian Rye Grass, Red 

 Top, etc., as recommended in our book, " How the Ear in Pays," blended in the proper proportions, we will supply for 



$2.50 per bushel of 14 lbs. (20-bushel lots, $2.25 per bushel). 



On rich alluvial land 3 bushels of this mixture is sufficient to seed an acre, but where the soil is poor a larger quantity will be 

 necessary. 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. While the 

 leading variety used in these mixtures is Orchard Grass, the addition of the several other Grasses named add to its value ; because 

 Orchard Grass sown alone has a tendency to form tussocks or clumps, which, however, can be overcome by thick seeding. 



$&* We have heard the claim made that Orchard Grass is tough and pithy. It should be borne in mind that Orchard Grass is about 

 three weeks earlier than Timothy, and that it will certainly be pithy if allowed to stand and be harvested at the same time as Timothy. 

 If cut at the proper time, however, there is no grass which makes better hay. 



At our Farm, last season, one of these Permanent Mixtures yielded (first cutting, 5,888 lbs.; second 

 cutting, 4,320 lbs. per acre), a total of 10,208 LBS. CURED HAY PER ACRE , while Xiniothy growing 

 alongside under same conditions yielded only one cutting of 2,400 lbs. per acre. 



Peteb Henderson & Co. 



Gentlemen: — Please send 

 me as soon as possible 10 

 bushels of Red Top Grasa 

 Seed, 5 bushels of Orchard 

 Grass Seed, and 5 bushels 

 of Winter Eye. I intend to 

 bow this seed upon my place 

 in the country, and am very 

 anxious to have all of it 

 clean and pure, and for this 

 reason I send to you, believing 

 that in this way I am most 

 likely to receive just what I 

 want. The land is not the 

 hest, and the proprietor 

 knows but little about farm- 

 ing, hence the seed must be 

 very good. 



Vours truly, 



Gbover Cleveland. 

 Executive Mansion. Wash- 

 ington, D. C, March 27th, 

 1888. 



Tour Permanent Pasture 

 Mixture I like in preference 

 to all others. It makes the 

 prettiest meadow of them 

 all and turns off lots of 

 excellent hay. 



A. a. Browning. 



Austin, Colo., Dec. 13th, 

 1891. 



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HENDERSON'S "SPECIAL 

 CRASS MIXTURE 



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"SEETHE CONTRAST 



TIMOTHY aiJbCLQVER, 



In 1889 I sowed some of 

 your Special Grass Mixture. 

 The land had been rented to 

 different parties for a num- 

 ber of years and was consid- 

 ered too poor to seed down 

 and insure a catch. I 

 sowed on the loth of April 

 with fertilizer. The soil is 

 a sandy loam and inclined 

 to leach. I did not cut it 

 the first season, which was 

 a mistake, for the iate 

 growth of the Orchard Grass 

 was so strong that it weak- 

 ened the other grasses. Last 

 year and this year I got fair 

 crops, and nothing has been 

 put on the land since time 

 of sowing. I do not call this 

 a fair test of its merits, but 

 a severe one. One grand 

 feature is that it holds the 

 ground ; Ragweeds, Dewberry 

 and Fivefinger vines have not 

 put in an appearance. If 

 Timothy and Clover had been 

 usrd the weeds -would have 

 taken possession. 



jAjrES B. Palmer. 



Branford.Conn., Oct. 29th, 

 1891. 



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HendersorTs Special Grass Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils \ 



Medium soils / $2.50 



Heavy soils Uer bushel 



Orchards and Shady Places / p ei 



Hay Only. Specially recommended where a hay crop only is desired. .A of 14 lbs. 

 Pasture Only. A mixture which ■will stand close cropping without injury. ) 



20-bushel lots, $2.25 per bushel. 'Special quotations for LARGfE quantities. 



To this mixture, intended for either Mowing Lands or Pasture (but which on account of its greater weight should be sown 

 separately), is to be added 10 lbs. of Mixed Clovers, comprising White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, Trefoil, etc., but this 

 should only be sown in the spring, as it is rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 



The quantity needed (10 lbs.) of MIXED CLOVERS to sow an acre we will sell for $2.00. 



At first sight S7.50 to S10.00 per acre appears to be a high price for the seeding of a pasture, but bear in mind that it is a 

 permanent pasture that we have in view, and nowhere can a permanent pasture be laid down properly for a less original 

 outlay than that we name. 



FIH.I, DIRECTIONS EOR SOWING ENCLOSED IN EVERY BAG, 



