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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES. 
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FARMER and BREEDER 
SHOULD SEND FOR 
HENDERSON’S 
American Farmers’ 
Manual. 
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What Our Customers Say: 
IN MAINE. 
I did not succeed in getting four tons or more 
per acre, but 1 did get more than from anything 
else, and it is splendid hay.—G. M. HOLMES. 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
The Special Grass Mixtures have been most 
successful, in spite of an unusually trying sea- 
son. Yieldeda crop of hay more than twice as 
great per acre as the timothy, which 1 sowed 
alongside at the same time.—R. V. LINDABURY. 
IN IOWA. 
Your Grass Mixture has done exceedingly well, 
especially in this year of drouth. It yielded 
about twice as much as timothy, and cattle seem- 
ed to do better on it—W. WATSON. 
IN NEW YORK. 
Your Permanent Mixture is the finest piece of 
grass anywhere about here. An old farmer told 
me last week it would cut 314 tons to the acre 
sure.—J, M. RICHARDS. 
IN VERMONT. 
Your Grass Seeds are easily the best of any in 
the market.—F. C. KIMBALL. 
IN PENNSYLVANIA, 
The Permanent Pasture Grass was a perfect 
success. We never had such a good yield of grass. 
We mowed our meadows twice. 
—Wwm. Srmeson & Sons. 
The green appearance of the field attracted 
universal attention. It has far surpassed clover 
and timothy in the amount it yields. 
—J. B. CUMMINGS. 
IN VIRGINIA. 
My manager is enthusiastic over your mixture 
Sor Hay and Permanent Pasture. He claims this 
year he cut 3 tons per acre the first cutting, 1% 
tons the second, and will cut 2 tons the third. 
The fieldis a grand sight; people come for miles 
around to see it.—EDWARD E. BARNEY. 
IN INDIANA. 
Your Grass Seed produced the largest crop of 
hay I ever saw, and has yielded a most excellent 
pasture ever since, notwithstanding the extraor- 
dinary drouth in this vicinity.—R. S. TAYLOR. 
IN OHIO. 
The Special Grass Mixture has given us the very 
best of satisfaction ; it produced the finest piece 
of grass I ever saw and has given us a large 
amount of hay and pasture per acre. 
—W. J. HAYEs. 
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You cannot afford to ba without it, 
Special Grass 
Mixtures 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 
Consisting of the following varie- 
ties: Orchard Grass, Meadow Foxtail, 
Sheep’s Feseue, Rhode Island or 
Creeping Bent, Hard Fescue, Sweet 
Scented Vernal (True Perennial), Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass, Ital- 
ian Rye Grass, Red Top, ete., as recommended in our book **HOW THE 
FARM PAYS,” blended in proportions which, we have found from actual use, 
give the most satisfactory results. 
On ordinary fertile soil three bushels of this mixture is sufficient to seed an 
acre, but where the land is poor a larger quantity will be necessary. Taking 
one soil with another a fair average would be three bushels to the acre. 
WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS 
WITHOUT RENEWAL. 
For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils, 
es Mediuraeoils: $2.50 per bu. of 14 Ibs. 
Ke a ct i Heavy soils, 2.45 “ 20-bu. lots, 
“ Orchards and Shady Places, . .... . 
A SHOP NONI AO es ante eae ae ee see te 2.40 “ 50-bu. * 
ISM OMIh (acne so oo 6 oslo 6 
“ Renovating Old Pastures, . . . ... . 2.35“ 
700-bu. “ 
To these mixtures, intended for either Mowing Lands or Pasture (but which 
on account of their greater weight should be sown separately), are to be added 
ten pounds of Mixed Clovers, comprising White, Mammoth, Perennial or Cow 
Grass, Alsike, Trefoil, etc., but these should only be sown in the spring, as 
they are rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 
“Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of 
finer kinds, and the close, rich turf hid every particle of soil.” 
American Agriculturist says: ‘Such mixtures are far superior to Tim- 
othy, or ‘Timothy and Clover,’ or any one grass, costing but a little more, 
lasting much longer, and giving frequently more than double the yield.’’ 
Farm and Home says: ‘The enormous yield of nearly four and one-half 
tons of good hay per acre should convince any one that more hay and 
better pasture can be grown with mixtures than with Timothy and Clover alone, as under the very saine 
conditions the latter yielded less than a ton and a half per acre.” 
Ifow the Farm Pays says: ‘Far in advance not only of Timothy but of any other Grass we have thus far 
in cultivation.” 
At our Farm one of these Mixtures yielded (first cutting, 5,888 /bs. ; 
second cutting, 4,320 Ibs. per acre) a total of 10.208 LBS. CURED 
HAY PER ACRE, while Timothy growing alongside under same con- 
ditions yielded only one cutting of 2,400 /bs. per acre. 
Country Gentleman says : 
OPINIONS OF 
THE PRESS. 
FALL SOWING IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL. 
