HAYING SCENE AT GRAND VIEW FARMS, LANCASTER, PA., WHERE HENDERSON’S PERMANENT GRASS MIXTURES ARE USED. 
Be SOW THIS FALL -@a 
GRASS SEED MIX PURER eee 
HENDERSON'S 
Special 
It Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Luxuriant Pasture. 
Maintaining Its Cropping Qualities 20 Years or More. 
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. 
Tt 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. That we have been successful is attested by the nu- 
merous 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. Space permits us to print ex- 
tracts from but a few.of these enconiums, and we refer you, for the complete description of Henderson’s 
Special Grass Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pastures, to our ‘* Farmer’s Manual,’’ mailed on ap- 
plication. 
The Yield of Hay under favorable conditions averages 3 to 4 tons per acre at the first cutting, 
and larger yields are not unusual; then, if not pastured, the second crop is usually about one-half the 
quantity of the ‘first. 
Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the grass commences to grow at once, recovering its ver- 
dure 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. 
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. 
Heat and Drought-Resisting. The various kinds of grasses composing this Special Mixture are 
fibrous, deep-rooting varieties that form a tough, matted sod, and are not susceptible to extremes 
-of heat and drought, retaining their verdure even through dry, hot weather. 
Adapted to a Wide Range of Soils and Climate. This Special Mixture of grasses will thrive under 
a great variety of soil and climatic conditions, and in many instances give bountiful returns where 
Timothy can scarcely be grown. 
The Initial Cost is more in seeding with Henderson’s Special Grass Mixture, BUT the ultimate re- 
ferris ate NeEy, profitable when the advantages are considered—including the permanency of a main- 
tained yield. ; 
The Seed Required. The poorer the soil the larger the quantity of seed required. 
soil with another, a fair average would be 3 bushels to the acre. 
sooner will a fine, close turf ‘be obtained. 
Full Directions for Sowing Enclosed in Every Bag. 
PRICES (purchaser paying carriage): $2.50 per bushel of 14 Ibs.; 20=bushel 
Taking one 
The thicker the seeds are sown the 
lots at $2.45; 50 bushels at $2.40 ; 100 bushels at $2.35. 
Mixed Permanent Clovers should be sown in addition to the above grass mixtures, but on account 
i This 
(10 pounds required 
of greater weight the clover should be sown separately, and in cold latitudes, in the spring. 
Mixed Clover comprises White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. 
for one acre. Price, $2.25.) 
Only a few of the many letters of praise 
from stockmen and farmers. We have 
hundreds more of similar purport : 
“I wish you could see my Permanent Grass, it would do your 
heart good. I expect a very big crop. : 
R. P. McGRANN, Grand View Farms, 
Lancaster, Pa. 
“IT am pleased to inform you that the 10-acre field which I 
seeded with your special mixture for Hay and Permanent 
Pasture last year was a great success, and was admired by 
the neighbors for miles around. z 4 
“* I harvested the first crop of hay on June 20th, which ytelded 
at the rate of 54 tons per acre, I harvested a second crop 
on September 1st, which yielded 24 tons per acre, and I could 
have cut a third crop from it, but preferred to pasturc it, and 
at gave good pasture to our stock right up to winter.” 
THOS. BERMINGHAM, Manager for Co!. D. A. Kane, 
“ Paddocks,’’ New Rochelle, N. Y. 
““T have been particularly well pleased with my pastures 
during this exceptionally dry autumn. They were seeded with 
your Permanent Grass Mixtures six and seven years ago, and 
have steadily improved during that time. When ordinary 
astures were bare during the dry weather these gave constant 
eed.” JAS. WOOD, Mount Kisco, N. Y., 
Ex-President New York State Agricultural Society. 
“* Your Special Grass Mixture has done well for me. It 
produced, this season, the largest crop of hay that I ever saw 
cut off the ground, and has been yielding a most excellent 
pasture jor over a month past, and this notwithstanding the 
extraordinary severity of the drought in thts vicinity.” 
R. S. TAYLOR, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
“* T wish to say that about 8 years bee I bomele a large quantity 
of your Mixed Permanent Grass Seed, which has given us 
most splendid crops of hay every year since.” 
E. L. NEWBOLD, Irvine, Pa. 
We also make up Special Grass Mixtures for Renovating 
Old Pastures, Woodland and Orchards, and for any Special 
Requirements or Conditions. Correspondence Invited. 
PASTURE SCENE AT GRAND VIEW PARMS, LANCASTER, PA., WHERE HENDERSON S PERMANENT GRASS MIXTURES ARE USED. 
