HENDERSON'S 



Northern Grown Alfalfa Seed 



ALFALFA, or LUCERNE. {Medicago saliva.) A Clover-like leguminous plant of 

 great importance as a hay and forage crop, nutritious and rich in protein elements. 

 It grows 2 to 5 feet high and sends roots, 5, 10, 20, and sometimeslSO feet into the 

 subsoil. It needs one season to become established, after which it jaelds enormous 

 crops annually for many years. 3 or 4 cuttings per season, "aggregating 4 to 6 tons 

 cured hay per acre, are harvested, according to conditions and locality. It does 

 well on all good rich soils (except heavy clay), if well drained, or overlj-ing a perme- 

 able subsoil; on calcareous soil it thrives especially well. Our strain of Alfalfa 

 Seed is grown in far Northern regions, where plants have to endure extreme cold 

 and still thrive in those high altitudes. Our experience — and that of our customers 

 — has shown that such seed is undoubtedly the best for the North and Eastern 

 States, and that it excels all others in hardiness. Before offering this seed to our 

 customers for sale, it is thoroughly recleanedby the most modem~seed-cleaning 

 machinery in America. These are not ordinary fanning mills, but machines wit'i 

 an even and strong air suction — equal at all points — which is quite a different thing 

 from a blast. By this process we are enabled to separate the sound, perfect seeds 

 from all rubbish and light, imperfect seeds. Sow in the Northern States during 

 June, July or August, 30 to 40 lbs. of seed per acre if broadcasted, 25 or to 30 lbs. 

 if drilled. In the South sow in February- or September. Price, Henderson's 

 Superior Recleaned Alfalfa Seed, 40c. per lb.; $21.75 per bushel of 60 lbs.; $35.00 

 per 100 lbs. 



"That Alfalfa I bought of you is more than a success, it is a wonder to all the farmers 

 around here. No rain here for eight-weeks, yet it is growing fine while around the fields 

 are all dried tip." THOMAS S. OSBORN.'AmaganseU, L. I. 



"Last August I bought seed from you to sow about '/a cf an acre to Alfalfa. Had good 

 success-with it; having had a very good .st.cnd__and liow want to sow a piece of land about 

 100 //. X .500 //." OLIVER LAWRENCE, 917. Kline Street, Springfield, III. 



"Planted four acres with Alfalfa seed purchased of you last August and have an excellent 

 stand. Does not seem to have been hurt to any extent by the winter."- ' - ' 



E. TURNER, Chester Springs, Pa. 



Full cultural instructions will be found in our new 

 Booklet "ALFALFA ON NORTHERN FARMS" sent 

 free to all applicants. 



Grimm Alfalfa Seed 



The Hardiest Alfalfa Known 



"The Country Gentleman" of March lo, IQIJ, says: "According to the records, 

 Grimm alfalfa was introduced- into Carver country. Minnesota, in 1857, by 

 Wendelin Grimm, an immigrant from Baden, Germany. He brought with him 

 fifteen or twenty pounds of alfalfa seed, and sowed it- in the spring of 1838. Just 

 how well this first seeding of the "ewiger Klee" — everlasting clover — as he called 

 it, succeeded is not definitely known, but at least enough of the plants survived to 

 furnish seed -for future so-svings, and in 1867, 480 pounds were threshed from three 

 acres." 



The attention of the Minnesota experiment station was called to this alfalfa in 1901, 

 and by careful experimentation Grimsi alfalfa was found to be far superior to common 

 kinds in -with standing unfavorable winters. This strain of alfalfa seed not only endures 

 extremely low temperature, but it can be cut with greater safety in the fall, and -will 

 bear more ab'ase in the way of pasturage than any other for-age plant. Grimm 

 Alfalfa has larger crowns, and a more- spreading root system than the ordinary Alfalfa. 

 It is also claimed that it will yield from ten to fifteen per cent more than any other 

 variety, and -will start and thrive- in undrained wet locations, where the ordinary sort 

 was tried unsuccessfully. One of the characteristics of _ the Grimm Alfalfa is that 

 some of the plants produce peculiar greenish-yellow flowers. The seed is high priced, 

 and it is rather hard to get the genuine article. 



We offer our stock at the following prices, as long as unsold. Price^ 90c. per lb.; 

 $50.00 per bushel; 530.00 per 100 lbs. : . 



U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE SAYS: 



f'lN ADDITION TO THE HAY CROP, ALFALFA IN TWO YEARS ADDS $100 TO THE VALUE OF EVERY ACRE ON WHICH IT GROWS.'? 



