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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK— SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES. 



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What Our Customers Say: 



IN MAINE. 



I did not succeed in getting four tons or more 

 per acre \ but I 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. Yielded a crop of hay more than twice as 

 great per acre as the timothy, which I sowed 

 alongside at tlie same time. — R. V. Lindabury. 



IN IOWA. 



Your Grass 3Hxture has done exceedingly well, 

 especially in this year of drought. It yielded 

 about twice as much astimothy, and cattle seemed 

 to do better on it.—V7. Watson. 



IN NEW YORK. 



Your Permanent Mixture is the finest piece of 

 grass anywhere about liere. An old farmer told 

 me last week it icould cut Z% 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. 



— Wm. Simpson & Sons. 



Tlie 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 

 for Hay and Permanent Pasture. He claims this 

 year he cut X tons per acre the first cutting. 1\ 

 tons the second, and will cut 2 tons the third. 

 The field is a grand sight ; people come for miles 

 around to see it— Edward E. Barney. 



IN INDIANA. 



Your Gi-ass Seed produced the largest crop of 

 hay I ever saw, and has yielded a most excellent 

 pasture ever since, notwithstanding the extraor- 

 dinary drought 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. 



Special Grass 

 Mixtures 



FOR MAY AlSn PERKIAHFIST PASTURE. 



WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS 

 WITHOUT RENEWAL. 



Consisting of the following varie- 

 ties : Orchard Grass, Meadow Foxtail, 

 Sheep's Fescue, Rhode Island or 

 Creeping Bent, Hard Fescue, Sweet 

 Scented Vernal (True Perennial), Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass, Italian 

 Rye Grass, Red Top, etc., 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. 



$2.50 per bu. of 14 lbs. 



2.45 " 20-bu. lots. 



2.40 " 50-bu. " 



2.35 " 100-bu. •• 



For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils. 

 " " " " Medium soils, 



" " " " Heavy soils, 



" Orchards and Shady Places 



" Hay only 



" Pasture only, 



" Renovating Old Pastures, 



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. 



OPINIONS OF 

 THE PRESS. 



Country Gentleman says: "Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of 

 finer kinds, and the close, rich turf hid every particle of soil.'' 



American Agriculturist savs : "Such mixtures are far superior to Timothy, 



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 hav per acre should convince any one that more hay ai.d 



better pasture can be grown with mixtures than with Timothy and Clover alone, as under the very same 



conditions the latter yielded less than a ton and a half per acre.'' 



How 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 lbs.; 

 second cutting. 4,320 lb", 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 lbs. per acre. 



EALL SOWING IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL. 



