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



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IJENDLRSON'S SPtGlflL GRASS MIXTURES 



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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY: 



IN iVIAINE. 



/ 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 season. 

 Yielded a crop of hay more than twice as great 

 per acre as the timothy, which I sowed alongside 

 at the same time. — E. V. Lisdabuet. 

 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 seemed 

 to do belter on it. — ^W. Watson. 

 IN NEW YORK. 

 Tour Permanent Mixture is the finest piece of 

 grass anywhere about here. An old farmer told 

 me last week it would cut 3>2 tons to the acre 

 sure. — J. M. Richards. 



IN VERMONT. 

 Tour Grass Seeds are easily the best of any in 

 the market. — F. C. Kimball. 



IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

 The Permanent Pasture Grass was a perfect 

 success. Wenever had such a good yielti of grass. 

 We mowed our meadows twice. 



— Wm. Simpson & Sons. 

 The green appearance of the field attracted 

 universal attention. It has far surpassed clover 

 and timothy in the amount it yields. 



— J. B. Cdmiungs. 

 IN VIRGINIA. 

 My manager is enthusiastic over your mixture 

 for May and Permanent Pasture. He claims 

 this year he cut 3 tons per acre the first cutting, 

 1?^ tons the second, and will cut 2 Urns the third. 

 The f eld is a grand sight; people come for miles 

 around to see it. — Edwakd E. Babney. 

 IN INDIANA. 

 Tour Grass Seed produced the largest crop of 

 hay I ever saw, and has yielded a viost excellent 

 pasture ever since, notwithstanding the extraor- 

 dinary drovXh in this vicinity. — K. S. Taylob. 

 IN OHIO. 

 The Special Grass Mixture has given us the very 

 best of satisfaction ; it produced thef nest piece of 

 grass lever saw and has given us a large amount 

 of hay and pasture per acre. — W. J. Hates. 



. . WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT RENEWAL. . . 



Consisting of the following varieties : 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 "Ho-w the 

 Farm Pays," blended in proportions which, we have found from actual 

 use, give the most satisfactory results. 



On ordinary fertile soil 3 bushels of this mixture is sufficient to seed an acre, 

 but whei-g the land is poor a larger quantity will be necessary. Taking one 

 soil with another a fair average would be 3 iDushels to the acre. 



For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils, . 

 " " " " Medium soils, 



" " " " Heavy soils, . 



" Orchards and Shady Places, 



" Hay only, _ 



" Pasture only, 



" Renovating Old Pastures, 



$2.50 per bushel of 14 lbs. 



20=bush. lots, $2.45 per bush. 



SO " 2.40 " 



100 « 2.35 " 



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 

 10 lbs. 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. 



Conntry Gentleman says ; "Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of 

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



American Agricnltarist says : " 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 hay per acre should convince any one that more hay and better 

 pasture can be grown with mixtures than witli Timothy and Clover alone, as 

 under the very same conditions the latter yielded less than a ton and a half 

 per acre." 



How the Tarm 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 lbs. per acre) a total of 10,208 LBS. CURED HAY PER ACRE, while Timothy growing 

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



FALL SOWING IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL. 



