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HENDERSON'S 

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HAYING SCENE AT BRIAR CLIFF FARMS WHERE HENDERSONS PERMANENT GRASS MIXTURES ARE USED. 



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GRASS SEED MIXTURE p^T^L 



It Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Luxuriant Pasture, 

 Maintaining Its Cropping Qualities Twenty Years or More. 



THIS 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. 

 It 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 numerous let- 

 ters 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 extracts 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 application. 



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- 

 turns are very 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. Taking one 

 soil with another, a fair average would be 3 bushels to the acre. The thicker the seeds are sown the 

 sooner will a fine, close turf be obtained. 



Full Directions for Sowing Enclosed in Every Bag. 



PRICES (purchaser paying carnage): $2.75 per bushel of 14 lbs.; 50 bushels at $2 65; 

 100 bushels at $2.60. 



Mixed Permanent Clovers should be sown in addition to the above grass mixture, but on account 

 of greater weight the clover should be sown separately, and in cold latitudes, in the spring This 

 Mixed Clover comprises White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. (10 pounds required 

 for one acre. Price, $3-50.) 



Only a few of the many letters of praise from stockmen 

 and farmers. We have hundreds more of similar purport : 



"The grass seed mixture I got from you last spring made a good 



>d and is admired h\° farmers here. It is all you claimed for 



somr think t' e price is high hut I /•■// them, 'I did not buy 



weeds to seed my land.' " M. RILEY , ML Savage, Md. 



" It may interest you to hear as it is a pleasure to me to he 

 able to inform you that from the Permanent Pasture Grass SeeU 

 purchased from you six years ago, I have just harvested the 

 tenth crop of most satisfactory hay. This makes two good 

 crops for each of the five years after sowing. The remarks 

 ' What a beautiful field it is ' and ' It looks like a lawn ' dr.- 

 often made and they please me greatly." 



GEORGE MOORE, Fanwood, N. J 



"■ I am pleased to report that your Special Grass Mixture 

 for Hay and Pasture sowed by me three years ago on an eight 

 acre field, has surpassed my expectations." 



ARNOLD C. SAPORTAS, Pocantico Hills, N. Y. 



11 / sowed 2 acres with your Permanent Pasture mixture and 

 am delighted with the quality. It was a very dry summer to 

 start with and if it had been Timothy would have been obliged 

 to reseed. but it filled out a fine sod; cut a second crop when 

 Timothy cuts none." W. E. HARRIS, 



East Douglass, Mass. 



" I desire to advise you that I am changing all my fields from 

 Timothy to your Permanent Grass Seed as I find the latter to 

 be entirely sa.isfaclory. My horses and cattle relish it very 

 much more and my crops have been considerably increased." 



W. D. HENRY, Irvington Farm, Sewickley, Pa. 



" Your Special Grass Mixture has done well for me. It 

 produced this season, the largest crop of hay thai I ever saw 

 cut off the ground, and has been yielding a most excellent 

 pasture for over a month past, and this notwithstanding the 

 extraordinary severity of the drought in this vicinity." 



R. S. TA YLOR, Fort Wayne. Ind. 



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 FARMS. LANCASTER. PA.. WHERE HENDERSON'S PERMANENT GRASS MIXTURES ARE USED. 



