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



FARM SEEDS 



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What Our Customers Say: 



IN MAINE. 



/ did not aticceed in (jetting four tons or more 

 2>eracre, but I did get more than from anything 

 else, ana it is splendid hay. — G. M. Holmes. 



IN NEW JERSEY. 



The Special Grass Mixtures have been 7nost 

 successful, in spite of an unusually trying sea- 

 son. Yielded a crop of hay moj'e than ttcice as 

 great per acre as the' timothy, which I sowed 

 alongside at the same time. — R. V. Lixdabury. 

 IN IOWA. 



Your Grass Mixture has done exceedingly well, 

 especially in this year of drought. It yielded 

 about ticice as much as timothy, and cattle seemed 

 to do better on if.— W. Watson. 



IN NEW YORK. 



Your Permanent Mixture is the finest piece of 

 grass anywhere aliout here. An old farmer told 

 me last week it would cut 3H 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 icas a perfect 

 success. TCe never had such a good yield of 

 grass. We mowed our meadows twice. 



— Wm. Simpson & Sons. 



The green appearance of the Jield attracted 

 universal attention. It has far surpassed clover 

 and timothy in the amount it yields. 



—J. B. CCMMIXGS. 



IN VIRGINIA. 



My manager is enthusiastic over your mixture 

 for Hay and Permanent Pasture. lie claims this 

 year lie cut ;Mona 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 i(.— Edwaud E. Barney. 



IN INDIANA. 



your Grass Seed jimdurrd the largest crop of 

 hay lever saw, and has yielded a most excellent 

 pasture ever since, notwithstanding tite extraor- 

 dinary drought in this vicinity.— YL S. Taylor. 

 IN OHIO. 



The Special Grass Mixture has given us the ivry 

 best of satisfaction ; it produced the finest piece 

 of grass I ever saw and has given us a large 

 amount of hay and imst ure per acre 



— w. 3. Haves. 



Special Grass 

 Mixtures 



FOR HAY AA'O PBR]\IA:SE:ST I'ASTURB. 



WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS 

 WITHOUT RENEWAL. 



Consisting of tlie following varie- 

 ties : Orchard Orass, Meadow Foxtail, 

 Sheep's Fescue, Rhode Island of 

 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. 



For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils, 

 " " " " Medium soils, 



" " " " Heavy soils. 



" Orchards and Shady Places 



" Hay only ( S.40 - 50-bu. 



" 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 bo sown in the spring, as 

 thej' are rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 



S2.50 per bu. of 14 lbs. 

 2.45 ■■ 20-bu. lots. 



2.35 



100-bu. 



OPINIONS OF 

 THE PRESS. 



roDn(i7 Rrnilnnan snyji: "Below the tnlUr trra.«ses was a thick mat of 

 liner- kinils. htuI thi- <i6se. rich turf hill every i>article of soil." 



tmrriran Asrlriiituri»i sMVs i "Such mixtures are far superior to Timothy, 



or Tiinothv uiul Clover.' or auy one pra.'W. ooptinsr but a little more. 



la.'itini; much longer, nnd prlvinK fre<iuently more than double the yield." 



Farm and Homp Siivs "The enormous yield of nearly four and oni^halt 



tons of (tooil hay per acre should ronvinee any one that mort' hay and 



better pasture can be (irrown 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 aor\'. * 



How lie Farm Pajs 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 i first cutting. 5.888 lbs.: 

 second cutting. 4.320 /6s. per acre) a total of 10.2 08 LBS. CURED 

 HAY PER ACRE, while Timoihy growing alongside under same con- 



ditions yielded only one cutting of 2,400 lbs. per acre. 



FALL SOWINO IS THE MOST SUCCESSFIU 



