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



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onderson's 



What Our Customers Say; 



IN MAINE. 



1'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 the same time. — R. V. Lindabury. 



IN IOWA. 



Tour Grass Mixture has done exceedingly welt, 

 especially in this year of drought. It yielded 

 about twice as much as timothy, and cattle seemed 

 to do better on it.— W. Watson. 



IN NEW YORK. 



Your Permanent Mixture is the finest piece of 

 grass anywhere about here. An old farmer told 

 me last week it would cut 3% 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 meadoics tirice. 



-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. CUMMINGS. 



IN VIRGINIA. 



My manager is enthusiastic over your mixture 

 for Hay and Permanent Pasture. He claims this 

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

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

 The field is a grand sight ; people come for miles 

 around to see rt.— Edward E. Barney. 



IN INDIANA. 



Your Grass Seed produced the largest crop of 

 hay I ever saw. and has yielded a most excellent 

 pasture ever since, rwtwithntanding the extraor- 

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



IN OHIO. 



The Special Grass Mixture has given us the very 

 best of satisfaction , it produced the finest i>irrr 

 of grass I ever saw and has given us a large 

 amount of hay and past ure per acre. 



—W.J. Hayek 



Special Grass 

 Mixtures 



FOR HAY AAD PERMANENT 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 

 ScentedVernal (True Perennial), Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass, Italian 

 Rye Grass, Red Top, etc., as recommended in our book "HOW THE FARM 

 PATS," 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, 



" Pasture only 



" Renovating Old Pastures 



$2.50 per bu. of 14 lbs. 

 2 45 " 20-bu. lots. 



2.40 " 50-bu. - 



2.35 " 100-bu. " 



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 Peren- 

 nial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc., but these should only be sown ill 

 the spring, as they are rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 



OPINIONS OF 

 THE PRESS. 



Country Grntlrman savs : "Below the taller grasses was a thick mnl of 



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



tmrtlran AsrlrnllurM - i\ s. " Such mixture s HI. Car superior to Timothy. 



or 'Timothy and Clover,' or any one grass, costing out a little more, 

 lasting much longer, and giving frequently more than double the > [eld ' 

 Firm and Home says : " The enormous yield of nearly four and one-half 

 tons of good hay per acre should convince anyone that more hay and 

 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 Hi.- Farm P«ji says i " 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 1 0,208 L B S. CURED 

 HAY PER ACRE, while Timothy growing alongside under samt con- 

 ditions yielded only one cutting of 2.400 lbs. per acre. 



FALL SOWING IS THK MOST SUCCESSFUL. 



