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HENDERSON'S 

 SPECIAL 



GRASS SEED MIXTURE 



FOR HAY AND 



PERAVANENT PASTURE. 



Produces "Wonderfval Hay Crops and Lvixuriant Pasture, 

 Maintaining' its Cropping' Qualities 20 Years and 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 acchmated foreign grasses and 

 clovers, blended and improved upon during exhaustive trials under widely varied conditions, 

 soils and locaUties 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 j'ield year after year the maximum quantity of hay, and afterwards to afford, 3 

 desired, a constant and abundant pasturage. That we have been successful is attested by the 

 numerous letters 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 encomiums, 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. 



Tlie Yield of Hay tinder favorable conditions averages 3 to 4 tons per acre at the first cutting, 

 and larger >-ields 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 

 verdure in a few days' time and affording a continuous pasturage even through dry summer 

 weather, until mnter sets in; or the field may be pastured from earSest spring and still be in prime 

 condition for jdelding hay or pasture the next season, and so on year after year. 



Permanency. Henderson's Special Grass Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pastiu-e. if proper- 

 ly laid down, "nill maintain its hea\'y cropping qualities twenty years and more if occasionally 

 top-dresseJ 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 ex- 

 tremes of heat and drought, retaining their verdure even through drj', hot weather. 



Adapted to a Wide Bangs of Soils and Climate. ThLs 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 gro^^Ti. 



The Initial Cost Is more in seeding with Henderson's Special Grass Mixture, hut the ulti- 

 mate return': are very profitable when the advantages are considered — including the permanency 

 of a maintained 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. 



J Full Directions for Sowing Enclosed in Every Bag. 



PRICES (ptirchuser pnyinn carriage). $2.50 per bushel Of 14 lbs.; 20-bUShel lots at 



$2,45; 50 bushels at $2.40; 100 bushels at $2.35. 



Only a fe-w of many letters of praise 

 from stocKmen and farmers. We Have 

 Hundreds more of similar purport: 



"/ ain pleased to inform you that the 10-acre field which I 

 seeded with your special mixture for Hay and Permanent 

 Pasture last year was a great success, and was admired by 

 the neighbors for miles around. 



"/ harvested the first crop of hay on June 30th, whidx yielded 

 at the rate of 5i tons per acre. I harvested a second crop 

 on September 1st, which yielded 2^ tons per acre, and I could 

 have cut a third crop from it, but preferred to pasture it, and 

 it gave good pasture to our stock right up to winter." 



THOS. BERMINGHAM, Manager for Col. D. A. Kane, 

 "Paddocks," New Rochelle, N. Y. 



"I have been particularly well pleased with my pastures 

 during this exceptionally dry autumn. They were seeded with 

 your PermanerU Grass Mixtures si-x and seven years ago, and 

 have steadily i?7tproved durintj that time. When ordinary 

 pastures were bare during the dry weather these gave constant 

 feed." JAS. WOOD, Mount Kisco, N. Y., 



Ex-President New York State Agricultural Society. 



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

 produced, tJiis season, the largest crop of hay that I ever saw 

 cut off the ground, and has been yielding a »ws( excellent 

 pasture for over a month past, and this notunthstanding the 

 extraordinary severity of the drought in this vicinity." 



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



"I xvish to say that aboiit S years ago I bought a large quantity 

 of your Mixed Permanent Grass Seed, which has given U8 

 most splendid crops of hay every year since." 



E. L. NEW BOLD, Irvine, Pa. 



Mixed Permanent Clovers should be sown in addition 

 to the above grass mixtures, but, on account of greater weight, 

 the clover should be sown separately, and in cold latitudes, 

 in the spring. The Mixed Clover comprises White, Mam- 

 moth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. (10 pounds are 

 required for one acre. Price, 32.25.) 



WE ALSO Cnarifll HrflCC MivfiifAC inr \ip.nf\\iai\nn OLD PASTURES, WOODLAND AND ORCHARDS, AND FOR ANY 



MAKE UP opetidi urai)b iTiixiurea lor iveiiUYaiing requirements or conditions, correspondence invited. 



