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The Discovery of a Hardy Alfalfa 
Called Grimm 
I T WAS back in 1890 when Mr. Lyman 
was teaching school about 10 miles west of 
his home in Carver County that he first 
ran across alfalfa, or everlasting clover. 
Impressed by the character and quality of this 
hay he took a sample home to his father. The 
result was that they purchased 30 pounds of 
ordinary alfalfa seed in Minneapolis, and seeded 
two acres in barlej' and had a good stand, the 
next summer. The 3 ’^ cut three heavy crops of 
hay and there was quite another crop that the}' 
did not harvest. But in the spring they found 
all the alfalfa was dead — had winterkilled. 
This would have ended the alfalfa for Mr. 
Lyman had he not chanced to find the German 
farmers still had a perfect stand and that they 
had suffered no loss. 
Upon inquiiy it developed that these success- 
ful alfalfa growers were obtaining their seed from 
an old German named Grimm who had brought about 20 pounds of seed over 
from German}'. It seems that even old Grimm had had his struggles with 
alfalfa winterkilling. But he had a hardy seed to begin with, and he patiently 
persisted and saved the seed from the plants that survived. Gradually what 
he developed over a period of years has come to be known as GRIMM AL- 
FALFA. 
Since 1890 Mr. Lyman has taken this Grimm Alfalfa and has during the 
past eighteen years continued old Grimm’s process of developing the seed 
from the hardiest plants until now his confidence in Lyman’s Grimm Alfalfa seed 
is backed by a guarantee in writing as to the genuineness of the seed, and a 
standing offer to take back and refund on any of his seed found to contain 
dodder, quack grass, Canadian Thistles or Sow Thistles. For Mr. Lyman 
knows his seed is 99% and over — pure — and is prepared to stand behind it. 
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