July 13th. 1918. 
Mr. A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 
Most of the farms in Duchess County, New York, 
are heavy, springy and somewhat sour, with hard 
elay or shale bottom. For four years we tried ordinary 
alfalfa seed, liming and fertilizing with a zeal and de- 
termination to raise alfalfa at any cost, and had 
four succe.ssive failures. Wo reluctantly paid A. B. 
layman $39.00 for a bushel of Grimm seed, but we 
had the satisfaction of seeing the alfalfa coming 
thru the second winter heavier and better than the 
first cutting. We this season sowed our second 
field and have the prospect of a certainty for a much 
evener crop than our first experiment. There is no 
question that for land such as we arc farming, the 
only hope of getting alfalfa is in sowing Grimm seed. 
JAMES RISK CO., INC. 
346 Broadway, 
New York City. 
Sunnyside, Wash., June 24th, 1917. 
Mr. A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 
Dear Sir: Last year I got two shipments of your 
Grimm seed. The three acres produced three cuttings 
last year, 12 tons of cured hay in all. My neighbor 
seeded an adjoining field with common alfalfa at the 
same time and this spring had to reseed owing to 
winterkilling. I do not think I lost a plant. To 
say that I am pleased with your seed is putting it 
too mildly. I have got them all “skinned” about a 
ton to the acre, so I can’t kick. 
Respectfully, 
E. S. McCULLOH. 
August 12th, 1918. 
Mr. A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 
About five years ago I bought 30 pounds of your 
Grimm seed. When I seeded it, I did not have enough 
so I went to Hutchinson to look for your seed, but 
I failed to find any. One store-keeper said, “I have 
some that I think is better and cheaper. I have 
Dakota alfalfa which is more hardy.” So I bought 30 
pounds — seeded it at the same time with your Grimm. 
The next Spring the Dakota was almost all gone 
and dead. Eight years ago I seeded some Montana 
alfalfa — four years ago I sowed what they call Lis- 
comb, and this last Spring all was dead except the 
Grimm. 
My advise is to sow nothing but Grimm and I 
would not farm without alfalfa. 
JOHN OLIVER. 
R. 1, Hutchinson. Minn. 
.\ugusta, Wis., .-Vugust 21st, 1916. 
Mr. A. B. Lyman, 
Excelsior, Minn. 
Dear Mr. Lyman: My Grimm Alfalfa was seeded 
on June 1, 1915, without a nurse crop, on a light sandy 
soil. A piece of about two acres was prepared and 
inoculated with soil taken from an old alfalfa field. 
Half of this field was seeded in with Grimm and other 
half was seeded in with a hardy Montana alfalfa. 
Special care being taken that both seeds should be 
grown under identic.al conditions Both fields showe<l 
good stands in the fall, the Grimm being somewhat 
finer and not as coarse as the Montana. After a 
hard winter (the ground covered W’ith ice much of the 
time because of the widwinter rains), we hardly hoped 
to see any of the alfalfa in the spring. The Grimm 
came up with a good stand and the hardy (?) Montana 
was entirely winterkilled. At the first cutting this 
year the Grimm was a very satisfactory stand. 
Yours truly, 
E. P. ASAL, 
Cashier Peoples State Bank. 
July 22nd, 1918. 
Mr. A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 
I wish to say that I have been using your Grimm 
seed for three years past (this being my fourth year 
with it), and I have noticed a great difference in the 
vitality of it, as compared with the common variety 
which I used previously. With the common seed, I 
had trouble with heaving, as our unprotected ground 
here in most winters is very hard on the plants, and 
I have had plants heave until six to eight inches of 
roots were exposed, naturally killing out the plants. 
With the Grimm I have never seen any of this, and 
even after the past winter, which w’as the worst in 
over forty years in the vicinity, the plants came 
through in perfect condition, and we cut a first crop 
early in June standing over two and a half feet high, 
and now it is over two feet and ready to cut again . 
We always get three good crops, and have about a 
foot left to cover the ground during the winter. 
CHARLES E PRESCOTT. Supt., 
Meadow Farm. 
Hartsdale, N. Y. 
March 29th, 1918. 
Mr. A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 
Inclosed you will find two photos of my alfalfa 
field last summer. This was grown from the seetl 
I bought of you. Photos taken about July 1st, 1917 
FRED S. BLANCHARD. 
Cumberland Center, Maine 
The above picture was taken from the top of a mound on the County Farm at Vernon County, Viroqua, Wiscon- 
sin, and shows the second cutting of Lyman's Grimm alfalfa that grew in 27 days. This field is four years 
old and withstood the winter in 1915 when other alfalfas and common clover were killed. 
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