...Special... • GRASS SEED MIXTURE Permanent Pasture. 
It Produces Wonderful 
Hay Crops and Luxuriant 
Pasture, Maintaining Its Cropping Qualities 20 Years or More. 
T HIS 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 acclimated foreign grasses and 
clovers, blended and improved upon during exhaustive trials under widely varied conditions, 
soils and localities 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 yield year after year the maximum quantity of hay, and afterwards to afford, if 
desired, a constant and abundant pasturage. That we have been successful is attested by the numer¬ 
ous 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. 
The Yield of Hay under favorable conditions averages 3 to 4 tons per acre at the first cutting, 
and larger yields are not unusual; then, if not pastured, the second crop is usually about one-lialf the 
quantity of the first. 
Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the grass commences to grow at once, recovering its ver¬ 
dure in a few days’ time and affording a continuous pasturage even through dry summer weather, 
until winter sets in; or the field may be pastured from earliest spring and still be in prime condition 
for yielding hay or pasture the next season, and so on year after year. 
Permanency. Henderson’s Special Grass Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pasture, if properly 
laid down, will maintain its heavy cropping qualities twenty years and more if occasionally top-dressed 
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 extremes of 
heat and drought, retaining their verdure even through drv, hot weather. 
Adapted to a Wide Range of Soils and Climate. This 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 grown. 
The Initial Cost is more in seeding with Henderson’s Special Grass Mixture, but the ultimate 
returns .are very profitable when the advantages are considered — including the permanency of a main¬ 
tained 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. Full Directions for Sowing enclosed in every bag. 
PRICES (purchaser paying carriage): $2.50 per bushel of 14 lbs.; 20-bushel 
lots at $2.45; 50 bushels at $2.40; 100 bushels at $2.35. 
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. This 
Mixed Clover comprises White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. (10 pounds required 
for one acre. Price, $2.50.) 
A few of many letters praising Henderson's Special 
Crass Seed Mixture: 
“/ wish you could see my Permanent Grass; it would do 
your heart good. I expect a very big crop." 
R. P. McGRANN, Grand View Farms, Lancaster, Pa. 
"I sowed 2 acres with your Permanent Pasture mixture 
and am delighted with the quality. It was a very dry 
summer to start with aud if it had been timothy '<would 
have been obliged to reseed, but it filled out a fine sod: cut 
a second crop when timothy cuts none." 
IV. E. HARRIS, East Douglas, Mass. 
"It may interest you to hear as it is a pleasure to me to 
be able to inform you that from the Permanent Pasture 
Grass Seed purchased from you six years ago, I have just 
harvested the tenth crop of most satisfactory hay. 'Phis 
makes two good crops for each of the five years after solving. 
The remarks, 'What a beautiful field it is’ and 'It looks 
like a lawn’ are often made aud they please me greatly." 
GEORGE MOORE, Fanwood, N. J . 
"I solved one acre two years ago with your Permanent 
Pasture mixture, the result being a surprise. It is pro¬ 
ducing very exceptional crops and remains green until late 
in the fall." 
PI. A. L. KING, Morristozun, Ohio. 
“ I am 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 20th, which 
yielded at the rate of 5\ tons per acre. I harvested a second 
crop on September 1st, which -ynelded 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. BIRMINGHAM, Manager for Col. D. A. Kane 
"Paddocks," hew Rochelle, N. Y. 
“ Your Special Grass Mixture has done well for me. It 
produced, this season, the largest crop of hay that I ever saw 
cut off the ground, and has been yielding a most excellent 
pasture for over a month past, and this notwithstanding the 
extraordinary severity of the drought in this vicinity." 
R. S. TA YLOR, Fort Wayme, Did. 
We also make up Special Grass Mixtures for Renovating Old Pastures, Woodland and Orchards, and for any Special Requirements or Conditions. Correspondence Invited. 
