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HENDERSON’S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES 
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY : 
IN MAINE. 
I did not gurnard in getting four tons or more 
prr acre, l>ut / did get more than from anything 
else, and it is splendid hag. — G. M. Holmes. 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
The Special Grass Mixtures have been most 
successful, in spite of an unusual t g trying season. 
Yielded a crop of hay more than twice as great 
per acre as the timothy, which 1 sowed alongside 
at the same time. —It. V. Einpaijury. 
IN IOWA. 
Your Grass Mixture has done exceedingly 
well, especially in th is year of drouth. It yielded 
about twice, as much astimothy, and cattle seemed 
to do belter 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. Rich a kps. 
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. 
W’e mowed our meadows twice. 
—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. Me claims 
this year he cut 3 tons per acre the first cutting, 
j 1 3 -i tons the second, anil wilt cut 2 tons the third. 
! The field is a grand sight; people come for miles 
■ around to see it.—E dward 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, notwithstanding the extraor- 
‘ dinary drouth in this vicinity.— It. S. Taylor. 
IN OHIO. 
The Special Grass Mixture has given us the 
| very best of satisfaction ; it produced the finest 
! piece of grass / ever sa w and has given us a large 
amount of hay and pasture per acre. 
—W. J. Hayes. 
•We are headquarters for all kinds of 
RECLEANED GRASS SEEDS, 
And have made the subject of Hay and Pasture a 
s|H’jMal study. We invito correspondence, and 
will advise the best, grasses to use, and make up 
special mixtures where necessary. 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 
WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT RENEWAL. 
Consisting of the following varieties: Orchard Grass, Meadow Foxtail, Sheep’s Fescue, 
Rhode Island or Creeping Bent, Hard Fescue, Sweet Scented Vernal (True Perennial),' 
Meadow Fescue, English Rye Grass, Italian Rye Grass, Red Top, etc., as recommended in 
our book, “ How tlie Karin Pays,” blended in proportions which, we have found from 
actual use, give the most satisfactory results. 
On ordinary fertile soil 3 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 3 bushels to the acre. 
For Hay and Permanent Pasture for Light soils.' 
“ “ “ “ Medium soils. • 
“ “ “ “ Heavy soils.. • 
“ Orchards and Shady Places. • 
“ Hay only. Specially recommended for large hay crop 
“ Pasture only, Will stand close cropping without 
injury... 
$2.50 per bushel of 14 lbs, 
20 bushel lots, $2.45 per bushel. 
50 “ 2.40 
100 “ 2,35 “ 
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 10 lbs. of Mixed Clovers, com¬ 
prising White, Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, Trefoil, etc., but these should only 
bo sown in the spring, as they are rather tender in this latitude if sown in the fall. 3 
The quantity needed (10 lbs.) of MIXED CLOVERS to sow 
an acre we will sell for $2.00. 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
Country Gentleman says: “ Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of finer kinds, and the close rich turf 
hid every particle of soil." ’ 
American Agriculturist says : •• Such mixtures are far superior to Timothy, or ■ Timothy and Clover ’ or anv 
one grass, costing but a little more, lastiug much longer, and giving frequently more than double the yield.” ’ 1 
Parm and Home says : " The enormous yield of nearly four and one-half tons of good hay per acre should con 
vince any one that more hay and better pasture can he growu 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 the Parm Pays says : “ Par 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 10,208 LBS. CURED HAY PER ACRE, while Timothy growing alongside under 
same conditions yielded only one cutting of 2,400 lbs. per acre. 
At first sight $7.50 to $10.00 per acre appears to be a high price for the seeding of a pasture, 
but beat in mind that it is a permanent pasture that we have in view, and nowhere can a per¬ 
manent pasture be laid down properly for a less original outlay than that we name. 
Full Directions for Sowing enclosed in every Lag, 
