FARM SEEDS 
H ENDERSON’S 
SPECIAL 
GRASS SEED MIXTURE ^PERMANENT PASTURE. 
Produces "Wonderful Hay Crops and Luxuriant Pasture, 
Maintaining' its Cropping' Qualities 20 Years and 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 
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 
prmt. 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-haLf 
the quantity of the first. 
Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the gnuss commences to grow at once, recovering its 
verdure 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 lor 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 proper¬ 
ly 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 ex¬ 
tremes of heat and drought, retaining their verdure even through dry, 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 ulti¬ 
mate returns 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 
sow n 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; 60 bushels at $2.40; 100 bushels at $2.35. 
Only a few of many letters of praise 
from stockmen and farmers. 'We Have 
hundreds more of similar purport: 
11 1 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 5h 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. BERM1NGHAM, Manager for Col. D. A. Kane , 
11 Paddocks,’ 9 New Rochelle, N. Y. 
“/ have been particularly well pleased with my pastures 
during this exceptionally dry autumn. They^ were seeded with 
your Permanent Grass Mixtures six and seven years ago, and 
have steadily improved during that time. When ordinary 
pastures were bare during the di y 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, 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 i?i this vicinity." 
R. S. TAY LOR, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
“J wish to say that about 8 years ago I bought a large quantity 
of . your M ixed Permanent Grass Seed, which has given us 
inost splendid crops of hay every year since." 
E. L. NEWBOLD, Irvine, Pa. 
Mixed Permanent Clovers should be sown in addition 
to the above grass mixtures, but, on accountof 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, $2.25.) 
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