HAYING SCENK AT GRAND VIEW FARMS, LANCASTER, PA., WHERE HENDERSON'S PERMANENT GRASS MIXTURES ARE USED. 
HENDERSON’S 
SPECIAL 
GRASS SEED MIXTURE PERMANENT PASTURE, 
It Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Luxuriant Pasture. 
Maintaining Its Cropping Qualities 20 Years or More. 
T ins famous mixture has seeded thousands of acres of rneadow and pasture land for progressive 
fariners and stock raisers in various parts of the United States, with most gratifying results. 
It is a well-lialanced 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 iierfect, 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, ancl afterwarils to afford, if 
desired, a constant and abundant pasturage. That we have been successful is attested by the numer- 
ou.s letters of ))raise for this sjiecial gras.s mixture that we liave 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 those encomiums, and we refer you, for the complete description of Henderson’s Special 
Grass Mixture for Ilay and Permanent Pa.stures, to our “Farmer’s Manual,mailed on application. 
The Yield of Hay under favorable comlitions 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 tlie 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 tlirough 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 Gra.ss Mixture for Hay and Permanent Pasture, if properly 
laid down, will maintain its heavy cropping qualities twenty years and more if occasionally top-dressed 
w’ith 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 dry, hot weather. 
Adapted to a Wide Range of Soils and Climate. Thi.s Special Mixture of grasses will thrive 
under a great variety of soil and climatic conditions, and in many instances give bountiful returns where 
Timotliy can scarcely be grown. 
The Initial Cost is more in seeding with Henderson’s Special Grass Mixture, but the ultimate 
return.s 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 bo obtained. 
Full jyirectioyis for Sowitig enclosed in every hag. 
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 mixture.s, but on 
account of greater weight the clover shouhi be sown separately, and in cold latitudes, in the spring. 
This Mixed (’lover comprises White. Mammoth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. (10 pounds required 
for one acre. Price. S2.50.) 
Only a few of the many letters of praise from 
stockmen and farmers. We have hundreds 
more of similar purport: 
“/ wish you could see my Permanent Grass; it would do 
your heart pood. I expect a very big crop,” 
R. P. McGRANNy Grand View Farms, J^ncaster, Pa. 
“/ cut 80 one-horse loads of well-cured hay from the 
Grass Mixture, estimated at one-half ton per load. I am 
well pleased with theresult and nm satisfied I got much more 
than I would from any one kind of grass.” 
GUY SMITH, 71 Clinton St., Boston, Mass. 
“ / 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 yielded 2it tons per acre, and 
I could have cut a third crop from it, but preferred to pasture 
U, and it gave good pasture to our stock ru]hi up to winter." 
THOS. BERSIINGHA M, Manager for Col. D. A. Kane, 
” Paddocks,” New Rochelle, N. Y. 
“7 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 dry weather these 
gave constant feed.” JAS. WOOD, Mount Kisco, N. F., 
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 ificlding a most excellent 
pasture ^err over a month jmst, and this nolwilhstunding the 
extraordinary severity of the drought in this vicinity.” 
R. S. TAYLOR, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
“7 wish to say that about 8 years ago I bought a large 
qiiaMily of your Mixed Permanent Grass Seed, which has 
given us most splendid crops of hay every year since.” 
E. L. NEWBOLD, Irvine, Pa. 
We also make up Special Grass Mixtures for Renovating Old 
Pastures, Woodland and Orchards, and for any Special Require* 
ments or Conditions. Correspondence Invited. 
pasture scene at grand view farms, LANCASTER, PA., WHERE HENDERSON’S PERMANENT GRASS MIXTURES ARE USED. 
