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FARM SEEDS 
HENDERSON’S 
s pecial Qrass fixture 
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 practi¬ 
cally 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 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-half 
the quantity of the first. 
Pasturage. After the hay crop is cut the grass 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 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 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, hut 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 
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. 
ONLY A FEW OF MANY LETTERS OF PRAISE FROM 
STOCKMEN AND FARMERS. WE HAVE HUN¬ 
DREDS MORE OF SIMILAR PURPORT: 
“The growth is simply wonderful, and do not think there is 
any other grass to equal it for hay or pasture. I sowed about 
ten acres, from which I have cut what I consider the best hay 
ever made on my farms.” J. S. LONG, Pa. 
“The Grass seed sent me turned out well. It makes a good 
(mass for meadow or for grazing. It is fine, close grass and 
the cattle like it.” PAUL A. OLIVER , Pa. 
“It’s the finest piece of grass anywhere about here. An 
old farmer told me last week it would cut Si tons to the acre 
sure.” JAMES M. RICHARDS, N. Y. 
“The Grass Mixture I got of you has done extra well, es¬ 
pecially this year of drought. It stood the drought and 
yielded about twice as much as Timothy, and the cattle seem 
to do better on it.” WILLARD WATSON, Iowa. 
“This is the third year and there was a heavy crop cut on 
it two weeks before Timothy was ready, and, much to my sur¬ 
prise, there was quite a good second crop in spite of the very 
dry season .” II. L. PARK, Mass. 
"We mowed a very good crop the 20th of June, and in two 
weeks had good pasture— the best in the township, and very 
good now, and much admired by the neighboring farmers. Our 
Timothy meadow is nearly all killed or dried up, no pasture. 
But the Special Grass Mixture is now very nice and green.” 
E. W. BRUEN, N. J. 
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. The Mixed Clover comprises White, Mam¬ 
moth Perennial or Cow Grass, Alsike, etc. (10 pounds are 
required for one acre. Price, $2.25.) 
For Hay and Permanent Pasture 
Produces Wonderful Hay Crops and Luxuriant Pasture, 
Maintaining its Cropping Qualities 20 Years and More. 
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FARMS, N. Y. 
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