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HENDERSON’S 
SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURE 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE. 
HENDERSON’S SPECIAL GRASS MIXTURES 
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY: 
IN MAINE. 
I iliil not succeed in getting four ton* or more per 
acre, hut I did get more than fCQJJi anything else, and 
it is splendid hay.—(i. M. HOLMES. 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
The Special Grass Mixtures have been most success¬ 
ful, in spite of an unusually trying season. Yielded 
a crop of hay more than twice as great per acre as 
the timothy, which I sowed alongside at the same 
time.— R. V. Lindabury. 
IN IOWA. 
Your Grass Mixture has done exceedingly well, 
especially in this year of drouth. It yielded about 
twice us much as timothy, and cattle seemed to do 
better on it. —W. WATHON. 
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 <¥*’is tons to the acre sure. 
— J. M. Richards. 
IN VERMONT. 
Your Grass Seeds are easily the best of any in the 
market.— F. C. KIMBALL. 
IN RHODfe ISLAND. 
The forty-bushel sowing of Permanent Grass Seed 
which I purchased from you is to-day the best field 
of grass in lihode Island .—BRADFORD NORMAN. 
IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
The grrtn appearance of the field attracted uni¬ 
versal .attention. It has far surpassed clover and 
timothy in the amount it yields.— J. B. CUMMINGS. 
IN VIRGINIA. 
My imanager is enthusiastic over your Mixture 
for Hay and Permanent Pasture. He claims this 
year he rut S tons per acre the first cutting, 1% tons 
the. second, and will cut 2 tons the third. The field 
is a grand sight; people come for miles around to 
see it. —Edward E. Barney. 
IN CONNECTICUT. 
There is a decided contrast between Timothy and 
your Special Grass Mixture for h<iy in favor of 
your Mixture, which is the best field of grass lever 
saw .— C. R. Fisher. 
IN OHIO. 
The Special Grass Mixture has given us the very 
best of satisfaction ; it i>roduced the finest piece of 
grass I ever saw and ha*given us ft large anlount of 
hay ami 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 special study. We Invite corre¬ 
spondence., and AviU advisethaboit gt&ssbB 
to use and make up special mixtures whore j 
necessary. 
FOR HAY AND PERMANENT PASTURE 
WILL LAST- TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT RENEWAL, 
Consisting of tlio 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 the Farm 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. 1 
“ “ “ “ Medium soils ... 
“ “ “ “ Heavy soils. 
“ Orchards and Shady Places. 
“ Hay only. Specially recommended for large hay crop 
“ Pasture only. Will stand close cropping without 
Injury. 
To these mixtures, intended for either Mowing Lands or Pasture (but which on account of 
their greater weight should be sown separately), are to bo 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. 
FULL DIRECTIONS FOR SOWING ENCLOSED IN EVERY BAG. 
The quantity needed (10 lbs.) of MIXED CLOVERS to sow 
an acre we will sell for $2.00. 
$2,50 per bushel of 14 lbs. . 
20 bushel lots, $2.45 per bushel. 
50 “ 2.40 
100 “ 2.35 
OPINIONS OF TUB PRESS. 
Country Gentleman says: "Below the taller grasses was a thick mat of finer kinds, and the close, rich turl 
hid every particle of soil.” 
American Agriculturist says: "Such mixtures are far superior to Timothy, or ‘Timothy and Clover,’ or 
any one grass, costing but a little more, lasting much longer, and giving frequently more than double the yield.” 
Farm and Home says: "The enormous yield of nearly four and one-half tons of good hay per acre should 
convince any one that more hay and better pasture can be grown 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 Farm Pays says: " Far 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 yielued 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 bear 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. 
FARM SEEDS WE DO NOT DELIVER FREE. 
