ONLY VARIETY THAT WITHSTANDS 
WINTER 
Your seed proved to be very good, germinating 
very quickly, and gave a most excellent stand. 
Your Grimm seems to be the only variety that 
stands our New England winter. Another feature 
in favor of it is that this 3-acre lot had not raised 
a profitable crop up to this time of seeding, being 
what we call light with a sandy sub-soil, sensitive 
to drouth. 
S. O. BARMES, Greenville, R. I. 
HARDIER THAN ALL OTHERS 
In the spring of 1912, Prof. L. A. Klink of 
MacDonald College bought 300 pounds of my 
Grimm. 
On November 20th, 1914, R. Summerly, lec¬ 
turer in Cereal Husbandry, wrote me as follows: 
"I have your letter of November 10th, addressed 
to Prof. Klink. He has taken a position as Dean 
of Agriculture at the University of British Co¬ 
lumbia. 
“With regard to the Grimm seed purchased 
from you some years ago by this department, our 
experience has been that your alfalfa is by far the 
hardiest of any alfalfa that it was possible to pur¬ 
chase on the market. I am sending a photograph 
of Grimm alfalfa for you, along side of thirteen 
commercial samples. You will see that it is much 
hardier than the others. Out of 88 varieties and 
strains of alfalfas, ‘Lyman’s Grimm’ was amongst 
the few that came through the winter of 1912 and 
1913, a very severe winter. 
“In another section of our experimental grounds, 
a half acre block of this alfalfa came through 
where Mammoth Red Clover, Medium Red Clover 
and Alsilce Clover in similar adjoining blocks win¬ 
ter-killed. We are advising the use of Grimm 
seed whenever it is possible to get it for the 
Province of Quebec.” 
12 
