. 32nd annual catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Datr/ Farmer's Grass mixture Dairy farmers particularly desire to take a crop of hay off the meadow and have the aftergrowth for pasture, and where the natural grasses are carefully selected with this object in view, this can be successfully done. This mixture i& composed of tall, quick-growing grasses for mowing, after which the dwarf-grow- ing varieties will cover the ground and furnish grazing until late in
. 32nd annual catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Datr/ Farmer's Grass mixture Dairy farmers particularly desire to take a crop of hay off the meadow and have the aftergrowth for pasture, and where the natural grasses are carefully selected with this object in view, this can be successfully done. This mixture i& composed of tall, quick-growing grasses for mowing, after which the dwarf-grow- ing varieties will cover the ground and furnish grazing until late in the fall. This mixture consists of the best varieties of clover and grass seeds, as Red Clover, Al- sike, Orchard Grass, Rye Grass, Tall Meadow Oat, Meadow Foxtail, etc. It is a special mixture which will please every- one. Sow 20 lbs. per acre on ordinary soils. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c postpaid. By freight, 22 lbs. $,50 lbs. $, 100 lbs- $ PERMANENT MEADOW MIXTURE- Will make best quality hay every year- the mixture containing such grasses as produce a heavy growth, and mature to- gether. We send out the No. l mixture when not otherwise ordered, as it is adap- ted to medium or average soils. Sow 16 to 22 lbs, per acre. NO. AND DESCRIPTION, OUR MEADOW MIXTURE COMPARED WITH ORDINARY GRASS CROP, 20 lbs. 50 lbs. $2 15 $4 75 2 25 5 00 2 25 5 00 2 25 5 00 2 35 5 25 100 lbs. $9 2R 9 5ft 9 50 9 5ft io oa PERMANENT GRASSES: Most of our western farmers have not yet learned that a pasture or meadow of mixed grasses is far superior to clov- er and timothy alone. All authorities agree that for both pasture and hay best results are obtained from the use of grass seeds in mixture. The reasons are that: FirstâA number of species will insure a much denser growth than the same number of seeds of one or two species, and prove less exhausting to the soil, since they live to large extent on different con- stituents. SecondâSeasons that affect some grasses adversely are favor- able to
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