. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S FIELD AND PERMANENT PASTURE MIXTURES. 5i Ita's Special Brass mixture lor flay ail Pasture. The grasses are of more importance than the grains. Grass is king; not corn. The grasses and clovers outrank the cereals in value. Good permanent pastures are worthy of the best thought of the best L_ DREER'S PERHANENT PASTURE MIXTURE. Dreer's Pasture Mixture is prepared to meet the average ne
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S FIELD AND PERMANENT PASTURE MIXTURES. 5i Ita's Special Brass mixture lor flay ail Pasture. The grasses are of more importance than the grains. Grass is king; not corn. The grasses and clovers outrank the cereals in value. Good permanent pastures are worthy of the best thought of the best L_ DREER'S PERHANENT PASTURE MIXTURE. Dreer's Pasture Mixture is prepared to meet the average need. It is made up of the grasses best calculated to afford an abundant and nutritious food supply for stock. Its formula is based upon successful experience. For all ordinary permanent pasturage it will be found entirely satisfactory. If your fields are old and worn out, it will pay to plow up and seed again, when you will soon be cutting heavy crops again from Dreer's Permanent Pasture Mixture. You will be able to cut two crops each year, whereas from Timothy only you can cut but one. Sow 50 lbs. to acre. In ordering stale whether for light or heavy soil. Price per ib. 25 cts.; by mail 33 cts.; 15-lb. bu. § ; 20-lb. bu. § ; 100 lbs. § REMARKS ON GRASS GROWING AND PERMANENT PASTURE. The preparation of the soil for permanent grass lands cannot be too thorough, nor is it likely that the manuring will ever be excessive. Stable manure is the best of all foundations for fertility. Ground bone and wood-ashes are unexcelled for top-dressing purposes. Stable manure is rich in available nitrogen. Bone (ground fine) is one of the best and most lasting sources of phosphoric acid. Wood-ash is rich in potash. These three things (nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash) furnish the elements of fertility which are lost by continued grazing and cropping. Taken together they make a perfect or '• complete " fertilizer or soil restorer. The above illustration shows a field where
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