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The IVinncr of the Ninth Regular Prize was Mrs. 

 L. A. Ludwig, Holling, Kansas, her account standing 

 highest among the lady contestants in that hst. Her 

 husband being disabled by rheumatism, this plucky 

 woman was thrown upon her own resources for the 

 time, yet she not only succeeded in planting and caring 

 for a good garden, with the help of her five young 

 children, but also prepared a model report in point of 

 neatness, compactness and clearness. 



MRS. L. A. LUDWIG 



Sales from the one and one-third acres were two 

 hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty cents, with 

 cabbage, radish, onions and tomatoes heading the list 

 as money-makers. The good work done by the chil- 

 dren was shown in the sale of over sixty dollars worth 

 of onions weeded by them. The charge for labor was 

 ninety-one dollars and fifty-three cents. All expenses, 

 one hundred and seventy-two dollars and eleven cents, 

 leaving sixty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents profit. 

 Much labor was saved by the iise of a whe^l hoe. By 



