1 COMMENCED offering cash prizes for club orders in 1883. The amount 

 then was $100. IN 1889 IT AMOUNTS TO $1,000. Nothing can 

 better illustrate the magnificent growth in the demand for Maule's Seeds 

 during this time than the above simple statement. It is a self-evident 

 fact, clearly demonstrated many times over in the last ten years, that the 

 larger business I do just so much tlie more liberal can I afford to be 

 with my customers. As every one is aware, I last year offered in cash 

 premiums considerably more than all the rest of the American seedsmen put 

 together, and also venture to say that I was equally as generous in the amount 

 of seed given away free for trial. 



I have often flattered myself that there is a certain individuality about 

 the manner in which I conduct my business, entirely different from that of 

 any other house in the trade. 



I have always believed in being original, not In copying others. This 

 is one reason I think of my success in the past. In the last dozen years I have 

 many times left the old beaten paths followed by some of my competitors for 



fifty years or more and struck out with something new that I thought would 

 prove mutually profitable to both my customers and myself. I did this in 

 when I first offered S100 for the largest club orders sent me that year. How 

 successful this idea has been can easily be seen from the fact that last July I 

 distributed $750 among 57 of my customers and next July I propose to give away 

 S1000 among 93 of this year's club-raisers. Now one secret of my great success in 

 offering cash prizes for the best vegetables and largest club orders is because my 

 customers know every premium I offer is paid to the proper person at the time 

 agreed upon. There are too often promises made in the seed trade that are never 

 fulfilled ; but be the -vegetables large or small, or the club not amount 

 to as much as the cash prize, every premium I have ever offered 

 has been paid in full at the time agreed upon, and the name and 

 address of every successful customer published in next year's catalogue. I 

 never have believed in offering premiums and then never letting 

 any one know who secures them. Below I give the names and post- 

 office addresses of the 57 successful club-raisers in 1888. 



< FIRST PRIZE of $250 for club of S351.60.-JESSE C. ROACH. Wallace. Mo. 



g SECOND PRIZE of $100 for club of $260.79.-0. N. TRANBARGER, Johnson's 



,, Crossing, Ind. 



-j THIRD PRIZE of $50 for club of $85.65.-A. M . STEVENS, Williamstown. Mass. 



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FOURTH PRIZE of $25 for a club of $75.10.- B. M. de NEMEGYEI. Independence. W. Va. 

 FIFTH PRIZE of $20 for club of $74.72.-B. G. R0SENBERGER. North Wales. Pa. 

 SIXTH PRIZE of $20 for club of $66.05.-G. A. McCLEAN. Meriden, Conn. 

 SEVENTH PRIZE of $20 for club of $62.35. -EDWARD HAWKINS.. Jr. Jamesport. N. Y. 



FIVE PRIZES OF $15 AWARDED TO 

 For Club THE FOLLOWING : 



$53.85— T. IF. Tanney, Reedsburg , Ohio. 



55.60—D. Bartlow, Point Pleasant, Ohio. 



44.95— E. It. Smith, Hilliards, Ohio. 



42.25 — Mrs. Frank Watson, Flagg Spgs, Kg. 

 41.45— Eli Mclaughlin, Wincliester, Ills. 

 TEN PRIZES OF $5 EACH AWARDED 

 For Club TO THE FOLLOWING : 

 $28.42— B. Indelkofer, Weston, Ohio. 



28.20—.Tohn A. W. Ooode, Emberton, Kg. 



27.70— Walter Ellis, Jonesboro, Ind. 



27.25 — James W. Woods, Nevada, Mo. 



27.20—E. K. Blanton, Stanley, Kans. 



26.65— Ellen Rogers, Montague, Mich. • 



26.25— W. L. Olmstead, Udall, Kans. 



25.65— Geo. Morrow, Americus, Mo. 



25.55— Thos. C. Anderson, Noblesville, Ind. 



25.35— H. H. Darrow, Hudson, Ohio. 



WON'T YOU 



FIVE PRIZES OF $10 EACH AWARDED 

 For Club TO THE FOLLOWING: 

 $37.20— Elizabeth Owens, Gilboa, Ind. 



34.80 — .lohn W. Spencer, Sullivan, Ind. 



34.40— C. H. Van Thome, Berlin Heights, O. 



3i.lO—Geo. W. Hopper, Peru, Ind. 



29.05— George Wise, New Point, Ind. 

 TEN PRIZES OF $4 EACH AWARDED 

 For Club TO THE FOLLOWING: 

 $25.30—Mrs. R. M. Ewing, Frankfort, Ohio. 



25.30—J. D. Roberts, Arroyo Grande, Cat. 



25.10—Geo. F. Burkdoll, Lyndon. Kans. 



25.00— Madison Avery, Wellington, Kans. 



24.90—A. M. Storks, Moab, Utah Ter. 



24.75 — A. M. Lewis, Bevier, Ky. 



24.60— .Jesse Robinett, Rush, Md. 



23.65— Eliz. Heitzman, Dunkirk, Ohio. 



23. 50 — Newton, Cunningham, Boonville, Mo. 



23.10— Geo. W. Woods, Macey, Arks. 



APTEl READING THIS PAGE, MAKE IP YOl'R MIND TO 

 SEND IN A CLUB FOR MAULE'S SEEDS, AND SECURE ONE 

 OF THE FOLLOWING PREMIUMS FOR YOURSELF ? 



TEN PRIZES OF $3 EACH AWARDED 

 For Club TO THE FOLLOWING: 

 $23.05—A. R. Batch, Little Elm, Texas. 



22.00—Mrs. J. S. Hague, Excello, Mo. 



21.85— Dix H. Rowland, Wellsboro, Pa. 



21. SO— 31. Brothers, Anderson, Ind. 



21.75— K. R. Dalehite, Davilla, Texas. 



21.65 — Jas. M. Richardson, Sirancille, Ind. 



21.60—,Tohn .T. Mason, Cambridge, Mo. 



21.38— Jos. Walter, Washington, Ind. 



21.00—C. W. West, Shumwau, Ills. 



20.75—T. ,T. Russell, Hmneworth, Ohio. 

 TEN PRIZES OF $2 EACH AWARDED 

 For Club TO THE FOLLOWING: 

 $20.65— Peter Sands, Sheldon, Ills. 



2O.60—W. J. Wyiie, Sparta, Ills. 



20.35—John Robinet, Kidder, Mn. 



20.10—H. B. Sipperly, Madisonville, Ky. 



20.00—Lena Ragland, Licking, Mo. 



19.90— W. B. Hirlinger, Coles Creek, Pa. 



19.89— F. P. Small, Roaring Creek, Pa. 



19.45— Mrs. Wing J. Martin, Webotuck, N.T. 



19.30 — Mrs. C. W. Ruark, Winchester, Ills. 



AS ALREADY STATED above, -this coming July I will divide among club 

 raisers of Maule's Seeds, one thousand dollars for the 93 largest club orders 

 for packets and ounces only, sent me between now and July 1st, 1x89. All will 

 admit this is a large amount of money. Now, why should you not receive part of 

 it? By you. I mean you, who are this minute reading this. Stop and think one 

 moment. Until you' have once tried, you can have no idea how easv it is to 

 have vour neighbors join you in ordering their seeds. IT IS SIMPLY 

 ASTONISHING THAT MOKE OF MY" CUSTOMERS DON'T 

 WORK FOR THESE PREMIUMS. I know most of the prize-winning 

 clubs during the past six years have been secured with but little trouble. Oue 



food afternoon's work has secured frequently a cash premium, 

 esides giving the club raiser the benefit of my largest discount on seeds in 

 packets, $15 for §10. With the reputation Maule's Seeds have in all sections 

 of the country for reliability and purity, and with this bright, new Catalogue 

 filled to overflowing with so manv good things yon and your neighbors 

 want, will you not try it? Don't be discouraged if you do not get an order just 

 at first. The first two or three orders will be* harder to secure than 

 all the others. Somebody is goitii; to receive that 81.000. Juh' 1st. Why 

 should you not receive part of it I I have no secret terms to agents. I 

 try to do everything open and above-board. Every reader of this Catalogue can 

 go to work and raise a club for Maule's Seeds, knowing that no one has better 

 terms than he. Remember, all the orders yon send, little or big, will 

 be counted up July 1st. Even if you should not be so successful as to 

 secure a cash prize, you can, by making up a 310 club, secure mv greatest 

 discount on seed in packets. Always remember that for a ten dollar bill you 

 can select seeds in packets to the value of $15. Should any one desire 

 a few extra Catalogues to help them in canvassing. I will onlv be too glad to 

 mail them. Let all enter this friendlv competition determined to win. Don't 

 try for a small prize, GO FOR THAT $250. It is worth an extra effort, 

 and any one who puts in a week or ten days of good solid work has an excellent 

 chance of securing it. Last year about twenty of mv customers were disap- 

 T>ointed in not securing a premium, because their clubs were not quite large 

 enough ; now this year, with 36 extra premiums, no one should be disappointed, 

 and every one who makes even a small effort ought to, and can safelv. I think, 

 depend on being one of the 93 whose names will be published on this page of 

 my Annual Catalogue for 1890. BEAR IN MIND, everv order vim send me 

 for packets or ounces of Maule's Seeds will be counted Ju'lv 1st, 18*89, when the 

 prizes will be awarded as announced in opposite column. 



For the Largest Club Order of Packets 



and Ounces of either Garden or Flower 



Seeds, - - $250.00 



For the Second Largest Club, 100.00 



For the Third Largest Club, 50.00 



For the next 5 Largest Clubs each 25.00 



For the next 5 Largest Clubs 



For the next 5 Largest Clubs 



For the next 10 Largest Clubs 



For the next 10 La rgest CI u bs 



For the next 10 Largest Clubs 



For th e n ext 20 La rgest CI ubs 



For til e 1 1 ext 25 La rge st Clubs 



93 prizes, TOTAL, «|51 OOO.OQ 



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I have not the space to publish here more than one of the letters received from 

 the above-named club-raisers last season. Below I give an extract from a letter 

 received from Mr. O. N. Tranbarger under date of September 10. and also publish 

 an extract he enclosed from an article in the Anderson Democrat, of August 10 



O. N. Traiibaricer-.loliiiMon'.s Crossing Ind.— September loth., writes: 

 .No higher encomium could be paid your business than the fart that as a club-raiser 

 I have for four years increased mv sales for Maule's seeds from SIC to 1280 and in 

 their use for this time I have made no failures, and have full confidence in the fact 

 that you are unquestionably and most emphatically the most progressive and 

 enterprising seedsman on the American Continent. The seeds you send out as I 

 have reasons to know, from four years' experience, stand unrivaled Mv garden 

 this year is finer than a riddle. I have just returned from our County Fair where 

 I secured 16 premiums on 17 entries, and took sweep-stakes on Ve-etaliles and Corn 

 aised from your seeds. I here take occasion to thank vou for the $100 vou sent me as 



second premium for club orders. I was fighting for the first, but 1 congratulate the 

 getter of it, who so gloriously downed me." 



Tin' Anderson Indiana Democrat, August Hl'.li. issue, contained the following : 

 '• Mr. (). N. Tranbarger of stony Creek Township, one of the most popular t< a 

 in the county, received a check for sum last week from Win. Henry Manic' 

 house of Philadelphia, as second premium for having sold nexl to the largest 

 amount of seeds of any agent in the employ of the firm. For several years i*ast 

 Mr. Tranbarger has been spending his vacations in soliciting for this house, i' 

 always met with signal success in his work. Last year he secured the lirs: premium. 

 Mr. Tranbarger may be termed a hustler, and this, together with tie excellent 

 satisfaction which the goods of his firm have triven. account for his success." 



■wrrkrpxi-The same mail that brought Mr. Tranbarger's letter, that of8 v. v.. Sept. 



ItUlIi i4th. contained over 300 other letters from customers of Maule's Seeds 

 endorsing them In equally as glowing terms. Prom Aug. 1st. to .ian'> . 1st, of each 

 year, the number of such letters that come to hand, is numbered by the tl ~ 



IS IT TO BE WONDERED THAT TIIK DEM VM> FOB M.U 1.1* 

 SKEDS INCREASES SO KNOKMOl >EY EVERY YEAR* 



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