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WE WANT YOUR EXPERIE,NCE WITH ADVERTISERS ! 



$50.00 To Be Given Away 



To Subscribers for ''Home and Flowers" Who Read Advertisements 



THE advertising patronage of this magazine is of vital importance to the subscribers. The 

 subscription price alone of such a publication as " Home and Flowers " does not cover 

 the cost of production, and it is therefore largely due to the advertising carried that we 

 are enabled to give our subscribers such value for their money as they are now getting. 

 But we cannot hope to have advertisers pay a large price for the space they use, unless sub- 

 scribers read and answer the advertisements. 



As a rule, an advertiser has a message of importance, or he would not pay to have it put 

 before the reader. We want you to read that message, and if it appeals to you answer it, and 

 tell the advertiser you saw it in " Home and Flowers." Then we want you to tell us your ex- 

 perience with the advertiser. 



To stimulate the reading of advertisements, " Home and Flowers " 

 has decided to Give Fifty ($50) Dollars in Cash to those persons 

 who do read them. We want letters on the subject, "My Experience 

 With Advertisers," and we make the following offer : 



For the Best Letter Received by us " " » " » » $10.00 



For the Next Best Letter Received by us " " " ^ , ^ 5,00 



For the Ten Next Best Letters Received by us, S2,50 each ^ •> ^ 25 00 



For the Ten Next Best Letters Received by us, $1,00 each , , ^ ^ 10,00 



Make your letters short and to the point. Let it embrace your actual experience. We want plain, practical letter8' 

 and you do not necessarily have to be an expert in writing or the use of English to be aw;irded a prize. The only 

 requirements are that your experience must deal with advertisers who use Home and Flowers," and that your sub- 

 scription for " Home and Flowers " shall be paid in advance. Tell us what advertisements you have answered, how 

 many you have read, which advertisers have given you the most prompt and careful response,. from whom you have 

 obtained the best bargains when purchasing advertised goods, etc., etc. All letters in this competition must be 

 received by July 31, 1903. The award=< will be made early in August. Your name will not be used without your 

 permission. Address all communications to 



ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT HOME AND FLOWERS, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 



Field Note 



All farmers and everyone who h:is a garden will be 

 Interested in the new catalogue just issued by the Iowa 

 Seed Co., of Des Moines. la. Itis ttie largest and most com- 

 plete book of this kind ever published by any seed firm 

 west of the Mississippi, which, as our readers are doubtless 

 aware, is the great seed growing section of the U. S. 

 This firm claims to now stand first in their line among 

 twenty million people, and they make a specialty of 

 supplying the best quality of seed corn and other farm 

 and garden seeds direct from the grower to the user. 

 Catalogue will be mailed free on request. 



A Wonderful Shrub 



It gives ua much pleasure to confirm to our readers the 

 fact that in the new botanic discovery, the Kava-Kava 

 Shrub, found on the Ganges River, East India, medical 

 science has found a true specific cure for that large class 

 of diseases caused by uric acid in the blood, or disor- 

 dered action of the 'kidneys. It is a wonderful discov- 

 ery, and is proving a blessing to suffering humanity. 

 Many of our readers have already experienced its value 

 in restoring them to health. Among these may be men- 

 tioned Rev, Thomas Owen, of West Pawlet, Vermont, 

 cured of kidney and bladder disorders of many years' 

 standing; Rev. W. B. Moore, of Washington, D, C, cured 

 of rheumatism and kidney disease by this wonderful 

 shrub; Hon. R. C. Wood, a leading attorney of Lowell, 

 Ind., for many years a chronic sufferer, but now hap- 

 pily restored to health. Many ladies also write of the ben- 

 efits they have received from its use in kidney and other 

 disorders peculiar to womanhood. For the benefit of 

 any of our readers who may be suffering from Bright's 

 disease, rheumatism, kidney or bladder disorders, pain 

 in back, gravel, and similar disorders, we desire to state 

 that the Church Kidney Cure Company, No. 400 Fourth 

 Avenue, New York, so tar are the only importers of the 

 Kava-Kava in the United States, and they will gladly 

 send a free treatment thereof by mail, prepaid, to any 

 sufferer who applies for the same. 



The McGregor Brothers, Florists, Springfield. Ohio, 

 offer our readers a grand collection of flower seeds at an 

 absurdly lov/ price. We know that these seeds are fresh 

 1902 crop. They also offer a liberal packet of Sweet Pea 

 Seed absolutely free. Their 1903 catalogue, which is 

 replete with bargains in plants, seeds and bulbs, is free 

 for the asking. 



A Reputation That Sells Goods 



Readers of this paper have been reading the adver- 

 tisements of the Cash Buyers' Union, of Chicago, for 

 several years. Mr. Julius Kahn, its present head, is a 

 business man of wide experience and it is this knowl- 

 edge coupled with his intuition which has enabled him 

 to comprehend the wants of the people and to supply 

 them at the lowest possible cost. He has religiously 

 maintained the policy of the founders of this wonderful 

 organization; he would rather suffer a loss himself than 

 to permit any of his customers to be dissatisfied, and itis 

 to this the Cash Buyers' Union owes much of its success. 



Free Pansy Seed 



The Great Northern Seed Company, Rockford, Illinois, 

 offers our readers, absolutely free, "a liberal packet of 

 their celebrated "Everblooming Pansy Seed." In addi- 

 tion to this they will also send you a copy of their beau- 

 tifully illustrated catalogue for 1903. 



How to Grow Profitable Crops 



Profitable crops can only be grown from good, reliable 

 seeds. Poor seeds are dear at any price. Some farmers 

 and gardeners have found this out by very costly ex- 

 perience. It is simply a waste of time and land to plant 

 any but "the best seeds that grow." H. W. Buckbee, of 

 Rockford Seed Farms, Rockford, Illinois, has spent 

 thirty-seven years in growing his famous seeds. He 

 gives all his seed crops his personal supervision and 

 care. Nothing but perfect plants are saved for seed. 



*^49 Years, 44 Greenhouses, 1000 Acres'' 



These words, with a variation only in the number of 

 the years, have appeared for many years in our adver- 

 tising columns in connection with *the advertisements 

 of The Storrs & Harrison Co., Nurserymen, Florists and 

 Seedsmen, Painesville, Ohio. There is something im- 

 pressive in the contemplation of those figures. 49 years 

 is a long time to continue in one business and the firm 

 that does so continue successfully must possess business 

 inteerrity and the ability to interpret the public's wants 

 in an eminent degree. 



