WALTER S. SCHELL'S QUALITY SEEDS FOR THE MARKET - GARDENER 
Scheirs New Wonder Pole Lima Bean 
$100.00 
In Cash Prizes 
Any one can grow Lima Beans 
if you follow these instructions : 
Have a rich, warm, loamy soil. 
Plant the seed when the soil has 
been warmed through in the spring. 
When planted too early, or in cold 
or soggy soil, the seed will rot. 
Use poles about 8 feet long and 
plant two beans to the pole for 
this contest (three or four are 
usually planted). Cultivate freely 
and put a top dressing of a smal 
quantity of poultry manure or some 
good fertilizer around each hill. 
When hoeing, work this well into 
the soil. This should give you an 
equal opportunity with all the 
others in trying for the following 
prizes. 
FIRST PRIZE, $50.00 
I will give #50.00 in cash to the one wlio 
Sjrows the two vines on one pole with 
the largest number of pods on them. 
SECOND PRIZE, $20.00 
I will give I20.CO in cash to the one who 
grows the two vines on one pole 
with the second largest number of 
pods on them. 
THIRD PRIZE, $10.00 
For the 3d largest number. 
FOURTH PRIZE, $10.00 
For the 4th largest number. 
FIFTH PRIZE, $5.00 
For the 5th largest number. 
SIXTH PRIZE, $5.00 
For the 6lh largest number. 
Conditions of the Contest. —It is not hard for you to comply with the conditions of the contest. 
Simply buy one or more packages of my New VVi nder Pole Lima liean and have \ our name registered 
as one trying for the prizes. If you buy them at the store, be sure to give your name to tne clei k who 
waits on you; or if you order them by mail, mention in your letter that you «i>h to Irv for the prizes. 
I will give all such a contest card, which you will keep and present again when vou bring in \ our vines 
for the judges to count. Remember.— Cirow only two vines to the pole, but plaiil as many hills or poles 
as you like, but bring in only the one with the largest numlier of pods on it. 
Vines must be brought to my store, or sent postpaid, any time during the first week in 
September, and prizes will be awarded the Monday following. 
Price of my new Bean. Sold in One-fourth Pint packages only, at $1.00 per package 
This <iuantity will produce enough beans for the planter to realize fully $20 if sold for eating at 
market prices. Now if you are successful also in obtaining one of the prizes, your investment of $1 
will be a good one. Order your seed now. 
hctiell's New ^^'cndcr Po!e Lima Bean 
This photograph shows a shiule pod of Scliell's Ntw Woiiclrr I'nle I.hiia, Riving an 
ulea of the superior qualify ol tlic immense, broad, ihicl:, laump beans. No other 
Pole Lima Bean can compare with it in quality and produ> tiveness. 
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