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$100.00 in Cash Prizes Offered foi^ Best 
Vegetables Grown From My Seed 
A ny one who buys seed of me may compete for these prizes without 
cost, except to send the specimens to me by parcel post, prepaid. 
Why do I offer these prizes? 
Because I want these prize products from which to produce a prize strain. 
Can you doubt that seed from these prize specimens will produce a superior 
and more prolific crop than odinary seed? There can be no doubt of it pro- 
vided it is carefully and intelligently grown on, as it will be. 
I offer $20.00 for the best two stalks of Stowell’s Evergreen Sweet Corn. 
$10.00 for the best two stalks of Country Gentleman Sweet Com. 
$10.00 for the best two stalks of Golden Bantam Sweet Corn. 
Now, mind you, this calls for only two stalks of each variety, with ears 
attached. The stalks may be cut off above and below the ears. No prize corn 
may be grown nearer than fifty yards from any other variety. The following 
points will be considered in judging this corn: Number of ears, size and quality 
of ears, actual weight of com shelled. The corn must be allowed to thoroughly 
ripen before being cut. It must be carefully packed and sent by parcel post 
before November 1 , 1919. Put your name on each shipment. 
1 offer $1 0.00 for the best twenty-five pods of Fairfax New Giant Podded 
Lima Beans. 
$5.00 for the best twenty-five pods of Improved Large Bush 
Limas. 
Beans must be allowed to thoroughly ripen before being picked, carefully 
packed, not shelled, and sent by parcel post before November I, 1919. 
1 offer $5.00 for the best three fruits Spark's Earliana Tomato. 
$5.00 for the best three fruits New Stone Tomato. 
•r Tomatoes should be about ripe, but still firm, and may be mailed safely 
if carefully boxed. Send at any time before November 1,1919. A careful 
record will be kept of each lot as it comes in. 
I offer IjO OO for the best single fruit of Baltimore Nutmeg Muskmelon. 
$10.00 for the best fruit of Rocky Ford Muskmelon. 
Send only one fruit of either variety, packed carefully in a wooden box, 
at any time before November 1st. A careful record will be kept of each ship- 
meat^* It comes in, with measurement, weight and appearance and quality of 
1 offer $5.00 for the best Hubbard Squash. 
$5.00 for the best Kleckley Sweet Watermelon. 
, ‘ *‘ems, as they will be rather heavy 
to mail. Weigh and measure them before a witness, send the seed from each 
Snr"., 
^ exhibit sent me in this contest, 
IxiilbhJr** ^ specimens, at the option of the 
po,.ib“'to luX" November l« „ i, i, 
sh-n NOTICE —Be sure to put your name and address on every 
shipment sent me and place the name of the fruit in the package ^ 
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