from Cowling, Ill., no name. Ten cents 
from North ford, no county, state or name. 
Ten cents from McCluney. Ohio, no name. 
A friendly letter from N. F. Pierson, on po¬ 
tato culture, expecting an answer, but giv¬ 
ing neither post-office, county or state. 
A Black List. 
There is a class of people who habitually 
get their supplies from seedsmen and nurse¬ 
rymen by making some delusive promises, 
which they never intend to fulfill. Some 
of these are quite well known to the trade, 
but thinking they deserve more notoriety 
we have concluded to put our Black List in 
type. We assure our customers that their 
names will never be placed upon this list 
until we are satisfied that it was their inten¬ 
tion to defraud us. The fact that a man 
fails to pay a bill when it is due will not 
place him in this unenviable position if he 
can or will show us that Ids intentions are 
good. The following persons we believe 
have intentionally defrauded us. but if we 
are mistaken we shall be pleased to hear 
from them: 
Ross A. Barley. Big Civek. Georgia. 
Theo. . J. Ban/.. W'eseoesville, Leliigh Co.. 1’a. 
I IT. Haines. Delphi, Indiana. 
Johnson Berdine. New Freeport, Pa. 
W. F. Mott, Op pliant. Pa. 
J. X. Read. Columbia, N. J. 
< 'yrus McCully. Hubbard, Ohio. 
John Q. Dice, McElhattan, Pa.. 
A. E. Doty, PiercevilJe. Pa. 
Martin Lee. Tomkitis'ville, Pa. 
\V. VV. Vanxton. Mallorytown, Ontario, Canada. 
M. \V. Chamberlin. Gibson. Pa. 
CHEEKY. 
Delphi, Ind . March 28, 1882. 
Mr. Txm.tNGHAST. Sir: 1 wish you to send me by 
mail one pound each of the following potatoes and 
give me bill for same which I will send you by April 
lo. if satisfactory. I am teaching and will close my 
school by that time and can remit you the amount. 
One pound each. Wall's Orange. Belle. Defiance, 
Luxury. Cook’s^ Superb. La Plume Triumph. 
Yours Respectfully. 1. H. Haynes. 
Would it not be better to pass your gen¬ 
erous patronage around to some other seeds¬ 
man, or have you been the rounds and re¬ 
turned to us V You deliberately swindled 
us out of $12.00 on June 20, 1876. and in our 
opinion ought to be ashamed of yourself to 
try to make it any larger. No, thank you, 
you are already posted on our Black List 
as a Dead Beat. 
The Organita or Upright Organette, advertised by 
the Massachusetts Organ Co., Boston, Mass., is one 
of the most salable articles in the market. The price 
to agents is only . each, and they are selling 
thousands of them. 
Prize Contest Report. 
The interest manifested in our Prize Con¬ 
test, which was announced in our January 
number, has exceeded our expectation, the 
total number of contestants being 063. 
The correct answers to the three questions 
are as follows: 
1st. The number of individual and firm 
names in which the address is given in such 
a manner that a letter so addressed would 
reach the party—243. 
2d. The number of different varieties of 
Fruits, Flowers. Vegetables and Plants, in 
which none are counted unless it has a 
special name plainly given to distinguish it 
from some other variety— 4-4:2. 
3d. The number of words having the 
greatest number of different letters—9. 
The number of different letters in each — 12 . 
The words are as follows: 
1 Considerably, page 6. 2 Comparatively, page 9. 
3 Unprofitable, page 13. 4 Productiveness, page 18 
5 Productiveness, p. IT. .6 Handkerchiefs, page26 
7 Accomplishments. 27. 8 Advantageously, p. 30, 
9 Productiveness, last page of cover. 
There were received 24 correct answers 
to the first question, 8 to the second ques¬ 
tion. and 21 persons found eight words with 
twelve different letters, no one contestant 
finding the whole nine words. 
THE SUCCESSFUL COMPETITORS. 
The following were the best answers, and 
we a^vard the prizes in the order named: 
1st. F. E. Price, Nokomis. Ill. 244. 442. 8—12. 
2d. Mrs. Clarence White. Chinchilla, Pa. 243, 445,7—12. 
3d. N. L. Van Dusen. Hinckley. Ohio, 242. 439,.8—12, 
4th, Mrs. P. Halbert, Taylor, N. Y. 241,443,6—12. 
Many counted Rhyncospermu m , Chrysan- 
i themum, Ilambletoniavs. and other words 
in their list as having 12 letters. A careful 
count will convince them of the error. 
Very nice lists were sent in by Aden A. 
Hixon. Worcester, Mass. A. Cfrigg. Ham¬ 
ilton. Canada. J. K. Helmbold, Daleville. 
Pa. W. T. McDonald. Lexington. Ivy. J. 
J. Burtch. Wahoo. Neb. II. S. Owen, Pot- 
tersburgh, Ka n. Daisy Mae Bell, Salisbury. 
Md. Jno. L. Meyer. Wellsburgh, W. Va. 
Mrs. W. H. Tedford, Columbus Junction. 
Iowa. Emma C. Muclimore, Convent Sta¬ 
tion N. J.. and numerous others. 
In our correct answers we count J. C.. 
and J. O. Burrow' as one, it being a typo¬ 
graphical error. We count Agent's Herald 
and L. Lum Smith, as one. We count Will 
IF. Tracy. P. M. at La, Plume, Dead Let- 
ter Office at Washington , Beet Sugar Fac¬ 
tory Wilmington Del., and all the Papers in 
club-list whose location is given or plainly 
indicated. In flowers, the Gal. Poppy and 
Eschschaltzia califomica, are the same. 
We count four of the Herbs, and eleven of 
Plants named in Dick’s advertisement on 
last page of cover, all in strict conformity 
with the rules and requirements. 
