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Hinckley, Medina Co., Ohio, May 15th, 1882. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast, 
Dear Sir; I was somewhat 
surprised when I received the April Number of your 
excellent Quarterly to see my name among the suc¬ 
cessful competitors in the Seed-Time and Harvest 
Prize Contest. And now I have the pleasure of ac¬ 
knowledging the receipt from you of Ten Dollars in 
gold which you saw fit to au at d me for the third best 
list of answers to the three questions in the above 
contest. In your published list of correct answers I 
think you have made a slight mistake in the answer 
to the third question. You give the work handker¬ 
chiefs as one of the words which contains twelve 
different letters, which in fact contains but eleven, 
thus milking but eight words of twelve different 
letters. Thanking you for the prompt transmission 
of the aforesaid prize and hoping that we may be per¬ 
mitted again to engage in another prize contest in the 
Seed-Time and Harvest, I remain, 
Very Respectfully Yours, 
N. L. Van Dusen. 
Taylor, N. Y., May 9th. 1882, 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: 
Dear Sir: T received the five 
dollars in gold the 5th.. Please accept my thanks for 
the same. I remain, 
Yours Truly, 
Mrs. P. A. Halbert. 
Remarks. —Mr. Price is correct in the 
above assertions and we must give him the 
honor of sending the only strictly correct 
set of answers. The word “Handker¬ 
chiefs” was given in so many answers that 
we almost took it for granted that it con¬ 
tained twelve different letters and so left it 
in the list, a very careless oversight we 
must confess. Upon examination, how¬ 
ever, we find that neither of the four com¬ 
petitors to whom prizes have been awarded 
counted it, so the results are precisely the 
same as though we had omitted this blunder. 
Our report in the April Number also con¬ 
tains a typographical error in giving the 
word comparatively as being on page elev¬ 
en. This should have been page nine. Of 
the 663 contestants less than a dozen gave 
the eight works correctly. 
Another Prize Contest. 
The person who most correctly answers 
the following question before September 
1st, 1882, will be awarded $20.00 in gold. 
Question: What word in this (July) Number 
of Seed-Time and Harvest contains the 
greatest number of different letters and 
how many does it contain? If there are 
two or more words having the same num¬ 
ber of different letters. give them all and 
tell upon what pages they may be found. 
Conditions.—C ompetition is open to 
everybody, but every contestant must 
enclose six cents, (two three cent 
stamp will answer) with his or her answers 
to cover the cost of editing the contest. 
Should there be several absolutely correct 
answers, or the judges be unable to decide 
between the correctness of two or more 
answers, the prize will be equally divided 
between the contestants having such equal 
claims. If sufficient interest is manifested 
in this contest, we shall continue this de¬ 
partment and offer a much larger prize in 
future numbers. 
JYotes and Gleanings, 
Three things only are necessary for the 
accomplishment of any purpose. 1. Believe 
that you can do it. 2. Try to do it. 3. Do it. 
Mr. C. F. Himb, of Llewellyn, Pa., says that 
strong soapy wash water showered on currant 
and gooseberry bushes will kill currant worms 
sure. It will also prove beneficial to the bushes. 
A. M. Purdy says he is satisfied that a scat¬ 
tering of salt under pear trees, say from a pint to 
a quart to each tree, will prevent or check the 
pesr blight. 
Agriculture is always lavish of its gifts. It 
feeds the hungry, clothes the naked and shields 
mankind from disease, sickness and death. The 
grass, the tree, the flower, all add to man’s pleas¬ 
ure, comfort and health. 
Potted strawberry plants set in August 
or September will not produce a “full crop,” as 
frequently claimed, the following spring. But a 
par ial crop may thus be obtained and it is better 
to set them then, than to wait another year. 
A Wisconsin lady says that one half a pint 
of salt and one ounce of copperas dissolved in a 
gallon of water is all that is needed for a cut 
worm prevention. She dips the plants in this 
solution before setting them. Says she has used 
it for years and never knew of a plant being cut 
off after taking this precaution. 
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Our own experience with pear blight has 
been that trees which were set in the richest 
ground and cultivated, consequently those which 
made the strongest growth and continued to grow 
latest in the summer, were the first to become 
affected and die. Trees of the same varieties set 
on soil which was never manured and grass al¬ 
lowed to grow around them, in fact generally 
neglected, have made a si >wer growth but have 
remained healthy and bear every year. 
