SEED-TIME AH© HARVEST. 
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THE PRIZE WORD HUNT. 
In the January number of Seed-Time 
and Harvest a prize of fifty dollars in 
» — 
gold was offered to the four persons who 
should send in the most complete lists of 
words found in that number containing 
eight or more unrepeated letters subject to 
certain rules there laid down. Among 
those rules was one requiring that all lists 
should be made strictly alphabetical, and 
although.partlcular stress was laid on the 
word strictly, even to the extent of italiciz¬ 
ing it, yet about forty per cent of all the 
lists sent in were made up in total disre¬ 
gard of this plain requirement, and the 
pity of it is, that a great manv of these 
lists were otherwise perfect. It was the 
intention of the publisher that all the rules 
should be perfectly plain, and should so 
fit one with another that no contradictions 
should be found, and no dark places be 
left, but many of the seekers after the 
prize found that there were contradictions 
in the rules, anj much difficulty in award¬ 
ing the prize has arisen from the various 
constructions put upon these rules. How¬ 
ever, we have decided to adopt each com¬ 
petitors construction, as the standard by 
which to try his or her list and hold him or 
her strictly to this test, when the con¬ 
struction so made is anywhere within the 
plain requirement of the rules. Tested by 
this decision, we find that of the large 
number of lists offered in competition, the 
lists belonging to Chequita Smead of Scran¬ 
ton, Pa., Mrs. Phebe Howe of La Plume, 
Pa., James F. Keeney of Jacksonville, Ill., 
and F. M. Howe of Factoryville, Pa., are 
the only perfect ones, and that they are ex¬ 
actly equal in merit. We therefore award 
the prize to the four persons above named 
in equal shares of twelve dollars and fifty 
cents each. It would have afforded us 
great pleasure to have given each compet¬ 
itor a prize, but where so many try, some 
must lose. And we trust that all who 
have taken part in this word hunt will 
think with one of the competitors that 
their time has not been wasted even though 
they have failed to secure a prize. Lists 
will be returned to competitors with cor¬ 
rections noted thereon, upon receipt of 
self directed envelope and a sufficient 
amount in stamps to prepay postage, if 
application is made within sixty days. 
. AN UNPARALLELED OFFER 
on Cabbage and Onion Seeds. 
A reference to our price list will show 
that our regular prices on Cabbage and On- 
icn, as well as other seeds, are already very 
low in comparison with other price lists. 
But, as we still have a large supply which 
we do not wish to carry over we will make 
the following unparalleled offer: We will 
fill an order for any one wishing any con¬ 
siderable quantity of cabbage or onion seeds 
of any variety in our list at ten per cent 
less than the very best offer you can get 
from any other reliable grower or dealer. 
We mean by this that we will sell at your 
own price providing you will order from us, 
and send us nine-tenth& as much money as 
any other grower or dealer on whom you 
can depend will charge. We will send you 
as good fresh seeds as can be procured 
anywhere at any price, and hope to hear 
from all who wish large amounts. If you 
know of any one who wishes cabbage seeds 
in quantity to grow plants, or onion seeds 
for market crops or for setts, please refer 
them to this offer. 
“When the winds of winter through the forests 
blow, 
And the moonbeams glitter coldly on the snow, 
Sweet it is to fancy, though the earth is chill, 
How her heart is keeping thoughts of summer 
still.” 
Every family that desires to provide for its young 
people wholesome and instructive reading matter 
should send for specimen copies of the Youth's Com¬ 
panion. Its columns give more than two hundred 
stories yearly, by the most noted authors, besides 
some thousand articles on topics of interest, anecdotes 
sketches of travel, poems, puzzles, incidents, humor¬ 
ous and pathetic. It comes every week, is hand¬ 
somely illustrated, and is emphatically a paper for 
the whole family. 
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Walden, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1883. 
W. C. Hart. Walden , N. Y.: 
From the sitting of Plymouth Rock eggs purchas¬ 
ed from you last season I raised six cockerels and 
three pullets, all tine specimens, Gilman's strain. 
Their combined weight when eight months old was 
78 pounds. Four cockerels were sold for $9.00. I 
declined an offer of $10 for a trio I now have. I con¬ 
sider your Plymouth Rocks the best I ever saw, and 
recommend them as such, C- B, Galatian. 
