Suggestions About Ordering 
IMPORTANCE OF ORDERING EARLY, before the rush season begins. We can give you better service 
then, for our stocks will be complete. Later in the season it is often impossible to give each order as 
careful attention as we would like. Being sold out of some varieties entails correspondence and delays, 
so on receipt of this catalogue made out your order and mail it to us immediately and avoid disap¬ 
pointments later. 
MAKING OUT ORDERS. Please be careful. Several orders 
came in last season with no name or address on them. Always 
give your Name, Post Office, County, State, and Express or 
Freight Office. Ladies, please use prefix Miss or Mrs. 
SHALL WE SUBSTITUTE? We do not substitute unless 
instructed to do so, except in the case of small quantities 
where we know the purchaser would prefer to have some 
other equally good or better kind, rather than none at all. 
WE MAKE NO CHARGE for packing-cases, boxes, or bar¬ 
rels. We charge for cloth bags only. 
PRICE OF BAGS. Seamless 2-bus. bags, used in shipping 
farm seeds, etc., 65 cts. each; 1-bus. bags, 30 cts.; 1-pk. 
bags, 15 cts.; burlap sacks, 15 cts. 
PRICES. The prices quoted in this catalogue are net, and 
not subject to discount. All prices quoted in this catalogue 
are subject to change without notice. 
ABOUT SHIPPING. F reight movements are slow and un¬ 
certain. We earnestly advise that all shipments go by express 
or parcel post whenever possible. We guarantee safe delivery 
to the railroad and express companies. Our responsibility 
ceases when we take railroad or express signature. 
SEEDS BY PARCEL POST. We will pay postage on all 
small seeds in packets, and in bulk up to Va pound, anywhere 
in the United States. Within the first and second zones from 
Williamsport, add to your remittance for postage as follows: 
1-pound orders, 8 cts.; for each additional pound, 1 ct.; on 
Peas, Beans, and Corn, 1 0 cts. for each quart. For rates to 
other zones, inquire of your postmaster. The necessary post¬ 
age must be sent with the order. 
Customers living on R. F. D. routes and beyond express 
delivery, will aid us by stating: "Goods reach us by Parcel 
Post only," to avoid the mistake of sending by express. 
On Parcel Post shipments we would advise our customers 
to add 5 cts. to their remittance to cover cost of insurance, 
otherwise no claim can be made if goods are lost. 
TERMS. Our prices are based upon cash sales. To avoid delay in filling your order, please send remit¬ 
tance with the order, including postage for Parcel Post, and cost of bags when necessary. Any overpay 
will be returned to you promptly. 
HOW TO SEND MONEY. Money is most conveniently and safely sent in the form of a postoffice money order, express 
money order, or check. We always accept personal checks as a convenience to our customers, if they have money in the bank. 
Small amounts may be sent in postage stamps; it is not safe to send silver. 
YOU RUN NO RISK in sending cash with order. Our financial responsibility can be learned from any bank, trust company, 
or merchant who subscribes to either of the Commercial Agency Reports. 
Every Home Its Vegetable-Garden 
No Vegetables ever come to the home table like those gathered fresh from the home-garden 
It’s a common saying that a good garden furnishes one-half the food of a family. This is true or false, 
as we interpret the term “good garden.’’ A real garden is supposed to supply fresh vegetables in abun¬ 
dance during the growing season, a surplus for canning purposes, so that the home may have all the 
good, wholesome, canned tomatoes, beans, peas, corn, asparagus, etc., that are used during the winter 
season ,and an extra surplus for the market. A good garden supplies something for the table every day 
in the year. 
A garden properly planted and intelligently cultivated is one of the greatest assets of the home and 
always contributes its full share toward the general welfare, health and prosperity of the home. 
Every family on every farm should have a garden; the land owner who cultivates his own land should 
provide a garden for himself and family; the tenant who cultivates land that is not his own should be 
given a small piece of land and time enough to grow a garden on it. 
It is not right that people who live in the country should depend on the groceries for either their 
fresh or canned vegetables. We live in a land of sunshine and have unbounded opportunities for gar¬ 
dening. 
P. A. McCOWAN 
CHAAPEL S SEED STORE 
WILLIAMSPORT, PENNA. 
R. C. CHAAPEL 
