An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
fOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Ti LLS A PLA NT._ 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL. V., NO. II. WHOLE NO., XXVIII. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., February. 1884. 
“ There's silence in the harvest-field 
And blackness in the mountain glen. 
And cloud that will not pass away 
From the hill-tops for many a day; 
And stillness round the homes of men." 
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We want some person in each town 
to act as agent for the sale of seeds as well 
ns to collect subscriptions for Seed-Time 
and Harvest. Have you not a half dozen 
or more neighbors who would give you their 
orders if asked? Well, write us for terms 
and we will pay you well for all the time 
you use in our interest. 
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How to send ns money. La Flume 
is a Money Order office and probably monej 
orders and Postal Notes are as convenient 
mid safe as any method for those of om 
friends who are themselves at money order 
offices. There is no cheaper or better way 
than to send Bank Checks or Drafts if you 
ure doing business with a bank. We accept 
personal checks without discount. If nei¬ 
ther of the above are convenient for you. 
enclose currency in a letter and. register it. 
using postage stamps for fractional parts of 
a dollar only. 
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“Up rose the. wild. old. winter-lung . 
And shook his beard of snow; 
'lhear the first young hare bell sing. 
'Tis time for me to go! 
Northward o'er the icy rocks , 
Northward o'er the sea, 
Mt/ daughter comes with sunny locks: 
This land's too warm for me!' ” 
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Our Kelail Catalogue 1ms been somewhat 
delayed, but will soon be ready and will be sent, 
without application, to all whose names are upon our 
subscription books, or list of customers for 18-S3, and 
to all others free upon application. It will contain 
prices and descriptions of all Vegetable and Flowers* 
Seed Potatoes. Implements, &c., which we supply. 
$500,00 IN CASH 
Has been offered by the publisher of this 
Magazine to the persons who send the 
largest lists of subscribers by March 1, 1884. 
This offer is made in good faith and the 
money will be fairly and honestly paid t< '■ 
j he persons who are e ntitled to it on that 
date. The terms of subscription are as fol¬ 
lows: First, the Magazine alone is supplied 
at 25 cents per year, and those who receive 
and remit subscriptions at this price get no. 
commission, premium or pay, whatever,, 
except their chance for one of the cash 
prizes. Second, for fifty cents the Magazine 
is sent with a certificate good for the sub¬ 
scriber's own choice of 25 cents worth of 
seeds, to be selected from our whole list,, 
and mailed postpaid whenever wanted. 
Agents who take subscriptions upon these- 
terms may retain a cash commission of 10 
cents on each, remitting us 40 cents each,, 
net, and count every name in competition, 
for our prizes. Or, if the agent prefers, he 
can remit the whole fifty cents on each, and 
in lieu of a commission, select a premium*- 
from our premium list, amounting to one- 
half of all the money sent, or 25 cents on 
each name. The premium list was pub¬ 
lished in our December and January issues... 
and will be sent free to any one desiiing to 
examine it. We also club ‘‘Seed-Time and 
Harvest” at a low rate with other publica¬ 
tions, arid all such names may count in 
competition. 
This Great Prize Offer vtys made in Nov¬ 
ember last, and many canvassers are half¬ 
hearted about beginning the competition at 
this late day. For tlieir benefit we will say 
that although we have received a large 
number of small clubs, no one person has- 
at the date of this writing, (Jan. 22,) sent in 
as many subscribers as we could go out and 
get, and in fact have more than once raised 
for other publications in a very few days . 
so we should not be at all surprised if the 
persons who take our largest prizes have 
yet to liegin the work. When you consider 
that our first prize ($200 00 in cash) 
will pay for 800 subscriptions at 25 cents* 
each, and that should any less number than 
800 win that prize, it would afford a profit 
iin-addition to all that the agent received 
for his subscriptions you will see that you 
