LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
Leesburg, La., Oct. 1, 1883. 
Mr. Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir, I was! 
the only person who raised any cabbage in this 
section last seasoa. Others tried but tailed. All 
who saw my cabbages said they were the 
largest they ever saw. I sold two thousand in 
Galveston; the retailers said they were the best 
lot of cabbages ever came to their market. They 
sold the largest for 50 cents each. And all whom 
I conversed with wanted your address, which I 
gaye with pleasure, from which I suppose you 
have received hundreds of orders before this 
time for the same kind of seeds as those cab¬ 
bages, (Marblehead Mammoth and Premium 
Flat Dutch.) Send me the same, I want no 
other. 
I omitted to state that one of those cabbages 
weighed 56 pounds, which was the boas cabbage 
ever raised here acknowledged by all. 
Yours Re-pecttully, Chester H. Alden. 
Krumroy, Ohio, Oct. 30, 1883. 
Mr. Tilliughast: Dear Sir—Will drop you 
word as to how the potatoes yielded which I 
bought of you. From the 1 pound of Blush, I 
harvested 77 pounds of nice potatoes, and from 
the Red Elephant I harvested 60 pounds, and 
that too, with only common field culture; no 
fertilizer of any kind was used whatever. 
I am much pleased with “Seed-Time and 
Harvest” and will endeavor to keep it a reg¬ 
ular visitor at our house, as I consider it in- 
dispensible to any one stirring the soil for a 
sustenance. Yours Respectfully, 
C. H. Welch. 
Freeport, Wash. Ter., Nov. 5, 1883. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—I thought 
I would let you know that I am well pleased 
with the seeds I bought of you. When I wrote 
to you for them, I told you if you could send me 
seeds that were not mixed and just as repre¬ 
sented, I would hereafter give you my orders. 
I must say that the Tree beans did splendidly, 
and all that saw them said they never saw 
such a lot of beans on a single stalk before. 
And the cabbage can’t be beat. The Jerseys 
are true and fine; the Mammoths are the largest 
I ever saw. When they had been set out two 
months, the largest one measured 4 feet and 9 
inches across from tip to tip, aud at ten weeks 
was 5 feet 2* inches across and 28 inches high, 
and now is heading up nicely. I have over 
200 fine, large hea-is in the patch and every 
plant will make a good head. 
I like Seed-Time and Harvest the best 
of any thing of the kind I ever had. I will 
send you another club soon. I want to ask you 
a question, if you think it worthy of an answer. 
I saw the accounts of some raising cabbage that 
weighed from 50 to 60 pounds. I want to know 
if they weigh the whole cabbage or just the head? 
If it takes the whole cabbage to weigh 60 pounds, 
I think I w 11 weigh some of my largest ones, 
and if any one ever raised one so large that the 
head weighed 50 to 60 pounds I will never say 
any more about large cabbage. I have weighed 
several heads after the loose leaves were all 
trimmed off, which weighed from 18 to 25 pounds, 
and I thought they were of good size. I should 
like to see the reports of the largest cabbage 
raided this year by any of the readers of Seed- 
Time and Harvest, and let us see who has 
the best. ^ m 
After I get a club of four to Seed-Time and 
Harvest, at 25 cents, then may I add to the 
club at the same price? ^ ours as Ever, 
n. G. Cronk. 
Answer: We shall be pleased to receive re¬ 
ports of large cabbages, as proposed by our cor¬ 
respondent, and hope those making them will 
state whether they were trimmed or not. 
Additions may be made to a club of lour, in 
any number at same price. 
Montezuma, Oct. 31, 1883. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear SirI have been 
reading a great many good pieces in Seed-Time 
and Harvest, so I thought I must give you 
my opiuiou in regard to the seed and magazine. 
I think it is well worth the money and more 
too, and as for the seed, I got well repaid for 
the money I paid you. I got Livingston’s 
perfection tomato seed of you. They are the 
finest L ever saw. And the Crystal White Wax 
bean was just what you represented them, and, 
in fact, all the seed I got of you. Our onion 
seed paid us well, and our parsnips are the 
largest I ever saw. I pulled up one this evening 
that measurrd twelve inches in circumference 
and two feet aul two inches long. I will be on 
hand when the time comes for seed again, and I 
will get some subscribers for you also. I look 
for Shed-Time and Harvest as much so as 
my County paper. Yours Truly, 
Joseph Huntz. 
Davenport, la., Nov. 18, 1883. 
Dear Sir: We are having plentiful crops this 
year of most all kinds of produce, and also pret¬ 
ty fair crops of fruits of different kinds. The 
way I me my judgment about crops for the 
i coming year is this: I look at the crops and 
