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SEED-TIME Ml© HARVEST, 
Letter from Kansas. 
BY B. F. SMITH. 
Seed Potatoes. 
BY M. J. SHEPHERD. 
Dear Editor, —Your excellent and so ap¬ 
propriately named, Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest, is an occasional visitor in my humble 
home. I have been greatly interested in 
every visit it has made me, and many times 
have thought to acknowledge your kindness, 
but with the multitude of papers that come 
to me weekly, it was soon covered up and 
hustled aside with others for future refer¬ 
ence. 
When I first saw the notice of its publica¬ 
tion I soliloquized thus: Where is the room 
for any more farm journals? The country 
is already overflowing with horticultural 
and agricultural literature. Soon after this 
I received a copy and I pondered over the 
name. It seemed so appropriate, so full of 
suggestions of past and present things, and 
so direct from the power from whom all 
blessings flow. Then my mind wandered 
away back to the days when the promise 
was made: While the earth remaineth, seed 
time and harvest, cold and heat, and sum¬ 
mer and winter, and day and night, shall 
not cease. 
Why in all these latter hundreds of years 
have those words lay hidden away, not in 
the earth, but in THE book that has been 
studied more than all others. Every num¬ 
ber I hive received is full of living, active 
knowledge of the things that stir our bodies 
to action in the spring, encouraging us to 
plow deeper, fertilize more, plant better 
seeds, and thus secure a greater harvest. 
“Seed-Time and Harvest,” I hope you 
will live a thousand years, or that the proph¬ 
ecy from on high shall be fulfilled in you, 
and that as long as the rainbow is seen you 
shall “never fail,” that your readers will 
number hundreds of thousands and that the 
seed you propagate will find a lodging place 
in the soil of thousands of farms and gar¬ 
dens of our country, and that your words of 
wisdom shall likewise lodge in the hearts of 
your numerous readers and God will abund¬ 
antly bless the harvest of both. 
Lcnvrence, Kansas. 
When you have hacl Catarrh long enough, just 
send 10c. to Dr. R. C. Sykes, 181 Monroe St.. Chicago, 
for his “True Theory of Catarrh.” 
It is a great temptation to the farmer 
when he sorts over his potatoes to save the 
small ones for seed. This is a small matter 
one year and may make but little, if any, 
difference in the crop, especially if the sea¬ 
son is favorable. And here let me say a 
word on this point. I have noticed that 
when from any cause there is a partial fail¬ 
ure of a crop, it is then that the greatest 
difference is shown between good and poor 
seed. With good soil, good preparation 
careful seeding and good cultivation, with 
a favorable season, the difference between 
good and poor seed is not noticeable; but 
let the seoson be unfavorable and the differ¬ 
ence is very easily seen. The farmer may 
plant poor seed, whether it be in the garden 
or in the field, and with a favorable season 
raise a fair crop, yet this is hardly an argu¬ 
ment in favor of poor seed nor does it prove 
that the crop would not have been better 
had better seed been used. In my experi¬ 
ence I generally find that when there is a 
partial failure is when the crop pays the 
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