mul g amat. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL. V., NO. VIII. WHOLE NO., XXXIV. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., August, 1884. 
We shall not promise advertisers 
500,000, nor even 350,000 copies of our com¬ 
ing December and January issues, but we 
shall from this date forward print and mail 
as large editions every month as we can pos¬ 
sibly afford for the amount charged for our 
advertising space. We are not much on the 
brag, but when advertisers count up the 
results, Seed-Time and Harvest will be 
found to tally not so far behind t-ome dollar- 
a-line mediums as may be imagined. Try 
it and see. That $500 prize paid by us last 
winter was not thrown away, if we may 
judge by the array of clubs it brought us. 
Price of “P. S.” Cabbage Seed. In 
reply to a number of inquiries as to the 
probable retail prices of our famous Puget 
Sound Brand of Cabbage Seeds for 1885, 
we would say we see no reason to change 
our present quotations for a year to come. 
The cabbage seed crop in most sections of 
the East is not as heavy as last season, 
which would naturally tend to advance the 
prices of common stock, were it not for the 
fact that nearly every dealer in the country 
is loaded with carried-over stock of vary¬ 
ing qualities. 
Our new crop will be the heaviest we 
ever harvested, and every ounce of it is 
grown from fine, large selected heads. We 
believe our patrons would prefer to pay the 
25 cents per ounce we charge, and thus 
help us to keep up the quality of the seed 
to its present high standard, even if com¬ 
mon and imported brands are v_Tered by 
various dealers at ha’t that price. V hat is 
an investment of $ .00, compared wit the 
value of thirty t r forty thousand nice, 
large cabbages which one pound of such 
seeds will produce, that a man should try 
to save, when he may loose many dollars 
for every penny saved ? This country has 
seen too much of such economy already. 
A Good Suggestion. Mr. E. J. Hol¬ 
lister, of Tecumseh, Michigan, is very en¬ 
thusiastic over our Puget Sound Brand of 
Cabbage Seeds. He has this season intro¬ 
duced enough in his neighborhood to cover 
eighty acres in cabbages, and thinks the 
growers in his locality will want nothing 
else in future. In a recent private letter 
he writes: “I have been thinking that it 
would be a good idea for each one of your 
agents to exhibit some fine cabbages this 
fall at the different County and State fairs, 
and also show some of the fine heads pro¬ 
duced from your seeds on Saturdays at 
their town stores. That is the way I do, 
carry them up to one prominent store and 
hang them up, and they are kept that day 
in sight, and it being a day that farmers 
generally come to town, they ask all man¬ 
ner of questions about them, which the 
store-keeper kindly answers, and the result 
is the following season they come and ask 
me for seed of the sort they saw hanging 
up at such a store the season before. If 
your agents would do this, especially at the 
fairs, you could print them some cards for 
distribution, and it seems to me it would 
do you a great amount of good. I can work 
harder to sell your seeds than any others, 
as I have such confidence in them, and 
that is everything. They are nearly through 
setting about eighty acres of cabbages here, 
all from your seeds, and finer plants I never 
saw.” 
We think the above a capital suggestion. 
Mr. Hollister shows what can be done, and 
shows how to do it. The Puget Sound Cab¬ 
bages are surely working their own way 
and will soon lead all others in all sections. 
We will cheerfully furnish the cards, 
without charge, to any one who is inter¬ 
ested enough in our behalf to use them as 
above indicated. 
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A WORD WITH ADVERTISERS. 
The Publication of this Magazine was 
begun in January, 1880, and the determina¬ 
tion of its publisher to furnish so much 
valuable practical matter on such liberal 
terms to subscribers as we have since 
