and Jams! 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
_ Conducte d by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
_ OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
advertising rates, 45 CENTS per nonpariel line. 
Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. 
VOL. V., NO. X. WHOLE NO., XXXVI. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., October, 1884. 
The hurrying farm work is now near¬ 
ly over, and the evenings longer. Can you 
not now get time to write that item for pub¬ 
lication in Seed Time and Harvest, which 
you have had in mind for so long? This is 
also a good time to tell your neighbor how 
cheap a magazine it is and get his subscrip¬ 
tion. Four yearly subscriptions cost but 
one dollar. Do you not feel that you owe 
that much to it? Now pay up! 
A correspondent asks when our sub¬ 
scription campaign is going to open and 
what special inducements we are going to 
offer to subscribers this fall. Why, bless 
you, onr campaign has been running all sum¬ 
mer and we expect it to continue all winter. 
For Fifty Cents, or for only Twenty-five 
Cents if four or more club together, we fur¬ 
nish a volume of over Three Hundred 
Pages of excellent original and carefully 
selected matter. Ts not that “inducement” 
enough ? If we should give it outright we 
suppose some would reject it if no chromo 
or prize accompanied it. But it is fortunate 
that it has a host of friends ready and will¬ 
ing to support it for the sake of the good 
that is in it without hope of further reward. 
Tlie American Seedsman. On the 
15th of the present month we shall publish 
the first number of a new illustrated month¬ 
ly magazine to be devoted exclusively to 
the interests cf the seed growers and seed 
dealers of America “and the rest of crea¬ 
tion.” In size and shape it will be similar 
to Seed-Time and Harvest. About one- 
half of its space will be occupied by a Di¬ 
rectory of American Seedsmen, in which 
may be found the correct address of nearly 
two thousand growers and dealers in seeds. 
By keeping this standing in type and mak¬ 
ing corrections and additions front month 
to month as they are given us by friends 
and subscribers, we shall soon get and keep 
the only complete and accurate directory 
of seedsmen ever compiled or published. 
The remainder of the space will be filled 
with communicated articles, notes and 
items of particular interest to the class for 
whose benefit it is published. 
The publication of such a magazine is not 
the result of a new idea into which we 
have hastily and thoughtlessly jumped, 
but one for which we have been slowly 
preparing for several years. We intend to 
make it so valuable and interesting to the 
the trade that no member will do without 
it. Being limited to a particular class, its 
circulation will not, for a time at least, ex¬ 
ceed 2000 copies, and cannot be maintained 
at a low price like Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest which has published editions as large 
as sixty thousand cbpies of a single num¬ 
ber. We publish this brief outline of its 
inception and purpose, thinking a few in¬ 
terested persons may thus have their atten¬ 
tion called and write for further particulars. 
The subscription price will be Three Dollars 
per year. Advertising rates 20 cents per 
line. 
Tlie D. L. & YV. R. B, About the 
year 1850 the development of the Anthracite 
coal region of Pennsylvania began. As the 
flinty “black diamonds” were found to there 
exist in almost inexhaustable quantities, a 
railroad was projected from Slocum Hollow, 
(now Scranton) the center of the coal fields, 
through a notch in the mountains known as 
Leggett’s Gap, and thence northward thro’ 
die counties of Wyoming and Susquehanna 
where it intersected the New York and Erie 
Railroad at Great Bend, a small town on 
the state line in the head waters of the river 
Susquehanna, and by this well known old 
road was then carried to the Great Lakes. 
In locating the new “Legget’s Gap Rail- 
Road ’ (as it was then called) the surveyors 
staked their course to the front door of the 
house in which the Editor of Seed Time 
and Harvest was born, and if his memory 
can be relied upon it was in about the same 
