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SEED-TIME km HARVEST. 
CUSTOMERS ALL PLEASED. 
Washington ville, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1884. 
Mr. Tillmghast: As the selling season is 
over now I can tell you what I have done. 
I have sold 12,600 cabbage and 8,152 celery 
plants. This may sound small to some of 
your agents but I have had three others to 
work against. For my part, I am well 
pleased. Another year I think I shall be 
able to sell a great many more. My cab¬ 
bage plants are all gone. I supplied all but 
one customer with cabbage plants; he came 
too late. I have a few celery plants left. 
Cabbage here is looking very line, although 
the worms are troubling them a great deal. 
My customers are all pleased with the way 
the cabbage plants are heading up. They 
say they are not used to having them com¬ 
mence heading so soon. I tell them there 
is a great difference in cabbage. I shall 
take some cabbage to the Fair if I have 
good luck with them. 
In regard to those cards. It is just what 
I was going to suggest in my report, but 
that other chap got ahead of me; you may 
send roe some and I will use them just the 
same. Yours Truly, John W. Taylor. 
Ten Cents A Woodchuck Tail. New 
Hampshire has so much rugged wilderness 
remaining between its hills that bounties 
are offered by state law for wildcats, bears, 
foxes and other animals which devour flocks 
and despoil the fields. Among these latter 
outlaws are hawks, crows and woodchucks. 
These latter grizzly offenders are worth 10 
cents a head, or rather a tail, as is illustrated 
by the following story told by the Concord 
Monitor, a paper publshed in a city which 
has paid for 728 woodchucks killed within 
its limits. The Monitor says: “A gentle¬ 
man from Bow was in the city Saturday | 
morning, and told the following: ‘A boy of j 
our town set a woodchuck trap a day or two 
since in the pasture, and on going for his ! 
cows, Thursday evening, found a wood¬ 
chuck in it. He left the woodchuck in the 
trap near the path and proceeded after his 
cows. While he was gone a man who has 
been selectman of the town came along, and, 
seeing the woodchuck, cut off its tail and 
carried it off with him. It was growing 
dusk when the boy returned, and, without 
missing the chief end of his prize, he picked 
it up and carried it home. When he did 
discover his loss, his anger and astonish¬ 
ment were unbounded, and he went to the 
selectmen, found out who took the tail, and 
declared war on the thief at once.’ Who 
got the ten cents was not told. A man that 
is mean enough to cut the tail off a live 
woodchuck for the sake of cheating a boy 
out of 10 cents deserves to figure in history.” 
The common idea of the use of a mulch 
is that it retains moisture in the soil, and in 
this way benefits crops in a dry season. It 
also, if thick, prevents the growth of weeds, 
and prevents full action of r.he hot sun on 
the soil. But it does more than this. It 
acts in some cases like manure, adding fertil¬ 
ity to the soil and pushing the crop forward 
with remarkable vigor, and if it does so 
uniformly it can be made a powerful aid in 
agriculture. From our own observation we 
are convinced that the mulch is a powerful 
adjunct of potato growing. Potatoes require 
more moisture and a less temperature than 
they are apt to get during our hot summers. 
As mulching saves cultivation, it will com¬ 
mend itself strongly to our readers. The 
mulch is not lost, as it rots and goes to en¬ 
rich the soil. 
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