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SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
cost him but 10 cents. How many will try 
it? 
Some Oat Statistics. A cousin of 
ours, who some years ago emigrated from 
Pennsylvania to the Puget Sound country, 
in Washington Territory, and occupies a 
ranch adjoining one of our cabbage seed 
farms, has recently submitted the following 
figures concerning his oat harvest for the 
past season. His own private crop con¬ 
sisted of some 240 acres, which produced 
an average of 90 bushels per acre, making 
over 21500 bushels of oats. They are har¬ 
vested with a self-binding reaper driven by 
three horses and threshed in the field with 
steam thresher. After securing his own 
crop he threshed for the accommodation 
of his neighbors, in all over 70,000 bushels. 
His best day’s threshing was a run of 
3500 bushels, or 360 bushels per hour 
for the actual running time. Our read¬ 
ers will see at a glance, that on lands 
which will show such results as this with 
common field crops, cabbage seeds, which 
require so much labor and two year’s use of 
land for each crop, cannot be sold for a 
song. We regard 25 cents per ounce as 
cheap. And we are pleased to know that 
those who have tested them and measure 
their value by results invariably agree with 
us. 
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Literary Mention. • 
Mr. William Crozier, bas been known for many 
years to the foremost farmers of the country as a 
practical worker in agriculture, mindful always of 
improvement and distinguished for remarkable 
success in dairying and rcot-farming. Peter Hen¬ 
derson long ago acquired fame as a seedsman and 
as the author of several works of great value to 
progressiye farmers. These two gentlemen have 
recently given the public a new book entitled, “How 
the Farm Pays.” a work of nearly 400 large pages 
on which are discussed the various questions pre¬ 
sented in practical agriculture, including horticult¬ 
ure. Much of the discussion is collo^fflal but none 
the less valuable. In fact it is reasonable to presume 
that this character will be more acceptable to or¬ 
dinary readers, because it gives plain expression to 
ideas and is free from abstruse terms that some¬ 
times puzzle the brain of farmers unaccustomed to 
labored disquisitions upon agricultural topics. The 
book takes a wide range of subjects, all closely con¬ 
nected with the farm, garden or orchard, so there is 
hardly a matter of interest upon which there is not 
something said; besides, there are numerous illus¬ 
trations which add materially to the value of the 
book. There is also a carefully-prepared index* 
making reference easy. The price of the book is 
$2.50, for which it will be sent, postpaid, by Peter 
Henderson & Co., 35 & 37 Cortlandt St., New York. 
Or it will be sent from this office and a year's sub¬ 
scription to Seed-Time and Harvest included, at 
the same price. 
We have not noticed that any one of the maga¬ 
zines announces a list of contributors approaching 
inability, reputai ion and power to interest and in¬ 
struct, that which The Youth's Companion an¬ 
nounces of writers actually engaged for 1885. Last 
year it offered $3,000 in prizes for good short stories. 
It secured not only the stories, but many new writers 
whose work will be hereafter utilized. And the 
price, only $1.75 a year, will cover a subscription 
from now until the close of the year 1885. Sample 
copies are mailed free, by the publishers, ferry 
Mason & Co., Boston. 
The Popular Science Monthly. This elegant 
repository of Scientific research needs no eulogium 
when the names of its publishers are announced, for 
it is known that the firm of D. Appleton & Co., 
never do things by halves. Whatever appears from 
their press is finished, and the plain and substantial 
outside of the Popular Science Monthly is but an 
index of the solid and instructive nature of its con¬ 
tents. The January number now before us contains 
fifteen articles by some of the most eminent writers 
of the present time. Among them we notice the 
names of Professor John Tyndall, Prof. W. K. 
Brooks, Prof. Horace M. Kennedy, Herbert Spencer, 
Dr. W. Breitenbach, Robt. W. Edis, F. R. S., and 
others. Nearly 2000 pages of choicest scientific 
matter per year in a popular form cannot be obtain¬ 
ed for tne money in any other way. 50 cents per 
number, $5 00 per year. Published by D. Appleton 
& Co., N. Y. 
John B. Alden’s, Literary Revolution , though, 
possibly, not making so large a “noise” in the world 
as three or four years ago when its remarkable work 
was new to the public, is really making more sub¬ 
stantial progress than ever before. A noticeable 
item is the improved quality of the books issued* 
Guizot’s famous “History of France,” not sold, till 
recently, for much less than $50.00. is put forth in 
eight small octavo vo'umns, ranking with the hand¬ 
somest ever issued from American printing presses, 
including the 426 full page original illustrations, 
and is sold for $7.00. Rawlinson’s celebrated 
"Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern 
World,” is produced in elegant form, with all the 
maps and illustrations, reduced in price from $18.00 
to $2.75. These are but representatives of an im¬ 
mense list of standard works, ranging in price from 
two cents to nearly $20.00, which are set forth in a 
descriptive catalogue of 100 pages, and which is sent 
free to every applicant It certainly is worth the 
cost of a postal card to the puolisher, John B. Aldkn* 
393 Pearl Street, New York. 
How to Build, Furnish A'-d Decorate, is the 
title of a large, atlas sized volume of some 200 pages, 
beautifully bound in cloth, and containing among 
other things, upwards of one hundred plans for va¬ 
rious buildings, principally dwellings and farm build¬ 
ings, with finely engraved elevations and descriptive 
text. Some forty pages are devoted to decorating 
and furnishing, plans for halls, dining-rooms ana 
the like being fully delineated. This book is not 
one man’s idea, but is the embodiment of plans 
furnished by an assoc ation of architects which 
makes it much more valuable than if written by one 
person. It is published by the Co-operative Building- 
Plan Association, whose advertisement appears on 
page 30. 
