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SEED-TIME-AH© HARVEST, 
The Seedsman’s Relation to the 
Farmers. 
BY J. A. EVERITT. 
It is becoming more manifest year by 
year, as our country increases in population, 
and its agricultural resources are develop¬ 
ed, that the seedsman is an absolute neces¬ 
sity to the American farmer. No other 
country equals ours in the area devoted to 
agricultural pursuits, or the extent or vari¬ 
ety of our productions; and no other presents 
a wider field for the occupation of the seeds¬ 
men, who have increased from none, when 
our country was a narrow strip by the sea 
one hundred years ago, to hundreds at the 
present day, when we number two scores 
of empires all joined in one band; each one 
on the constant watcli for some new grain 
or vegetable exceeding its parent in. ear¬ 
liness of maturity, weight, color, form, 
flavor, or productiveness, and ever ready to 
herald such a discovery to all parts, from 
Maine to Oregon, thus enabling all who 
will to partake of and share the benefits 
arising from the discovery. Without the 
seedsman acting in this capacity, our best 
grains or vegetables would never have been 
known except in the immediate neighbor¬ 
hood where originated, and their full value 
never have been realized. Of what compar¬ 
atively insignificant value would have been 
the Early Rose Potato, which came at a 
time when new life and vigor was so sadly 
needed in this crop, if no enterprising seeds¬ 
man had stood ready with Ids money and 
time to advertise it and introduce it through¬ 
out the length and breadth of the land; or 
later, who besides the originator and his 
neighbors would have known and shared 
the advantages of the wonderful Martin 
Amber Wheat, which not only makes pos¬ 
sible an increase of 5 to 10 bushels on every 
acre grown, but a saving of one bushel on 
every acre sown, if they had not been told 
of it by the seedsmen? In fact, the remotest 
corners of every continent and island con¬ 
tributed to their store that which is of value, 
and the vegetable kingdom everywhere is 
drawn upon. The seedsman’s arid farmer’s 
interest- are identical: the prosperity of one 
means the prosperity of the other, and no 
farmer is more prosperous than he who ia 
ever ready to invest in a really good article, 
of which there are some produced every 
year. We are well aware that many times 
the buyer is disappointed in varieties from 
which he expected much. If every intend¬ 
ing purchaser were to look at the satisfaction 
that new things introduced in the past 
have given, he could very correctly judge 
of what may be expected from the parties’ 
present and future promises, and thus 
would compel unscrupulous dealers to with¬ 
draw from business. 
! It you love Rare Flowers, chnic- 
llEAUEn ; est only , address ELLIS BROTHERS, 
Keene, N. H. It will astonish and please. FREE. 
NEW 
Annual' free. 
EARLY WHITE PRIZE POTATO. 
726 bus. per acre. New and true Sbbds ! 
$36TO in Prizes. Our “Seed and Plant 
free. Geo. 11. ColviB, Dalton, Pa. 
PLANTS! PLANTS!! 
FOR SALE—a few thousand choice plants: Gregg 
and Mammoth Cluster Raspberries, price $1© per 
thousand delivered at depot, cash. Address, 
AUGUSTUS BAKER, 
8-4 Port Dickinson, Broome Co., N. IT. 
If you want to tony a 
FARM OR COUNTRY SEAT 
in the mild and beautiful climate of 
Maryland or the South, 
WRITE TO 
JT- li- HANNA., 
75 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, Md., 
for free information. 5- 
D| OBC01TEIDV a valuable Fruit, succeeds on 
all soils, and is a profitable 
|| fruit to grow for market. Two dozen plants by 
mail $1.00. Descriptive price list free. 
DELOS STAPLES, 
2-4 West Sebewa, Ionia Co., mich. 
THE GRANGER FAMILY FRUIT & VEGETABLE 
EVAPORATORS. 
$3.50, $6.00, and $10.00. 
Send for circular. EASTERN MAN- 
UFACT’G CO., 268 S. Fifth St. Phil’a. 
Seeds Given Away! 
A PACKAGE Mixed Flower Seeds (400 kinds', with 
Park's Floral Guide, all for 2 stamps. Tell all 
your friends. G. W. Park, Fanettsburg. Pa. 
JEgp"Write now. This notice will appear but twice. 
COTTON PLANTER’S 
SEED STORE. 
Improved Cotton Seed a Specialty, Millo Maize, 
Brazilian Flour Corn. Full assortment of Field and 
Cotton Seed. 
COTTON PLANTER’S ALMANAC 
and Seed Catalogue for 885, sent free on application. 
F. M. DUNCAN, Box 12, Dallas, Ga. 
