take it to heart badly enough to part com¬ 
pany with us on this score. Mistakes will 
creep in where you least expect them, and 
no one who has thereby been disappointed 
can regret it more deeply than we, for you 
know our bread and butter and the shoes to 
protect five pairs of little feet are all to be 
paid for by our patrons, whom to displease 
by palming off cucumber seed for muskmei- 
ons, may be to lose. So please give us an¬ 
other trial and we will endeavor to call 
things by their right names hereafter, and 
thus avoid everything of the nature of a 
•summer complaint. 
Our Seed and Plant Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation now numbers 1382 members. 
These agencies are scattered all over the 
Union. We believe that Seed-Time and 
Harvest is regularly sent to all of them. 
Hence, we shall sometimes use its columns 
for the purpose of talking to them instead 
of sending direct letters. We are endeav¬ 
oring to keep posted as fully as possible in 
regard to the workings of each agent. 
We desire to protect the interests of all 
who are doing their duty in this business, 
and do not appoint a second applicant in 
any town so long as our recorded agent 
there desires to retain the position. We 
have opened a set of books, in which each 
of these agents is given a page under his 
number, similar to a ledger page, and 
whenever we receive any kind of a report 
concerning his business a note of it is en¬ 
tered on his page for future reference. We 
have some enrolled from whom we have 
not heard a word for months. We wish all 
such would at least drop us a postal saying 
that they do or do not desire to keep their 
territory, as the case may be. Then when 
we get an application for the agency from 
other persons in those places, as we very 
often do, we shall know what action to 
take. If there are any of our agents, or 
others who are situated so as to become 
agents, who did not read the article on pages 
28, 29 and 30 of our July number, they 
should hunt it up and read it, for it fully 
■explains the objects of this association. We 
have lately been thinking that it would be 
a nice thing if all our agents would use let¬ 
ter heads and envelopes so printed as to 
show their connection with this agency to 
all their correspondents With the idea of 
supplying tli^se in view, we have lately 
purchased a large lot of paper and envelopes 
from the manufactures at such favorable 
rates that we shall be able to print No. 
6 letter heads with the agent's name and 
post office address and the number of his 
agency, and mail to each 100 sheets for f.O 
cents, or 300 sheets for $1.00. 
Although this is probably less thaE many 
of our friends are paying for the blank let¬ 
ter paper at* their stores, we will print 
them handsomely in two colors and send 
them postpaid at above net cost. Also of 
envelopes to match, we have selected a 
a smooth, stout. No. 6. manilla envelope 
which we will also print in two colors and 
mail 100 for 50 cents, or 300 for $1.00. 
In both the above we shall use the same 
wording for each applicant, changing only 
the name and No. of the agent and Post 
Office address to suit each. In c tse parties 
desire envelopes or letter heads printed 
from copy of their own wording, we shall 
supply not less than 250 sheets of paper, 
printed, for $1.00, and 250envelops, printed, 
for $1.00. We cannot set up new forms 
and do jobs which amount to less than $ 1.00, 
out these agency jobs being nearly alike 
and consequently less work in getting ready 
to print, we will do for 50 cents as above 
and we particularly request that every one 
of our agents who has not already on hand 
a quantity of printed stationary, at once 
send us an order. We shall have more time 
to devote to such work now during the 
next two months than later when our 
hands are all busy at gettingout catalogues 
and putting up seeds. Let us hear prompt¬ 
ly from all and we will let the world hear 
more of this Puget Sound Seed and Plant' 
Growers’ Association in the near future 
than it has heard in the past. 
Choice Seed Wheat. We have two 
hundred bushels of new Martin’s Amber, 
the best bald winter wheat ever introduced 
in this country. Our crop contains no 
cockle, chess, rye or other foul stuff what¬ 
ever. Price 1.50 per bushel net. Bags 25 
cents each, extra, for each two bushels. 
