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An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
TOR 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. VI, NO. IX. WHOLE NO., XLVII. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., Sept,, 1885. 
Potted Strawberry Plants. At 
any time after this date we shall be able to 
ship thoroughly rooted, potted layers of 
Cornelia, Daniel Boone, Atlantic, Prince 
of Berries, May King, Manchester, James 
Vick, Longfellow and Sharpless, an excel¬ 
lent selection of the most promising new 
varieties, at 50 cents per dozen, or $2.50 per 
hundred, packed in light baskets, by ex¬ 
press. A few of these set this month, on 
good soil, will produce hundreds of good 
plants for next spring’s setting at a less 
cost than they can be purchased at next 
spring. 
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. 
Agents* Stationery* We are now 
filling orders for Letter Heads and Envel¬ 
opes printed in two colors especially for 
the use of our “Plant Agents.” We fur¬ 
nish, prepaid, by mail, 100 of each, (letter 
heads and envelopes to match) or 300 of 
either, for $1.00. We will send samples 
free to any agent whodesires them, and we 
would be pleased to have all use them. 
Send along your orders. 
Tillinghast’s Cabbage Pest Pow¬ 
der. On another page will be found an 
advertisement of an article which every 
cabbage grower in the Union has been look¬ 
ing for in vain, for years, and having found 
it at last, we feel like throwing up our hat 
and shouting “Eureka.” The cabbage 
worms must go. That vexed question is- 
settled. On actual trial on our grounds a 
small sprinkling of this powder on the 
affected parts, the tender leaves and form¬ 
ing heads, completely cleared them from 
the disgusting worms. A few hours aftei^ 
the first application, nine tenths of the 
worms were dead, most of them dropping 
to the ground or to the lower leaves. The 
compound is of our own invention and of 
our own manufacture, so we know it con¬ 
tains nothing which would poison a person 
if used on cabbage heads the day before 
they are to be eaten. It is almost entirely 
composed of vegetable substances and is 
very light and bulky, a quart bag being re¬ 
quired to hold a pound. It will therefore 
go a great ways, and on trial will be found 
we think, the cheapest as well as the best 
thing ever devised for the extermination of 
nearly all garden insects. 
Cabbage Wanted. Under date of 
Aug. 14, Mr. E. E. Yonge, Columbus, Ga. r 
asks us to kindly give him the name and 
address of several large cabbage growers in 
the Upper Mississippi Valley, say in Miss¬ 
ouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana or some ad¬ 
joining state. He wishes to purchase in 
carload lots. This has set us to thinking 
that if we only knew which of our agents 
and subscribers have large quantities to 
spare, and in what other sections it may be 
wanted, we might be the means of greatly 
benefiting both buyer and seller. If all who 
read this notice of either class, will at once 
make a brief report to us we will publish 
their names and address in full in our next 
issue under the headings, “Cabbage Want¬ 
ed” and Cabbage for Sale,” without charge. 
A Ladies Department. In response 
to frequent suggestions from our lady 
friends, we take pleasure in announcing 
that we have arranged to begin a “Ladies 
Department” in our next issue, which will 
be edited by an experienced housekeeper, 
who will no doubt make her department 
very instructive and valuable to all inter- 
