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Literary Mention. 
As the long winter evenings are coming 
on ;ind the farmers and gardeners who were 
too busy during the summer months to read 
a great deal, can now afford themselves a 
vacation from their hard work, it may not 
be out of place to call their attention to the 
many excellent magazines and papers now 
advertised in our columns, most of which 
are also entered in our club list on page 17, 
and will be sent for the prices named there¬ 
in. It will pay intending subscribers well 
to send for specimen copies of these papers, 
if they are unacquainted with them, at the 
same time mentioning that their advertise¬ 
ments were seen in Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest. 
A full list of the good things in all the 
agricultural papers that come to our office 
would leave us no room for anything else, 
and it must suffice to say that all have their 
good points and a selection can better be 
made by a subscriber for himself than by 
any one else for him, and an examination* 
such as we have indicated, is as good a way 
to make the selection as we know of. 
The October number of Demorest’s Magazine is, 
as usual, very entertaining and instructive. As a 
family magazine it is worthy of honorable mention, 
The present number is filled with readable articles, 
among which are “Three Days at Chamounix,” “The 
Poet Milton,” and “Rambles About Crieff.’’ All the 
articles devoted to fashion and the adornment of 
home are very suggestive, and the stories, poems, 
and various departments furnish agreeable and in¬ 
structive reading. There are some good Illustrations, 
and the frontispiece is a fine steel engraving. This 
number completes Vol. XXI. » 
Cram’s Unrivaled Family Atlas op the World 
is a large quarto 12x14 inches, with two hundred 
pages. By an ingenious arrangement of tables and 
by the use of bars of different colors and lengths, it 
teaches many valuable facts on the principle of ob 
ject lessons. We have seldom seen so good and 
comprehensive an atlas in so compact form. The 
maps of the world, of North America and the other 
continents, of the United States separately, and of 
the principal countries of Europe, are new, accurate, 
full of details and remarkably distinct. Numerous 
astronomical and statistical charts and tables are in¬ 
cluded with the maps, the size of the book is conven¬ 
ient, and there need be no hesitation in buying it. 
One of the best family newspapers on the conti¬ 
nent is the Family Herald and Weekly Star, 
which has secured an immense circulation through- 
cut the States/though published in Montreal, Canada. 
Its contents are varied in character, and there arc 
special departments for nearly every class of read¬ 
ers. The department of agriculture is very com¬ 
plete, and contains original articles from men of ex¬ 
perience. A veterinary surgeon attends to queries 
of that nature, and a “medical column” where a 
physician helps to cure the ills, that flesh is heir to, 
is a new and valuable feature. The moral tone of 
the paper is high, and it deserves what success it 
has achieyed. The publishers are The Family Her¬ 
ald Publishing Co., Montreal, Canada. 
OUR QUESTION BOX. 
Centreton, New Jersey, Sept. 3. 1885. 
Mr. Tillinghast: Dear Sir;— I have a hen house- 
60 x 16 feet divided into four compartments, two 
3x6 sashes on the front of each compartment. The 
front sloping to the southeast. Do you think that 
cabbage plants would winter over in this house, 
transplanting them just before frost ? 
Yours Truly, R. Dea. 
Our experience in wintering over cabbage 
plants is very limited. Will some of our 
friends who have had more experience 
please answer?—E d. 
Urbana, Kansas, Oct. 1, 1885. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir;—I write this to 
ask your manner of storing or keeping sweet pota¬ 
toes over winter for seed and market. I have a 
nice lot and wish to keep them over. I am well 
pleased with the result of your seeds and wish to 
remain your agent at^this place. How shall I store 
cabbage to save over winter ? N. P. Kershner. 
We do not attempt to winter sweet pota¬ 
toes in this locality, preferring to depend on 
those further south who know how. This 
question is fully answered by Mr. Stahl, on 
page 22 of this issue. 
Cabbages are most easily saved by placing 
them in rows, heads down, where the water 
cannot accumulate around them and cover 
with six inches of soil. They will come out 
fresh and sound in spring. If water stands 
among them they will rot. 
Cambridge, Md., Sept. 21, 1885. 
I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir;—The severe drought 
here is cutting crops very short. I have almost 
made up my mind to quit gardening in this locality 
and move to a more favorable place. The past four 
years have been very dry. Can you recommend ma- 
a place suitable for gardening and plant growing, 
or do you know of any person in the gardening bus¬ 
iness wishing to hire a good hand at gardening at 
a salary sufficient to support a wife and three chil¬ 
dren, if you know of any such party let me know ? 
Respectfully Yours, Albert H. Clark. 
If any"of our readers desire the services 
of an active young gardener they will please 
answer the ibore. 
