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ISSUED QUARTERLY. 
ISAAC I\ TILLINGHAST 
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 
TERMS, Tweny-five Cts. per year, or, 
5 copies for $1. 
Advertising Rates: Each insertion, 
$30. per page, $15. per one-half page, 
$8. per one-fourth page, and 25 cents per 
line, nonpareil, for less space. 
Address all communications, 
SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa. 
JULY, 1880. 
EXAMINE 0 UR PRIZES . 
On the inside cover of this issue, will be 
found some special offers to which vve 
earnestly invite the attention of every read¬ 
er . Please consider that it is to your inter¬ 
est, as well as ours, that we secure a large 
list of subscribers. The larger our subscrip¬ 
tion list becomes, the more time and money 
we can devote to the improvement of our 
magazine. We have begun its publication 
with the firm belief that we may make it a 
success, and earnestly ask the cooperation 
of every reader that our labors may be 
crowned with success. Yet we are aware 
that some other incentive is necessary in 
order to procure the assistance of all our 
readers, and to this end these prizes are of¬ 
fered. It is not probable that we shall re¬ 
ceive many or large clubs. Indeed we have 
known of several similar schemes in which 
nearly every successful competitor received 
nearly, or quite as much, in return as the 
amount sent in by him on subscriptions. 
Any person who will devote one months 
time to canvassing, will without doubt 
receive better wages for his time than he 
can command elsewhere. The Premium 
Articles are all first class, and well worth 
the value claimed for them. The Happy 
Thought Range, is we believe, the best 
Kitchen Range manufactured. We have 
had one in use in our family for two years 
and truly say, we never saw its equal in 
utility or appearance. 
The Watch is one of the finest made by 
the American Watch Co., of Waltham, 
Mass. What more need be said of it? 
The Dictionary is a household necessity. 
The Home and Farm, newspaper has by 
its merits attained a circulation of over One 
Hundred Thousand copies in less than five 
years of publication. It is acknowledged to 
be one of the best and cheapest papers 
published in the Union. It contains 48 
large columns, and is published twice each 
month. By sending us only $2. you are 
certain to get this for a year. Sample 
copies, of each publication, will be fur¬ 
nished free to all who wish them for rais¬ 
ing clubs. 
Some will ask, will the seeds be good? One 
of the main objects in making these offers 
is to get the chance to place packages of our 
seeds in new hands for trial, with the hope 
of thus securing permanent customers by 
pleasing them. Can we then afford to send 
anything but the very best seeds to these 
subscribers? 
These premiums are open to all competi¬ 
tors, to close positively on Sept. 25th, 1880. 
-- 
At the close of another plant season we 
wish to make a few general remarks to our 
friends, who have kindly favored us with 
their orders. It has been our intention to 
serve all in a square, honest manner, and 
to this purpose we have as far as possible 
given our personal attention to the filling of 
all orders. Our friends will see however, 
that it is utterly impossible for us to pull 
and pack every plant with our own hands. 
At certain times we have orders for, 
perhaps, fifty thousand plants on hand, 
which are to be got off at the earliest pos¬ 
sible moment to a score of different cus¬ 
tomers. The pulling and counting into 
bunches of one hundred plants, has in ma¬ 
ny instances of necessity been left to boys, 
whom we found sometimes rather careless. 
It may be, therefore, that occasionally an 
order has fallen short in number or quality 
of what it should have been. In all such 
cases if complaint is made we will be found 
ready and willing to make ample amends. 
