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FuV>lisliedL Quarterly 
FOK EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 25 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 25 Cents Per Agate Line. 
LA PLUME, LACK’A CO., PA„ JULY, 1881. 
Seed-Time and Harvest will hereafter 
pay particular attention to describing and 
illustrating New and Improved varieties of 
Fruits. Flowers, Vegetables, &c., and we 
earnestly invite onr friends everywhere, to 
send us reports for publication, of any¬ 
thing of this kind which they may have 
any knowledge of, or which they have 
found, upon actual trial, to merit such pub¬ 
licity. We desire to conduct this journal 
in a manner which shall prove most profit¬ 
able to all its readers, and if each will 
strive to give, as well as receive, we believe 
it may prove eminently successful in its 
undertaking. We design occupying con¬ 
siderable space in our next (October) num¬ 
bers, with reports from our readers, upon 
the New Vegetables which they have 
grown for the first time this season, in or¬ 
der to ascertain in what particular local¬ 
ities, certain varieties succeed best. While 
we may be more particularly interested in 
the things which were obtained from our 
establishment, we would also like reports 
upon new varieties from other sources, as 
our readers will want the best. Many of 
our friends have asked that Seed-Time and 
Harvest be published monthly instead of 
quarterly, but if this change is ever 
brought about, its friends and subscribers 
must help to do it. Its circulation already 
extends into every State and Tei ritory in 
the Union, and if each of our present read¬ 
ers would help a little, g^eat results would 
certainly follow. We believe it might be 
published monthly at $1.00 per year, and 
give each subscriber a premium of one dol¬ 
lars’ worth of seeds, if each present sub¬ 
scriber would act as agent in obtaining 
new names. How many will endeavor to 
do this? We will accept subscribers upon 
these terms now, with the understanding 
that it shall be a monthly, as soon as our 
present number is doubled. So if each 
will send one new subscriber, the work 
will be done. Upon receipt of the dollar 
we will enter die subscriber’s name and 
send him a certificate for the amount in 
seeds, which may be returned and the se¬ 
lection made at any time within a year. 
But as we cannot count upon a unanimous 
action, some will have to send in several in 
order to cover the total deficiency of 
others. 
Please Report. We particularly desire 
reports from all who have tried them, up¬ 
on the Belle, Defiance, and Luxury pota¬ 
toes, La Plume Chestnut Celery, Lacka- 
wanna Cauliflower, Winona Dwarf and 
Nicollet Big Gem Peas, Red River Sweet. 
North Star Yellow Dent Field, and Squaw 
Corn, and Golden Marrow Pumpkin. We 
will be very thankful to all of our friends, 
who try any of the above this season, for 
a report of the same by October 1st. We 
are particularly anxious to find how these 
new varieties conduct themselves in wide¬ 
ly different localities. 
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—Salt has been found of great benefit to 
young pear and apple trees, especially when 
planted upon sandy soils. A gentleman of 
our acquaintance says his trees bore largely 
every year but more than one-half the pears 
would fall off before they were ripe. He 
took fish and pork pickle and sprinkled a 
few bucketsful to a distance of ten feet from 
the trees. The result was the trees have 
since borne so full that the limbs have bro¬ 
ken down with the weight. We have known 
young trees, set in poor, sandy soil, to take 
on new life and vigor after receiving a 
sprinkling of salt upon the ground. 
—“The soil is the source from which we 
derive all that constitutes wealth; without 
it we would have no agriculture, no manu¬ 
factures, no commerce.” 
—The more available plant food the soil 
contains, the more profit there will be in 
working it. The most profitable labor a 
farmer expends is in enriching his land for 
future use. 
