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Advertisements for the April Number should reach 
us by March 1st. 
. • Press of uiatter has compelled us to use fewer 
illustrations in this number than usual. You may 
confidently look for a greater number hereafter. 
Our “Answers to Correspondents” will re-appear 
in our April Number. If you have any questions on 
gardening upon which you wish more light, please 
send them in. 
___ ® l " s V a l of Seed-Time and Harvest is 24 
Uofof' /i As t us llum °er contains our annual price 
a1 , 1 unusually large number of advertise- 
', e llave added eight pages in order to give 
the usual amount of reading matter. 
n f° r Nurserymen and Florists 
ii;l', eU v!1 et V ,y tbe ,Jr enfle * d Block Company, are very- 
nice and cheap. TVe are using them. 
Advertisers are requested to notice our Prize Word 
f'liiuwo>>■ IS / 1 he most elective plan ever invented to 
imAlims Z ° l ie great publio wi th your name and 
or Quarterly Publication is much more 
valuable as an advertising medium than a weekly 
i - hat the iutter is laid aside as soon as 
a new issue arrives, 
ra^«wSv P i ri ^wi n - offeririg 0nicm SeecIs which we 
t if of 1 w eai this season. In addition to knowing 
to VSoTt fr f sh and I )ure - we have subjected them 
readily 1 tests aud KN0W that they will grow 
We make a specialty of supplying Onion and Cab¬ 
bage Seeds of the best and purest strains. While the 
prices given in our list are net, for general orders, - 
we can give special rates where large quantities of 
any one variety a,re wanted. W T e will send samples 
for you to test before purchasing if you want to 
purchase a quantity of any particular varieties. 
Our Seed Potatoes will be put in barrels holding 
■-’% bushels each when but one variety is put in a 
barrel. Parties wishing not more than three var¬ 
ieties packed separately in one barrel may have even 
bushels of two kinds, and one-half bushel of a third, 
packed, and the whole charged at barrel rates, In 
this case however you will receive but ten pecks, 
the space of the eleventh being occupied 'by pack¬ 
ing. Smaller quantities than one-lialf bushel can 
also be packed separately in boxes or barrels but 
will be charged at peck rates. Pounds, by mail only, 
are prepaid by us. Five or more pounds of different 
varieties will be packed and shipped by express or 
Freight at purchaser’s expense, at fbrty (40) per cent 
less than list prices, as it will relieve us of postage. 
ECHOES. 
“A most excellent and practical work is Tilling- 
hast’s “Seed-Time and Harvest” and all vegetable 
growers should have it. Mr. T’s card on this page 
is well worth reading, and we are confident that all* 
dealings with this gentleman will prove satisfactory. 
He is a square man and carries & level head on liis 
shoulders.”—Farm Journal. 
Blank Order sheets and envelopes, printed for 
making returns to us, will be sent free to any one 
who wnl ask lor them by postal card. They will be 
w^hl Very i p01 i Venient hy our A Sents and others who 
v ish to make frequent returns. 
qnr?iww ri ® nd A l kin r s ; on announces an edition of 
300,000 copies of the December number of the Farm 
Journal. If you have not seen it send him your ad- 
C ° Py ' AlWreSS ’ “ Fan " JournaI ' 
finin’ Our Office is now prepared to 
kmds 01 Job printing and stereotyping, at 
less than competitive prices. We invite corre¬ 
spondence with tnose desiring such work done. 
r r f ar f n0Un ? in ? a , Word Hunt to consist or the 
° f word ? T to be fo »-med from the letters in 
ME Ay !\ Harvest,” we ascertained that that 
ggSfif aw °£ d h y at l v . as copy righted by the Agents 
S; a d i f Huladelpffia, Pa. We have therefore 
cl anged our offer as elsewhere announced anci 
l efer those who wish to engage in that style of puzzle 
to the Fleiald as above. See advertisement, 
A F armer’s Paper. —We ask attention to the 
advertisement of The Practical Farmer, of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., m this issue of our paper, and recom¬ 
mend it as one of the oldest and most valuable 
agucultiu al and family papers in the country. 
Ay cause of science has received an important 
addition m the elegant Observatory which Mr H H 
W a ™ e A pr °P rietor °! the valuable Safe Kidney and 
Liver Guie, has erected at Rochester. 
The wonderful Pianoette advertised by the Mass 
Organ Co., Boston, Mass., is one of the greatest mu¬ 
sical inventions of the age, playing any tune by simp¬ 
le turning a crank. It is sold for $5.6 with a 7 Edi¬ 
tion of tunes. 
Se ed Time and Harvest ’ comes to us in its most 
attractive dress It is a Quarterly Agricultural and 
Horticultural Magazine, published at La Plume. Pa. 
edited by Isaac F. Tillinghast. It contains much 
information on grains and fruits. Strawberries 
grapes and pears embellish the autumn number 
Its articles have variety, are excellent and in¬ 
structive-designed for every one who plants a seed 
or tills a plant.—Ptactical Farmer. 
“Seed-Time and Harvest.” an illustrated Agri¬ 
cultural and Horticultural Magazine, published at 
.La, I lume, Lackawanna Comity, Pa., is on our table 
and from a cursory glance through ifcs pages we dis- 
cover much mental pabulum just suited to the har¬ 
vesting season, and of immense value to farmers and 
agriculturists throughout the country. It is edited 
with marked ability, and at its low price should 
command an immense circulation. Address the 
publishers for sample copy.—Tribune and Farmer. 
Moorestown, N. J., Aug , 18, 1881. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast, Dear Sir: I am in receipt of’ 
a copy of the Seed-Time and Harvest and bill for 
advertising in the same. So far I have received as 
many inquiries from my advertisement in yourpaper 
as from August number of the American Agricul¬ 
turist and Farm Journal, my two best advertising 
mediums. _ Let me hear from you -with bill for four 
insertions m your paper and oblige. 
Yours Respectfully, 
J. Perkins. 
nr -n o Fishkill, N. Y., Aug., 18.1881 
My Dear Sir; Seed-Time and Harvest came dulv 
to hand I am favorably impressed with it as being 
very instructive and a valuable advertising medium 
I have bad as much inquiry from my card which 
appeared in your last issue, as from any other 
paper. Wishing you every success, 
I am. yours truly. 
J. G. Burrow. 
