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An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
La PLUME, LACK’A CO., PA., NOVEMBER, 1882. 
The fitful breeze sweeps down the winding lane, 
With gold and crimson leaves before it flying; 
Its gusty laughter has no sound of pain, 
But in the lulls it sinks to gentle sighing, 
And mourns the Summer's early broken spell: 
“ Farewell, street Summer, • 
Rosy, blooming Summer, 
■Sweet farewell!" 
Ripening hang the nuts 
Upon the laden boughs; the clusters brown 
Of russet hazels; the spiked bursting husks 
Of polished chestnuts, and the teeming store 
Of mellow walnuts. Autumn-tide hath come. 
And pours from out her over-flowing horn 
Her welcome blessings on the grateful Earth! 
The matter upon our eleventh page is 
from Col. Ingersol’s speech to farmers. 
Would it not be well if all his ideas were 
as sound as those? 
The subscription price of Seed-Time 
and Harvest is 50 cents per year. We 
shall try to make the publication well worth 
that amount and shall expect subscribers 
to pay it. We earnestly invite every one 
of our present readers to exert themselves 
a little in our behalf. A good club can 
easily be raised in every neighborhood, and 
if you, reader, will collect the names and 
send them from your locality, we will pay 
you well for all your trouble. Particulars 
may be had upon application, or may be 
found in our October number. 
To Adv ertisers. We believe our charge 
for advertising space in Seed-Time and 
Harvest, 80 cents per line, to be as reason¬ 
able as that of any other journal in the Un¬ 
ion, character and circulation considered, 
and many who have given it a fair test are 
of the same opinion. To make it pay its 
way at so low a subscription price we 
should carry at least eight pages of adver¬ 
tisements. To any advertisers who think 
our price for space too high we will make 
the following proposition: We will insert 
for any reliable party for 8 months and 
compute the account at the low price of ten 
cents per inch for each 1000 copies actually 
mailed. We will at the end of the time 
give P. O. receipts and a sworn statement 
in proof of actual circulation if desired. 
This is a fair and honest offer and if it will 
not pay you to invest ten cents in an inch 
advertisement in 1000 copies of Seed-Time 
and Harvest it will not pay you to adver¬ 
tise anywhere at any price. Will you give 
us a trial upon these conditions? 
Please read the following testimonial: 
Augusta, Ga, Oct. 11,1882. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast, 
Dear Sir: As an advertising medium I have 
found Seed-Time and Harvest equal, if not superior 
to any agricultural magazine published, and I ad¬ 
vertise extensively. In subject matter it embraces 
the cream— practical, instructive, high-toned, moral. 
Truly Yours. J. P. H. Brown. 
“God bless the man who sows the wheat. 
Who finds us milk, and fruit, and meat', 
May his purse be heavy, his heart be light. 
His cattle and corn, and all, go right. 
God bless the seeds his hands let fall. 
For the Farmer he must feed us all." 
Hon. Geo. Geddes thinks the time to 
apply plaster to clover is after the plants 
have made some growth, say after wheat 
harvest on clover sown in spring. He 
thinks that the plaster acts directly upon 
the leaf on which it is sprinkled. In sup¬ 
port of this idea he claims to have selected 
a plant having three branches of very equal 
and uniform growth, each about four inches 
in height and standing out alike from the 
root. On the leaves of one of these branch¬ 
es a little ground plaster was carefully ap - 
plied with a pen-knife. In three days rain 
came. In a few weeks the leaves and stalks 
of the plastered branch were nearly twice 
as large and rank as those on the same plant 
not plastered. Is not this subject worthy 
of further investigation? 
The spring-time longings are past and gone. 
The passions of summer no longer are known. 
The harvest is gathered, and autumn stands, 
Serenely thoughtful, with folded hands. 
