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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Lock Haven, Pa., Dec. 7th, 1882. 
I-aac F. TUlinghast; Dear Sir,—I write to in¬ 
form you of my last summer’s gardening. The 
Early Ohio Potatoes did well and all the other 
seeds also. The Early York Cabbage I think 
the handsomest I ever saw. I should have sent 
to you for l*te cabbage plants but a gainer 
here told me he had a lot of fine plants he would 
sell for $2.00 per 1000, so I took 2000 plants and 
I believe I had every kind of cabbavre there is 
grown in this state or the next, but fi*r cabbage l 
don’t think 1 cut 100 heads. [They could not 
have been from our ‘‘Mixed Cabbage” seeds. Ed.] 
I promised once to give you a little story about 
that same man and turnip :-etds. Two years ago 
last summer I wanted him to j in me in sending 
to you for turnip seeds. He said no, “he could 
get it cheaper in town and just as good.” Well, 
I had very nice turnips from the seeds [ received 
from you. He sowed about f wo acres aud 
it came on fine. I said to him one day, “h< w 
does your turnips come on?” “O, I did not get 
one!” said he, for what [ sowed was MUSTARD!” 
Cheap seed a great saving indeed! 
I shall try early cabbage again next spring, 
shall need about 5000 plauts. What cau you 
supply them for that have been wintered over? 
[We are wintering none. Better plant the seeds 
in February and grow them yourself. En.] My 
ground is not very good. What do you think of 
guano, or ground bone, and how shall 1 use it? 
Yours Respectfully, John Ingram. 
[We use Lister Bros.’ ammoniated/Bone Phos¬ 
phate largely. The safest 1 "way to apply it, 
and we think the best way is to scatter it broad¬ 
cast and harrow it in. It is hard to real ze how 
powerful it is, and if used in the hill we are apt 
to get it too strong and injure the young plants 
more than we benefit them. Ed ] 
AN “INFLUENTIAL” WOMAN. 
Last winter we inserted in several papers a 
large advertisement offe.ing £eed-Time and 
Harvest in combination with purchaser’s choice 
of over fifty standard kinds of vegetable seeds. 
Late in the season we received the following let. 
ter written on a scrap of paper just 3\ by 4£ in¬ 
ches in dimensions; 
“Dear Sir: Please send some of all your seed 
mentioned in this adveriisement and I can intro¬ 
duce them aud you can find ready sale for them 
here as I have much influence here so by send¬ 
ing them 10 me tree you may gain a great deal. 
1 am your friend, Mrs.- - 
This was enclosed in a self addressed envelope 
belongirg to 8no;lor firm, 'turned, repasted, and 
directed to us, but left unsealed and forwarded 
under,. 1 a one cent stamp, ail of which weLt to 
show plainly the mighty “ii fluence” which our 
fair correspondent must exert. The “influence” 
evidently dropped out of ti e unsealed letter 
before it reached us, however, for when we had 
to pay the five-cents due on the unpaid letter, 
(postage is double if not paid in advance,) we 
did not feel influenced to send two or three dol¬ 
lars worth of seeds on that order. 
Bloomington, Md. Dec. 4, 1882. 
Please be kind enough to publish in January 
Number, (to decide a question here) which of the 
following kinds of chickens are the best layers, 
and about how many each kind will lay in a 
year, Langshans or Plymouth Rocks. Your ar¬ 
ticle on celery in November Number is worth to 
me the whole year’s subscription to your maga¬ 
zine even it it cost $2.00 per year. By comply¬ 
ing w ith my request you will oblige a subscriber. 
H. N. Walters. 
This is really about as]hard a question to an¬ 
swer as it would be to ask what kind of fish you 
could catch the most of in a day. The results 
might vary greatly with different individuals 
and under different circumstances. Both are 
large bodied fowls, profitable for meat as well as 
*We have had but one year’s experience 
with'the Langshans and were well pleased with 
them. The cocks are lordly looking fellows, and 
their prolonged crow is worth $2.00 per year to 
any farm. We shall be pleased to publish egg 
reports fnm’ any of our subscribers which will 
give direct evidence upon the question of our cor¬ 
respondent. 
Dunbar, Pa., Dec. 6, 1882. 
Mr. Isaac F. Tillinghast, 
Dear Sir, I wuuld be 
glad if you would give an opinion, (or rather r 
conviction from your own experience,) in Sefj 
Time and Harvest as to the best manner s, 
cutting potatoes" to plant. have been^cutting 
to one eye and dropping the pieces about eight 
itches apart, using about 17 bu hels per acre and 
getting about 140jjbushel3 per acre. I planted 6£ 
acres of Peerless^im(that way B last’year, using 
about 300 lbs.^of Baugh’s ^Potato Phosphate in 
the row, after first putting a little dirt on the 
seed, then covering again. 
Very Truly Yours, C. H. Kimball. 
We have planted miy potatoes in a v^ry 
similar manner wit-b O ood results, but now that 
ihe Colorado BecC .4 arj 30 destructive we pre- 
