main stay of the country, after all; but 
probably few people realize how much of the 
actual wealth and consequent importance 
of the country come from him. Not only 
do the merchants of America depend on 
him for prosperous business, but they and 
their employes, the manufactures and 
and their legions of workingmen, the 
working forces of the railroads, and the 
vast army of food-consumers of every kind 
must be supported by him; and only after 
they are fed is he at liberty to send his 
crops abroad .—Philadelphia Bulletin. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
make it much more valuable by soliciting 
subscriptions from their friends, many of 
whom no doubt, never yet saw a copy. 
We will repay liberally~all who will exert 
themselves a little in this direction. 
The Spring is here—the delicate-footed May, 
With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, 
And with it comes a thirst to be away 
In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours, 
A feeling like the worm’s awakening wings, 
Wild for companionship with swifter things. < 
— N. P. Willis. • 
We again invite our friends to contrib¬ 
ute items of interest for publication. Why 
not let the light of your experience shine 
for the benefit of your fellow passengers 
in the journey of life? We venture to say 
there is scarcely a reader who could not 
contribute some item which would prove 
of profit or pleasure to our readers. Please 
let us hear from you. 
SUBSCRIPTION 60 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Link. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL. IV., NO. V. WHOLE NO., XIX 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., MaY, 1883. 
For lo, the Winter is past, the rain is over and 
gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of 
the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the tur' 
tie is heard in our land.— Bible. 
The Call for copies of our April Num¬ 
ber which contained a prize offer to boys 
for gardening, has been so great that the 
supply was exhausted and hundreds of ap¬ 
plications received since. We regret that 
we have not room to repeat the particulars 
of the offer in this number, but it will 
probably reach its readers too late to en¬ 
able them to successfully compete this 
time. If the contest proves as interesting 
as we anticipated, we shall no doubt re¬ 
peat it next season early enough to give all 
a chance to compete. 
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We have no reason to complain of 
lack of support in the way of subscriptions 
to Seed-Time and Harvest, (its sworn av¬ 
erage circulation, counting each and every 
issue since January 1882, having been over 
22,000 copies per issue.) yet we realize 
that its present subscribers might help to 
We are frequently asked by our 
patrons where they can obtain certain ar¬ 
ticles, many of which are advertised in 
Seed-Time and Harvest, and quite often 
people send to us for things advertised by 
others. Now, we like to accommodate, 
and nearly always send on the order to the 
advertisers, but, as a general thing, any 
other person can get goods of our adver¬ 
tisers just as cheaply and promptly as we 
can, and we therefore advise sending the 
money to them and not to us, as when we 
forward the order we are at the expense of 
postage and get only thanks in return. 
Advertisers who have given Seed-Time 
and Harvest a fair trial generally admit 
that there are few mediums published 
which give so good returns for the amount 
of money invested as it does. This is due, 
we suppose, firstly, to the fact that our 
readers are, as a class, wide awake men and 
women who have plenty of money to 
spend, and secondly, because there is such 
a host of them. To induce a trial we will 
offer any responsible man or firm who has 
never used our colums a good discount on 
a trial ‘‘ad” for our next four issues. Please 
send copy of your advertisement for es¬ 
timate and we will give special rates which 
cannot fail to pay you. 
