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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 60 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, SO Cents Per Lin*. 
Entered at the post-office as secoDd Glass matter. 
nouncing that we have arranged with Mr. 
Frank S. Finn of Manchester, N.. H., to- 
conduct a Puzzle Department which, we 
trust, will be appreciated by all our young 
friends. Mr. Film has, for the past twenty 
years, been contributing poems, sketches, 
essays, serials, dialogues, puzzles, etc., to- 
the press of various cities and will no doubt 
make his department interesting and in¬ 
structive. 
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VOL. IV., NO. VII. WHOLE NO.. XXI. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., July, 1S83. 
“Over and over again 
The brook through the meadow floivs; 
All over and over again 
The ponderous mill wheel goes ‘ 
Once doing will not suffice, 
Though doing be not in vain; 
And a blessing failing us once or twice, 
Mag come if we try aga in ” 
WE ARE NOT SENDING SEED-TlME AND 
Harvest to any one with the intention of 
following it with a bill for subscription. If 
you receive it that is proof that we judge 
you entitled to it. Next month we will 
designate by figures opposite your name on 
the wrapper, the time at which your sub¬ 
scription ends according to our books. If 
you find written ‘'12—83”, your time is out 
with the next December number. If “1-84”, 
it closes with the January number, and so 
on, “2—84” for next February, “3—84” for 
March, etc., the first figure showing the 
month, and the second the year with which 
our visits will cease. We hope all will 
make a note of this and renew without miss¬ 
ing any numbers. 
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TO INTEREST AND INSTRUCT, as well US to 
furnish employment, amusement and pleas¬ 
ure for the boys and girls is a leading aim of 
Seed-Time and Harvest. When we were a 
boy, which, by the way, was not very long- 
ago, we eagerly awaited the monthly arriv¬ 
al of Grace Greenwood’s Little Pilgrim , and 
later Our Young Folks and other juvenile 
publications, and no part of them furnished 
more real recreation than the puzzle depart¬ 
ment. We have not yet entirely out-grown 
our taste for these pastimes, but, of course, 
do not get as much time to devote to them 
now. We, however, take pleasure in an¬ 
Boldly sings tlie young heart, but scorchingly shines- 
the sun; 
’Tis the summer now, ’tis mid-day heat, the work- 
life is begun: 
But hope runs high, while the steadfast eye, 
Fixed on the goal of fame, 
Heeds not the glare, for he who will dare, 
Must win a name. 
Subscriptions are always in order, Are 
we not making this magazine worth to you 
much more than it has cost you? Then why 
not show it to your neighbors, and by induc¬ 
ing them to subscribe, benefit them and us. 
and thus indirectly benefit yourself? 
What to do when Goods are not 
as you ordered or expected. 
The following, which we clip from Mr. 
Root's “ Gleanings in Bee Culture hits the 
nail so squarely on the head that we copy 
it for the benefit of our patrons who may 
imagine that we penned it for their especial 
benefit: 
As most of my life has been spent in buying as 
well as selling goods, and as I believe I am generally 
considered a desirable customer, I think perhaps a 
few words from me here may be helpful. When you 
order, make your order plain; and when you order 
from a catalogue, copy the name of the article from 
the catalogue, in the very words used by the cata¬ 
logue, and give price. Be especially careful to give 
the price, as the price often gives the clew to what 
is wanted, when the writing is so bad or so brief that 
it could not be guessed at otherwise. If 3-011 use the 
same terms the maker of the goods uses, any mis¬ 
take made must surely be his fault. Well, after you. 
get your goods, if they are not satisfactory, write at 
once to the shipper, and tell plainly what the trouble- 
is, also stating just how much rebate .you think you 
ought to have, to make it all fair. If he is a fair- 
man, and you yourself are a fair man, the matter- 
can usually be closed up at once; whereas, if you 
make a long story of it, without stating definitely 
what is \\ anted, he may conclude your custom is 
| more bother than profit, and pay no attention to it, 
I Large business bouses, as a rule, do not often write 
