Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR T! LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Lins. 
Entered at the post-office as second olasa matter. 
VOL. IV., NO. VIII. WHOLE NO.. XXII. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., August, 1883. 
“New occasions teach new duties; time makes an¬ 
cient good uncouth. 
They must upward still and onward, who would 
keep abreast of truth. 
Lo! before us gleam her camp-fires; we ourselves 
must pilgrims be; 
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the 
desperate winter sea. 
Nor attempt the future's portals with the past's 
blood-rusted key.” 
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? 
To Cabbage Growers.—The book 
which we advertise to be sent to any one 
interested in growing cabbages on condi¬ 
tion that they will remit us the price—40 
cents—after reading if they deem it worth 
that amount, is a new edition of the “Man¬ 
ual of Vegetable Plants.” The publication 
has been delayed longer than anticipated 
but all who have applied will receive it as 
soon as it is ready. 
--— 
Mr. Geo. Cann, of Santa Fe, hew Mex¬ 
ico, an old patron of ours, and a subscriber 
to Seed-Time and Harvest, writes us 
that he is now sixty years of age, and has 
been for the past twenty-five years con¬ 
siderably crippled in both feet. On these 
accounts, in addition to failing health, he 
wishes to sell a nice little fruit and vegeta¬ 
ble farm, on which lie has grown Cabbages 
to weigh 50 lbs. per head, Beets 25 lbs. 
each, Spring Wheat 100 bushels per acre, 
etc., for one-lialf of what he considers its 
real value. Any one wishing to go into 
that far country, and secure a good start, 
would do well to drop him a line for fur¬ 
ther particulars. 
New Postal Changes. —The new two- 
ceut letter rate, which is to take effect 
October 1, and the new postal notes which 
are soon to be issued for any amount under 
Five Dollars payable at any money order 
office at an expence of only three cents to 
the sender, will prove great conveniences 
to our patrons, who can then send us any 
amount under Five Dollars safely by mail 
at an expense of only five cents. In. this 
connection we will announce that La Plume 
is now a Money Order Office, and that 
Postal Notes as well as Money Orders for 
larger amounts may now be made payable- 
at this office. Heretofore we have request¬ 
ed that they be drawn on Scranton as we 
did banking business there and could de¬ 
posit them for collection same as checks. 
But the growth of our office has been, sa 
rapid that the Post Office Department has 
seen fit to establish a money order office 
here, which will prove a convenience to us. * 
and our patrons. There is no excuse now 
for loosing money by sending it by mail in 
common letters. 
-- 
After issuing Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest for three years as a Quarterly, we- 
began its publication as a Monthly on Octo¬ 
ber 1st, 1882. Consequently all subscrip¬ 
tions which commenced with our first 
monthly number will expire with our next 
issue unless renewed. We did intend to 
mark the date of expiration as shown upon 
our books upon the wrappers of this issue 
as a warning to those whose names were 
liable to be dropped, but found that a large 
portion of the wrappers were already ad¬ 
dressed, so concluded to defer it till next 
month. Our friends, therefore, who do not 
wish to risk missing a number should bear 
in mind to look at their address upon our 
next (September) number and see the fig¬ 
ures opposite their names. If you find “10- 
83” it will signify that your time is out with 
that number, and a prompt renewal is re¬ 
quested, as we shall not keep a large stock 
of back numbers on hand. If you find 
“12-83” your time is out with the December 
number, if “1-84” it closes with the Jan¬ 
uary number, and so on “2-84” for Feb¬ 
ruary,. “3-84” for March, etc., the first fig¬ 
ure showing the month, and the second the 
