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interested in Flower or Vegetable garden¬ 
ing to give you their subscription at once. 
You would hardly expect us to make so 
liberal an offer as that to each subscriber 
and still pay you. as our agent, for your 
trouble in collecting the subscriptions. But 
we will. We will pay you liberally in cash. 
The amount which we will pay you must 
vary of course with the amount of work 
you do for us. But if you can devote any 
time to the work we shall be pleased to 
hear from you and will give terms which 
will surprise you upon application. 
Help the Puzzle department. -We 
hope that all our young friends, and old 
ones who have young hearts, will take an 
interest in our Puzzle Department and free¬ 
ly send answers and new puzzles to its 
editor. To give those in distant states a 
fair chance we shall hereafter give a longer 
time for solutions before publishing the 
answers. We hope and expect that better 
puzzles and larger prizes will be offered 
shortly. 
Swindling by Mail. —Since the pub¬ 
lication of our article under the above cap¬ 
tion in our July number (page 18) we have 
received from a number of different houses 
letters which show that these unfortunate 
parties, Messrs. Bagley and Landers, of 
Big Creek, Ga., have mailed letters con¬ 
taining various sums (?) which have, of 
course, never been received. It appears 
that they have been playing that little 
game extensively and uninterruptedly for 
the past ten or fifteen years. 
A communication signed “R. A. Bagley 
per W. W. L.,” and stamped ‘‘Bagley & 
Landers, Dealers in Medicines, Watches, 
Clocks, Jewelry, Books, News, Garden 
Seeds &c., Big Creek, Ga.,” loaned us by a 
prominent nurseryman in New York, in 
which is the old story of money lost and an 
urgent appeal for them to duplicate the or¬ 
der, is the first positive evidence we have 
had that Bagley and Landers are one, or 
at least connected in business. They prob¬ 
ably have a little country store down there 
and this is a way they have of keeping it 
stocked. We have made no effort to ascer¬ 
tain whether their generous patronage has 
been extended to dealers in “medicines, 
watches, clocks, jewelry,books, news, &c.,” 
as well as seeds and nursery stock, but pre¬ 
sume it has, and have no doubt that these 
enterprising dealers have had a long and 
lucrative business. 
A number of seedsmen aDd nurserymen 
have written us that they have frequently 
had their suspicions aroused, that they were 
being imposed upon by parties making sim¬ 
ilar claims, but that as they have no pos¬ 
itive proof they must decline to publish 
any names. Of course, it would he very 
unfair to claim a fraud from a simple sus¬ 
picion in a single case, but we should like 
to compare notes and see if any others have 
been so unfortunate all around as have 
our friends Bagley and Landers. 
We have received from the publisher, 
W. H. Thompson, 404 Arch St., Philadel¬ 
phia, a copy of the ‘'‘American Farm and 
Home Cyclopedia,” which is advertised else¬ 
where in this issue. It is an immense vol¬ 
ume containing nearly 1200 pages and 2000 
engravings, many of which are novel and 
striking in the extreme. The subject mat¬ 
ter embraces almost every imaginable sub¬ 
ject pertaining to home and especially 
country life. It is compiled by Horace. 
R. Allen, A. M.. M. D., who was assisted 
by a host of the very best writers in this 
country, who were specialists in the vari¬ 
ous departments which they represent. It is 
truly a whole library in itself, and will 
afford an endless amount of instruction 
and entertainment to its possessor, for there 
is no one person so well informed upon all 
subjects embraced in this volume that he 
cannot derive much information from a 
perusal of its pages. It is sold by subscrip¬ 
tion and any person desiring to canvass will 
find it the book of the season to take the 
public eye, and sell itself without a great 
effort on the part of the agent. 
We desire to call the attention of our readers, es¬ 
pecially those who desire to purchase plants, ma¬ 
chinery, &c., to our advertising columns where they 
will find the cards of many first-class firms whom it 
is a pleasure to recommend for fair dealing. Should 
you want anything in their line write to them before 
ordering elsewhere, and in so doing, it may be an 
advantage to all ooneerned if you will say you saw 
their advertisement in Seed-Time and Harvest. 
