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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1883. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—The seeds I 
got of you have done exceedingly well, consider* 
ing the cold wet spring. I like your SEed-Time 
and Harvest. You may consider me a per¬ 
manent customer both for seeds and publication. 
I tried to get a number of persons to send for 
your collection of seeds, but they were seared. 
They invariably said something like this, “How 
is it he gives so much for a dollar ?” “There is a 
screw loose somev* here”, or, “A lot of s* eds he 
wants to get rid of” etc. But not one of them 
has a garden to compare with mine,—only a 
woman, two small children to attend to, and 
poor health besides. I also lend some of ihem my 
Seed-Time and Harvest, and now they art- 
willing to acknowledge that I got a bargain, i 
could not pos-ibly use all the seeds, so I gave 
the surplus away. Shail send for your man¬ 
ual of Vegetable Plants when I have the money 
to spare. Our little farm (40 acres) is located 
about two miles from Claremont, on the James 
river, half way between Norfolk and Richmond. 
Claremont is the terminus of the A. & D. R. r., 
now building. From there truck, fruit, etc., can 
be shipped oy steamer to Norfolk. Riciimond, 
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington 
and Baltimore, io sa nothing of the smaller 
towns further inland. What an excellent op¬ 
portunity for making money on Guck and fruit 
for the next five years, and yet scores of person* 
in this town are laughing at us, and telling us 
“farming don’t pay,” predicting we will be glad 
to come back to Jamestown again, and that we 
will soon be penniless, etc. But I think I can 
teach them a useful lesson. It is not the money 
I think about altogether. I love the w ork, and 
under the circumstances, I think I have an even 
chance of success, especially when this one fact 
is added: The farm is paid for; our house and 
lot here is paid for. We do not believe in having 
mortgages astraddle ot our roof. We can take 
about twelve hundred dollars along. And it is 
only six years since I was obliged to pawn a 
seventy-five dollar sewing machine for fifteen 
dollars to pay our fare to Jamestown. My hus¬ 
band only has two dollars a day and has had to 
loaf six months of the time, and the best of all 
is the fact that t very penny has been got honest¬ 
ly- 
Now I have three questions to ask. If you 
cannot answer the third one please put it in 
Seed-Time and Harvest and perhaps some 
of your patrons can. 
Land is second growth pine. The custom 
there is to leave stumps to rot out, which they 
do in two or three years. I would prefer to get 
them out if not too expensive. It seems to me 
I once read somewhere of a preparation put 
into a hole bored in a stump, allowed to stand a 
certain time (plugged up) and then fired, aud 
roots and stumps would smolder away. I think 
one ingredient was salt-petre. 
Can it be done with green pine stumps ? 
How long before they can be fired ? 
What are the ingredients of the preparation, 
and proportions of same ? 
Now is the time to make the most money at 
gardening before the tide of emigration sets in 
too strong. Respectfully, Mrs. M. M. Hey. 
Answer: We earnestly request answers to 
above questions from auy of our readers who 
have had experience in the subjects presented. 
Beattyville, Ky., Aug. 27, 1883. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast; Dear Sir,—The seeds I 
got of you this spring did well but the bugs 
went for my cabbage plants. I beat you on the 
Golden Dawn Mango for size. I have now forty- 
eight pods pulled. They are a great show in this 
country. The potatoes that I got of you a year 
ago last spring I double cropped last year and 
am double cropping this year. I planted on the 
first day of August aud dug them on the third 
day of November. I think the Early Beauty of 
Hebron can be double cropped most auy where 
in Kentucky. 
I would like to know if you have any of the 
Nepaul or Beardless Barley, and it' it is good for 
malting purposes ? And what is it worth per 
pound. Yours Truly, Robert Tewart. 
Answer; —There is no barley of any kind 
grown in this vicinity, hence we know practic¬ 
ally little about cultivating it and do not keep 
seed barley. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Now is the time to order roses for winter 
blooming in pots, if you haven’t them already 
growing. There are several well known firms 
who make a business of producing and mailing 
pot roses in almost endless variety, and a dollar 
sent to any of them will eertainly be well in¬ 
vested. 
When the editor proposed and was accepted, 
he said to his sweetheart: “I would be glad if 
you would give me a kiss; then, observing her 
blush, he added, “not necessarily for publica¬ 
tion, but as a guarantee of good faith.” She 
could not resist that. 
