An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL IV., NO. XI. WHOLE NO., XXV. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., November. 1883 
—We want an agent in every neighborhood to col¬ 
lect subscriptions for this magazine. See our un¬ 
precedented offers on second cover page. 
And now the Indies, bless 'em!— 
When gone out much me, miss 'em >— 
Are from, the beaches coming home in scores, scores, 
scores; 
Where lately they've been stopping, 
And now they'll go a-shopping, 
And over-run the various dry-goods stores, stores , 
stores. 
—$200 is worth working for. It don't grow on every 
bush. 
Gran g'CS or other societies wishing a 
Splendid Organ may select any style from 
the catalogue of the Estey Organ Com¬ 
pany, of Brattleboro, Vt.. (no finer instru¬ 
ments are made) and apply one-half the 
money sent us for subscriptions toward the 
payment of it. Thus 360 names and $180 
sent us will secure 360 copies of Seed-Time 
and Harvest for one year, give each 25 
cents worth of seeds as premium, equaling 
$90 in seeds, and pay for Estey Organ, 
Style 2, worth $90, and would probably 
secure a $200 cash prize, which would put 
into the treasury $20 ijiore than would 
have to be paid out, Isn’t this worth look¬ 
ing into? 
TO AD VERTI8ERS. 
We wish to announce that the next 
(December) issue of Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest will have a sworn circulation of over 
50,000 copies. By this, we mean that 
the number of copies actually printed and 
mailed will exceed that number, and v e 
will support this statement with our affi¬ 
davit. And yet our charge for space for 
first class advertisements is but $3.60 
per inch for each insertion, with liberal 
discount on those running for several 
months. This explains why we so fre¬ 
quent^ receive such expressions as the 
following: 
“Seed-Time and Harvest is about the best adver¬ 
tising medium in the United States. If there is any 
other paper equal to it - is thk one. Few 
papers bring many responses to a good square ad¬ 
vertisement. I am hearing, from yours by every 
mail. This is sent as a just acknowledgement on 
my part of value received.” — W. H. Thompson, Pub¬ 
lisher, Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 28, 1883. 
“I was well pleased with my advertisement in 
Seed-Time and Harvest. I received more inquiries 
from it than from any of the Bee Journals, and your 
bill was less than in other journals.’' — Howard Nich¬ 
olas, Etters, Pa., Oct. 25, 1883. 
“I consider Seed-Time and Harvest one of the 
best advertising mediums for Poultrymen. A three 
line advertisement of “Eggs for Hatching” brought 
me nearlj r as many orders as a much larger adver¬ 
tisement in the leading Poultry Magazines.” — Geo. 
F. Miller, Justus, Pa., Oct. 25, 1883. 
“In my advertising I calculate to know about 
how much each paper pays me, and abou; how 
much each paper gets into me—for some do it. I 
find Seed-Time and Harvest on my paying list, and 
I shall use it again when my time comes. I like the 
class of its readers and believe it to be a good medi¬ 
um for Poultry Advertising.”—G. M. T. Johnson, 
Binghamton. N. Y., Oct. 27, 1883. 
Many more such letters might be given, but we 
simply started to say that all copy for advertising 
for December number must,be in hand by the 20tl& 
inst. If you have not already done so, please send 
us a trial order (no matter how small) and see if it 
does not pay you as it certainly ha; others. 
—Get a few of your friends to help you and you 
can easily secure one of our cash prizes. See our 
Great Offer on second cover page. 
Now, my friend, would you feel just 
right to read the anuouncement iin our 
April number that Tom Jones receeived 
the capital prize of $200, for a club of forty 
or fifty subscribers, when you had made no 
effort to get any ? We believe that the 
largest single club ever yet received by us 
consisted of but forty-five names. You 
can do better than that, can’t you ? And 
you will go to work and do it and thus 
show your appreciation of our labors, 
won’t you V Yes, we knew you would or 
we would not have made such an offer, 
for we were anxious that you should have 
it, and you shall if you will do your part 
