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eed-iime and gamat 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted bj 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 IY., NO. XII. WHOLE NO., XXVI, 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co.. Pa.. December. 188." . 
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THE CIRCULATSOM OF TH!S~1SSUE 
IS 50 400 COPSES. 
Some journals compute their ‘‘‘circula¬ 
tion*’ by calculating that there are five or 
six persons in each family in which a copy 
goes. We compute ours by multiplying 
the number of reams of paper, actually 
printed. 105, by the number of sheets in a 
ream, 4S0, and call the product, 5i.4t0, our 
circulation. We expect that that $50© 
stimulant will increase these figures before 
spring. It ought to, hadn’t it? 
TO EDITORS AMD PUBLISHERS. 
We will send Seed-Time and Harvest regularly 
for one year to any Edit< r or Publisher in America 
who will give it a notice favorable or otherwise) and 
send a marked copy of his paper containing the 
same. 
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It is just as we expected. As soon 
as advertisers find out that we are really 
giving a larger circulation for the 'money 
than other journals, they crowd our col¬ 
umns fearfully. Many real good things 
we had prepared for this number had to be 
laid ovt r to accommodate advertisers who 
would not wait. We beg our readers’ in¬ 
dulgence this time, and promise if the ad¬ 
vertising pressure continues to increase, 
we w ill reduce it by increasing our adver¬ 
tising rates. We shall aim to give 26 page 
of reading matter, and but twelve of ad 
vertisements through the year. 
Our Retail Catalogue of “Reliable Seeds 
at Honest Prices,” for 1-81. will be issued in 
January and sent to all of our old customers without 
application. All others desiring it may obtain it free 
by making postal card application It will contain 
descriptions and illustrations of many of the newer 
Vegetables and Flowers, with complete price list of 
all the several hundred varieties of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds which we supply. If not on our books as 
a customer of 1883, you should send for this catalogue. 
Special Club Offers. By special ar¬ 
rangement with the publishers of the fol¬ 
lowing excellent papers, we are enabled to- 
make remarkably low club offers, as fol¬ 
lows: 
For One Dollar we will send Seed- 
Time and Harvest, the Farm and Gar¬ 
den, the Western Plowman and Green’s »• 
Fruit Grower . each for one year. At reg¬ 
ular prices they amount to $2.00. Or, we- 
will send the New York Weekly Tribune r . 
with any one of the above, for $1.25; with* 
any two for $1.50; any three for $1.75, 01 %. 
with all four for $2.00. which has for years- 
ueon the price of the Tribune alone. 
SPECIAL OFFER to SEED-BUYERS*. 
Being willing to adopt any possible plan to induce 
*sarly orders, I.will offer to fill all orders amounting 
to $10, or over, which are received by ma before 
January 1,. accompanied by ca. h in full; at&l per 
cent, discount from quotations given in this issue-. 
Or, cash orders sent within same limit of time,, 
amounting to $35, or over, may be figured at 3 n per 
coat, discount, and will, as usual,, be forwarded by 
mail or express at my expense.. These offers are so 
liberal tli t it will pay any one who has not the mom 
ey ready to borrow it and pay ten per cent, interest, 
tf necessary, for a few months,, rather than to wait 
until planting time when.full prices will have to be> 
paid. 
These discounts may apply to and include the 5 Ibv 
offer on Onion Seed, (see seed list) thus bringing Re¬ 
liable Onion Seeds at 75 cents per pound net on a, 
$05 order before January 1 If you cannot use $10 
or $35 worth,of seeds it will pay you to get same- 
ueighbors to join vcm and send your orders together. 
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Getting 1 up a Club for Seed-Time 
and Harvest is just like raising a crop of 
wheat or potatoes. The man who goes at 
it in a half-hearted sort of way may get 
back all it costs him, and a little more, but 
when he me asures up the crop W will see 
that if he had spent twice as much labor 
in the undertaking it would have returned 
him at least lour times as much profit. 
This principle is sure to work in a geomet¬ 
rical ratio. If one dollar spent brings back 
one. two dollars invested towards the same 
accomplishment will surely return eight. 
So if you succeed in getting ten names yon 
can afford to strive much harder to make 
it twenty, and then twenty more will 
purely be worth much more to you than 
the first twenty were. See if it isn’t so 
when the day of reckoning, comes.. 
