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The Book of the Hour 
"Nothing like it in print. Should be in the hands 
of every voter who can read," says a noted 
teacher of Political Science. 
American Voter’s Handbook 
A Guide to Intelligent Political Action. 
By HASBROUCK O. PALEN 
Strictly Non-Partisan 
CONTENTS 
1. The Voter’s Problem. 
2. Ideals of a Democracy. 
3. Reconciliation of Government with Liberty. 
4. The Genius of Our Government. 
5. Women in Politics. 
6. Countries in Which Women May Now Vote. 
7. Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 
8. As Others See Us. 
9. What the Sages Say. 
10. What of the Future! 
11. The Presidential Race. 
12. Republican Party Platform. 
13. Democratic Party Platform. 
14. Prohibition Party Platform. 
15. Socialist Party Platform. 
16. Farmer-Labor Party Platform. 
17. Single Tax Party Platform. 
18. Declaration of Independence. 
19. U. S. Constitution and Amendments. 
20. Proclamation of the 19tli Amendment. 
21. Electoral Vote by States. 
22. Presidents of the United States. 
23. "Milestone Dates” in U. S. History. 
24. With or Without Reservations. 
25. League of Nations Covenant. 
26. Lodge Reservations. 
27. Bibliography. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The reports in Tiie R. N.-Y. of the 
big crop of apples and low prices seem 
odd to ns here, when our grocers are 
asking 60 cents a peck and $2.25 a bushel 
for good apples. The local paper says that 
one grower in Talbot County has sold 
his crop of Grimes Golden for $0 a bar¬ 
rel. and that another grower sent some 
Spokane Beautys to Philadelphia and got 
25 cents apiece for them, and the buyer 
wants more of them. We poor folks who 
have to buy our apples wish that rail¬ 
roads rates were not so high as to pre¬ 
vent our getting some of the apples the 
Northern grower will put into cider. 
Then with butter at 75 cents a pound 
we often wonder what the farmers get 
who - supply the creameries. There are 
creameries on the eastern shore of Mary¬ 
land and Delaware and the upper coun¬ 
ties of the eastern shore are rapidly 
changing to dairy sections, for the milk 
market of Philadelphia. North Carolina 
is stocking up with Holstein cows and 
making cheese, and the dairy seems to 
be moving southward. The farmers are 
selling their wheat straw to the straw- 
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board mills, and the strawboard is rap¬ 
idly taking the place of wood for mak¬ 
ing shipping boxes of ail sorts, and not 
to make barrels. 
A Southern correspondent asks why 
his fig tree never ripens any fruit. They 
form and grow to some size and then 
drop off. Ilis fig is evidently a seedling 
from the dried figs, usually called Smyrna 
figs. These are not self-fertilizing, but 
need the present of the wild Capri fig and 
the little Blastophaga wasp that lives 
on this class of figs, and sets the seed 
in the flowers. They have the Capri fig 
and the wasp now in California, and are 
growing and drying figs. But there are 
numerous varieties of figs that are self¬ 
fertilizing. The difficulty in the upper 
South is the tenderness of many sorts. 
The wood may not get killed, hut the little 
figs that are set in the Fall, and which 
are to make the early crop, get killed, and 
there is then only the later inferior Sum¬ 
mer crop. But with Winter protection 
we can grow many of the more hardy 
varieties of figs. I grew figs in quantity 
in a cold valley in Northern Maryland 
25 miles south of the Pennsylvania line. 
My trees were planted 25 feet apart 
and grown in bush form, branching from 
the ground. In the Fall when frost cuts 
the leaves (the fig is naturally evergreen) 
I laid the branches to the ground four 
ways, in form of a cross, and pinned them 
fast with forked sticks. Then the soil 
was mounded over them higher in the 
center and sloping over the four bundles 
of the branches like a four-pointed star. 
I have kept them in this way when the 
mercury fell to 18 below zero, and saved 
the Fall-set crop, and got the Summer 
crop earlier. I grew the Brown Turkey, 
White Marseilles and one or two others. 
In INPO. and several years thereafter, 
at the North Carolina Station, I experi¬ 
mented largely with figs in order to find 
the most hardy ones. I had all the avail¬ 
able varieties of self-fertilizing figs from 
the south of Europe and the British hot¬ 
houses. The little Chinese Celestial fig 
proved the hardiest, with Doree Barbus 
nearly as hardy. I had 55 varieties, but 
the majority of them were too tender for 
Central North Carolina. I distributed 
thousands of young plants over the 
warmer coastal section of North Caro¬ 
lina, and asked the receivers to report on 
their quality and adaptation to the cli¬ 
mate, but not one ever reported. At 
Raleigh a sufficient protection is made 
by massing green pine boughs around the 
tree and keeping it in bush form. There 
the little Celestial fig is eaten whole 
with cream, and in quality it is the Seekel 
of the fig family. As a rule, the brown 
figs are the hardiest, and good, while the 
white figs are all tender. Many black 
figs are rather hardy and of large size, 
but I never saw a black fig that was even 
tolerably good to eat. w. F. MASSEY. 
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near me where I can get lime that has 
been used for purifying the sugar. Would 
tliis lime be any benefit to ray soil, and 
about how much should I use per acre 
for market garden crops? c. J. m. 
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A Few Books Started Lincoln 
What are the few great books that will 
give the essentials of a liberal education ? 
TTE talked like a man who had traveled. He knew 
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style as only comes to a man from reading the works 
of master writers. 
Yet did you ever think of this? 
You, yourself, have probably read as many books as Lincoln 
read in the first thirty years of his life. 
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The answer is that he knew what few books were really worth 
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