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Primer of Economics 
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evil/ which the. capitalistic system cre- 
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ates. 
Business co-operation is a system that 
is slowly but surely developing within tin* 
institution of private property. It re¬ 
cognizes and utilizes the principle of pri¬ 
vate property. It employs capital and 
utilizes labor. It encourages production. 
It stimulates consumption. It rewards 
every man according to his contribution 
to it. It serves the common man without 
resort to socialism. It appeals t" the 
real socialist; though its success would 
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he defined and discussed in the following 
chapters. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The. brightest thing in . the shrubbery 
now is the T.uciduni privet. This is a 
very broad-leaved variety, similar to 
.Taponicum. It is as evergreen as holly, 
and now. the first of December, its young 
shoots look like they are still growing. 
It is a dwarf species, and seldom gets over 
live feet tall. How far north it would 
stand tin' Winter T cannot say, but it has 
wintered in Philadelphia, Pa. 
The student gardener always learns 
something every season, and sometimes 
learns that something he thought correct 
was not. and that his mistakes were more 
useful often than his successes. The 
past, season has been fruitful in experi¬ 
ences and in the confirmation of previous 
experience. 
In, the last 40 or more years I have 
bought, the varieties of asparagus offered 
since the time. I planted 10.000 of the 
Conover Colossal at .810 a thousand roots. 
I have reason to believe that I am right 
that any so-called variety is best when 
you feed if heavily, and any variety will 
he pooi- if not well fed. I can take the 
wild asparagus of our tidal beaches and 
grow as fat stems as any of the cat¬ 
alogued sorts. The only difference I have 
noted is that the variety called Palmetto 
is less liable to disease than others. 1 
T have learned that in a very sandy 
soil, no matter how you may fertilize and 
enrich, you cannot head lettuce as well 
as in a medium clay loam. In northern 
Maryland, with frames filled with a com¬ 
post of Pluc grass sods from a limestone 
soil with horse manure and hone dust 
composted for a whole Summer and fre¬ 
quently turned. I grew lettuce that 
headed like a Plat Dutch cabbage. And 
right here there are sections where tli“ 
soil is heavier where big lettuce heads 
are made. P.ut in my sandy soil, while I 
can make fairly good lettuce, it never 
heads as solid as I have made in a stiffen 
soil, and I have tried in vain to make 
the heads I formerly did. 
In the past 50-odd years I have prob¬ 
ably tested as many varieties of tomatoes 
as any grower in the country. The to¬ 
mato has always been a favorite plant 
with' me, and I have not only tested 
varieties, but many methods, as training 
or no training. When Col. Waring an¬ 
nounced that he had got the old Chihua¬ 
hua tomato into a smooth skin I invested 
$5 in 20 seeds of it. This was the 
Trophy, the first real advance toward get¬ 
ting a smooth-skinned tomato with solid 
meaty inside. In fact, with the exception 
of more uniform smooth form, there has 
been little advance in quality of tomatoes 
since the advent of the Trophy, and I 
believe that all the smooth, solid tomatoes 
of today trace back to the Trophy. The 
extra early varieties trace to the old hol¬ 
low Early Smooth Red, which Col. War¬ 
ing crossed on the crooked Chihuahua. 
The old Tilden tomato was a pure selec¬ 
tion from the Early Smooth lied. The 
advance in the early varieties has been 
from crossing with the more meaty 
varieties and selection for earliness. 
Chalk’s Jewel marked a type of the best 
early tomatoes, and the best we have to¬ 
day are bred from Chalk's Jewel. Bonny 
Best and others are all Jewel strains, 
while the Earliana is descended from the 
old early rough-skin species. Of course, 
there have been some differences in spe¬ 
cies, but I am simply discussing varieties 
and their ancestry. 
Then as to methods of culture. The 
tomato plant is a gross feeder, with a 
strong tendency to variation, so that a 
variety bred to a certain type today and 
January 1, 1921 
sent into commerce will in a few years 
break into several types, owing to the 
methods of seed selection practiced by dif¬ 
ferent seed growers. The catalogues list 
varieties sent out 20 years ago nr more, 
and we can buy even the Trophy, but the 
Trophy today is a very different thing 
from the Trophy ^of 1870. and the same 
is true of all old sorts, so that it would 
be a good thing to eliminate any tomato 
from the catalogues which lias been listed 
for 20 years. After testing numerous 
methods of training and pruning I have 
found that for the home garden the train¬ 
ing to one stem on a -stake about six feet 
tall gives the earliest ripe fruit and the 
heaviest crop per plant and per area. I 
have usually practiced this method with 
early plants only, hut T am convinced 
that, early or late, it pays to train the 
stakes. The cast season my early plants 
were trained to stakes and to one stem. 
A few of the same lot of plants were set 
by a wire fence and let grow at. will on 
the fence. Then the later varieties, set 
in May or Juno, wore allowed to take 
their natural growth on the ground. 
These late ones were completely played 
out before either of the early lots failed. 
Those on the stakes and trained to one 
stem were productive to the last. When 
the plants had reached the top of the 
stakes I did no more pinching, but let 
them grow and hang over. Those on the 
wire fence failed soon after the late- 
planted ones, and did not produce as fine 
nor as many tomatoes as those on stakes. 
The late varieties, allowed their own 
sweet will, failed first and did not make 
near the crop we got from the stakes. 
The early ones were Bonny Best and the 
late ones Success and Stone. The leaf 
blight had something to do with the small 
c-rop on the late varieties. Properly 
treated and kept free from leaf blight. 
Success is one of file very best croppers 
and excellent, in quality. Pink varieties, 
like Globe, have always seemed to be 
more resistant to leaf blight than red 
tomatoes. More garden experiences 
later. w. f. massey. 
Thieves Who Steal “Greenery” 
The State of Massachusetts has a law 
to protect owners of the wild flowers. It 
reads as follows; 
Whoever wilfully cuts down or de¬ 
stroys. timber or wood standing or grow¬ 
ing on the land of another, or cuts or 
takes therefrom any ferns, flowers or 
shrubs, without the license of the owner 
thereof, shall he punished by imprison¬ 
ment for not more than six months, or 
by fine of not more than .8500. 
This has been found necessary to pro¬ 
tect property. Hundreds of joy riders 
Stop their ears and help themselves to all 
sorts of “greenery.” They break down 
trees, pull up ferns and flowers, despoil 
gardens and act like robbers generally. 
When one of these thieves is identified 
and convicted the State takes his auto 
license. Now and then they inflict self¬ 
punishment. The following incident is 
printed in a Boston paper. In lliis case 
the commissioner should have waited long 
enough to give these young women the 
best treatment for ivy poisoning: 
Seeing an automobile by the side of the 
road, the rear seat of which was partially 
filled with “greenery.” Mr. Bazeley 
stopped his car and waited for the owner 
of the automobile to appear. In a few 
moments four young women, wearing fur 
overcoats, came out of the woods, each 
with an armful of the “greenery.” Mr. 
Bazeley stopped them and asked if they 
were the owners of the property. 
“No, we are not,” replied the young 
women. 
“Have you the owner's permission to 
enter this property and remove ‘green¬ 
ery’?” ask 'd Mr. Bazeley. 
“Xo.” replied the young women in a 
puzzled tone. 
“Then don’t you realize that, you are 
trespassing, that the ‘greenery’ you are 
taking belongs to someone else, that you 
are stealing and subject to prosecution 
and punishment therefor?” 
“Goodness, no!” was the startled re¬ 
sponse from one of the young women. 
“What is going to happen to US?” in¬ 
quired another in a frightened tone. 
“Well,” answered the commissioner, re¬ 
vealing his identity, “the registrar of 
motor vehicles could take your automobile 
license away and the commissioner of con¬ 
servation would have you arrested, fined, 
and possibly sent to jail.” 
The young women gasped. 
“But I think you have been punished 
enough.” lie continued. 
“Punished?” was the inquiry. 
“Yes. punished.” answered Mr. Bazeley. 
“for the- ‘greenery’ you have been steal¬ 
ing happens to be poison ivy.” 
Just then the commissioner stepped on 
the gas. 
