The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
HORTICULTURE.
AN ENJOYABLE AND HELPFUL MEETING
HELD AT CRYSTAL SPRINGS.

Interesting Reports Read at the Meet
tng-Fun Report of the Days Doings.
The enterprising farmers OF Tuacara-
was township, for the purpose of promots
ing their religious and social enjoyment,
have erected q tabernacle three miles
southwest OF Msssillon, by . clear spring
OF water, and named the place Crystal
Springs. On this beautiful spot the Stark
County Horticultural Society met July 10.
After partAking of q sumptuoua dinner,
President Krider called the meeting TO
order and at once began the "Order OF
Business"
Minutes OF previous meeting read and
approved.
Mrs. S. o. Eggert and VIM. Kitzmiller
we're appointed to solicit members,
A communication from Mrs. D. w.
Teeters urged full attendance at the
August meeting and stated that conveys
ance from Alliance to the Teeters' resi-
dence aud return would be In waiting at
the Alliance station.
w. ID. Oberlin read the following essay
INTENSIVE VS. EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURE.
All agriculture is divided into two great
divisions as regards the manner in which
IL is pursued. One division is character
lied by the determination to make small
farm yield its utmost, to produce on one
acre or on ten acres as much as is usually
produced on two or three times that num-
Der of acres. In this sort of agriculture
all efforts are intensified. IL
is intensive agriculture, The other
division is characterized by more
acres and n looser culture. All it's opera
tlons are extensive; IL is extensive agri-
culture. The great wheat and corntlelds
and cattle ranches OF our western prairies
are examples of extensive culture and in
this era Of low prices for the great staple
product, wheat, IL is well for us TO study
the best methods to be pursued to be able
to compete with the western extensive
farmer on his naturally fertile soil and
low priced lands, by means OF which he is
enabled to deliver at your door and mine
his cereal products for n leas price than
we are able TO raise them. And here /
would remark that it has been Amistaken
policy OF our government to permit q
wholesale seizure of our western lands by
syndicAtes and corporations and thus
raise grains and cattle far in excess OF the
natural demands of the population. II
we're far better, think, II those lands
which are now operated on such an ext
tensive scale would have been decided
only to actual settlers in farms Of from so
TO 160 acres each. The limit Of acres and
of wide ambitions lessen as we go east
ward until about the borders Of the great
cities we find an intensive. agricul,
ture. America 10 the lard OF
extensive farming. It's broad unbroken
plains attract the ambitious and afford
unparalleled advantages for the growth
of great agricultural enterprises. We
can illustrate abundsnUy tho extensive
side Of agriculture, the intensive side we
scarcely more lhar approach, most OF our
intensive agriculture is horticulture, which
includes the growing OF fruit. flowers and
vegetable and Is o utcsssiIN bounded by
narrow limits Of NcIes. 1t Is IL matter Of
vital importance that we tamiliarzs our
selves with she process by which three or
four or even more crop, each worth several
hundred dollars, are raised on single
acre Of land in one year, II is said that
shrewd gardener once rented piece of
land, with the stipulation that the land
lord might enter upon the promises at any
time and By paying for the growing crop
annul the lease, and while he saw the
fertility of his soil increased there never
was a time when the crop in the ground
were not worth many times the price of
the land. consequently he was obliged to
sell TO the gardener at a low price per
acre for the land. The time is = dis
tant when such knowledge will
be to many OF us necessity.
II is this high culture which alone
overreaches severe competition. Our
large cities and graduslly our smaller
villages must be supplied With an ubund-
ance or fresh fruits and vegetables but IL
ts only those growers who can grow the
most, the earliest, and the best on the
least ground who can hope for great suc~
cess. 10 gardening, so also in the raising
OF the cereals. III for instance there would
be no profit in raising $50 bushels of
wheat on Is acres, possibly there might be
profit in raising l5o bushels on seven and
half acres, and 40 on through the whole
catalogue, and in order to obtain the same
number Of bushels from half the number
or acres we muGt look well to the tillRRe
and the fertilizer, but good tillage does
not simply consist in keeping the weeds
down but in stirring the the soil deeply
and often for the direct benefit Of the
crops. In the cultivation of hoed crops
there 10 no fAllhcy more dangerous than
that which which uses the hoe only when
weeds become conpicuous. How many
farmers there are who year after year are
planting more acres than they are able to
thoroughly cultivate or furtiIize. Such
farmering as this will never have
aprohtt to the agriculturist. Better far put |
the same amount OF labor aud fertl gers
on one half the number of acres. Such /
loose farming reminds me of the small /
boy who set the hen on one hundred eggs.
When asked why he gave her so many, re.
piled he wanted to see her spread herself. Il
That seems to be the way with some L
farmers; they put out fifty TO one hundred /
acres of wheat solely for the purpose of /
spreading themselves, never taking a
ehought as to the probable profit of such
HArpinai unless IL is. aG some one asserts,
that Colorado 10 producing silver for
twelve cents pound and gold costs more
TO produce il than 10 Ia worth, and yet the
millionaires on account of their losses.
If the assertion be true why Ia IL not pos-
sible for agriculturists tn become rich by
raising grain at loss? In conclusion,
would not ask for more acres in grain but
better ones, not for more orchards but
better ones. We have sufficient num-
ber of poor ones. There will always be
a demand for good fruits and vegetables.
The same amount of thought and ener-
Ry put into the growing OF grains, fruits
and vegetables, as the physicisn puts into
his practice, or the merchant into his
business, would seldom fail to reap a nod
reward. little farm well managed is "a
bank which does not fail, structure
which never hurDs, an enterprise with no Il
"wAteTed strSks," for God has said, "seed
time and harvest shall never fail.n
Mr.. MEG regor stated that the statement /
that "silVer 10 produced vt n cost oftwelve l
cents a pound,n 10 disputed by those who 4
ought TO know.
Mr.. Nieiz showed how the object of the L
Sherman law had been thwarted, by the Il
Secretary of the Treasury paying out gold i
for the red6 mption OF silver certificates,
thus virtually trading gold for silver.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Bitter desired to confirm his im>
preston of a month ago, "that5 per cent"
IL high estimate of the apple crop. He Il
also called attention TO damage done to
peac hes aud apples In certain localities
by the hail.
]. II. Roth gave a still more discourag-
ing report of the apple crop.
Mr. PaImar donjt faaI like Iosinp the Il