The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-12-26

Rare knowledge ofthe Subjects, One
by the President and the other by
Nj. M. southworth-The Reports.
At-11 o'clock, a. M, President George
w. Lawrence called to order the stark
County Horticultural Society at the Stark
County ln1rmary, on Wednesday, Dc1om.
chr Is. Superintendent Gerwig kept car.
riagcs running to meet street cars at the
northern terminus Of the Cleveland ave.
Uuo line and by the time appointed for
he meeting a large crowd had assembled.
Minutes Of previous meeting read and
approved
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The question proposed at the November
meeting by Mr. Hayhurst How Shall
Treat My Asparagus Plants now Ready
tn Set Outg"
NJ. NJ. Southworth, Of the Children
Home, answered by saying, "covcr the
plants where they are with light litter,
and have your bed prepared with good
foundation of we'll rottcd stable manure,
ready for putting the plants in early in
the spring Recommends the free use Of
salt rs a fertilizer for asparagus.
The chair appointed Miss Saylcr Mr..
Bitter and p. j Palmer a committee to
nominate officers for the coming year and
Mes5rs. Roth, Hayhurst and Holibaugh
on membership.
ADJOURNED FOR DINNER
The chairman had some difficulty in
getting the audience together after dinner
AS the members had got scattered among
the residents Of the place. and were busy
viewing the accommodations Stark Coun-
ty has prepared for the care of her doscrv-
ing poor. When, however, the audience
did assemble, it found superintendent NJ.
NJ. SOuthworth, of the Childrcns' Home,
ready with his paper on 'HOw Shall We
Keep the Boys on the FARM
He illustrated his masters style of
wbistling by executing Mr.. Thompson's
only tune Yankee Doodle" with wonder
fnl variations, and sang "Whcre is My
Wandering Boy Tonight" very sweetly.
Mr.. soUTHwoRTH's PAPER.
Ladies and Gentlemen. and Friends TO
That Which will be Best Food for All:
hope that you will not expect much from
me ON this occasion, for l am not an cdu-
cated man, and it will be much easier for
me to tell you what l have been, than TO
tell you what l am going to be. have
been u bound boy for one thing, and l do
not believe that many of you can say as
much; and what little | know about sing
ing schools I learned of our worthy secre-
tary, Mr. :. H. ROckhll. My beginning
as "a farmer was with Mr.. VIM. Thompson,
of more ability in the art of manufactur-
ing cheese than in the manipulating of
the farm l always thought that he was
IN poor whistler and not very good farm
er. lost confidence in his ability TO farm,
when he said one day that his farm was
so rich that he did not know where to put
n large stack Of barn yard fertilizer, when
me had raised but thirty bushels of oats
the year before to the acre But was
never so fortunate in all my experience as
n farmer to have more of that fertilizer of
fertilizers than | Knew what to do with.
And through experiences OF this kind,
what little | know of farming l have got
ten through careful study of many per
picking subjects that come before a
farmer
But I did not intend to undertake to
win glory by telling Of other peoples ex-
perienCes. What | wanted to do was to
ask this questions Are we not in our
sagerness to accumulate, in our anxiety
60 have nice stock and big crops of every
thing that u farmer can raise, forgetting
n wonderfully interesting part Of our du-
iBesy Are we not failing to interest the
children in the farmers duties? 1t looks
that way to me. Can't we devise some
plan of attraction that will make them
feel that there is more on the farm than
there is in the city? Because we know
that there is not the temptation to en-
counter on the farm that there is in the
city. A farmer boy is not as apt to get
out of work as the boy in the city. Then |
what follows after he gets to town? Idle |
ness Idleness breeds mischief and from |
that TO rasCality. And then follows inn |
prisOnment We do not claim that all |
farmers boys terminate thus But |
through nUn-eXperience many good |
boy has left the farm TO better his condi- |
Gion by going into town to take his !
chances with the world. And oh, how |
much better how much more indepen-
dent, is the farmer boy than hewho works |
at the sound Of the whistle He is not
subject to strikes nor to the selhshness of
some foreman who has nearer friend
that he would like to give the position to- |
One thing we can do and that is, to
make the farm and home attractive, |
Make the indoors as pleasant as we can |
for there is whe-e we most always go |
tired. And when that fails TO entertain |
them, they are very apt to hunt for other !
society. And what Is the result? In |
place of having a home with the family |
group, their homes are found elsewhere |
And in place OF their help to gather in the |
harvest to our own granaries, IL is gath |
cred in TO the prisons and poor houses. |
For after drifting to the cities and no work |
is found in many cases, too much pluck |
oyercomes their better Judgment, and
they then and there determine net to re-
turn to the farm. And then the question
arises, Why is itY This we can ponder
over for all time to come. / find tnat /
get the best results in placing boys and
girls with the farmer element. And out
of 513 children that have to look after
at this time, three-fOurths Of them are
with farmers, and ] feel confident thai
they are better satisfied from the fact thai
they most invariably have plenty TO wear |
and TO eat---a thing that th0y did not en-
joy very often when in their original
homes And their homes were Invariably !
in tOwn or city.
But the loss ia the farmer in his boy
going TO town is gain to us, who are
hunting homes for the little charitablei
waits. Then you may ask, Why ere youI
kickingY For more reasons than one.
First, for every farmer boy who goes into
town, we find some poor man with big
family who Is crowded out Of a position
Go make room for the farmer boy who left
home and DlentV 10 crowd a man out that