The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-08
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
MEETS AT HOMEW0RTH.
One Hundred and Fifty People Royalty Enter
tanned at the Home of Jacob Knoll
A Good Meeting.

tural Society and their friends for the
July meeting on Wednesday, July ~,
and it pays to be hosticulturalist II Tor
no other reason than to have the privi-
lege of being entertained at the many
we'll kept homes Of members throughout
the county. After bountiful, dinner at
which about one hundred and fifty salts
fed their hunger, the president called
the meeting to order in the commodious
barn where seats had been provided sui
fcient to seat the entire company. After
a piece of music on organ by Mrs. Ada
Knoll, accompanied by D. S. Bowman on
violin, the minutes Of previous meeting
were read and approved. Andrew J.
Shaffer was appointed a committee to
solicit new members and Andrew Pom
thus a committee on apples, pears and
ounces.
Under unfinished business the sug-
gestion that was made by S. H. Rockhill
at the June meeting, viz: THAT we
make an effort to get oranges and other
farmers organizations to send delegates
and reports to each of our monthly meet
ings," was favorably discussed by mem
bers of Oranges and Horticulturalists,
members of Fairmount, Marlboro, New
Berlin and Canton nGranges being present
A committee, consisting of one men,
Der from each Grange present, to
with Eli Grant and discuss the matter
resulted in the following resolution.
Resolved, That the Stark County Hor-
ticultural Society extend an invitation
to the Oranges of the county to become
Individual members of the society, and
entitled to a copy of monthly and yearly
reports of society, and the privilege of
proposing any question to the society
for discussion.
Moved and seconded the resolution be
accepted. Motion carried.
H. Rockhill was appointed to open
the discussion on the question, "Does it
nav to be horticulturist?" AS he was
not present the secretary read the follow
ing paper which he had sent to the
society:
DOES IT PAY TO BE A HoRTICULTURlST!
IF a man buys a horse for 800 and
sells it for $50 we say lit pays" IT he
buvs a farm for $25 an acre and sells 1t
for $50, or raises crop the first year so
large and gets such price for the crop
as to enable him to pay the land with its
first years product we ordinarily say 1t
saws to be a farmer like that" or, cit
paws to buy land" If dollars and and
cents we're the only kind ofpay we could
oct in this world, then if the man who
bought the horse for 500 didn't sell it
for more than he gave or make 1t earn
more money than it cost, it would not
nav to own a horse and, likewise, 1t
wouldn't pay to own anything else that
did not being an increase Of dollars and
cents.
But pay or recompense, or compensa-
ton, is not necessarily money consider
ton, Shakespeare says, "You have paid
down in penitence more than done tres
pass" Payment may be made then in
"penitence," in sorrow and anguish; but
it may also come in pleasure, in social
endowment, in progress, in intellectual
and physical development and in money
as we'll. AS ride through the streets OF
this beautiful Los Angeles, the thought
comes to me, "Does it pay to plant these
long rows of palm trees along the streets
as far as the eye can see? Does it pay
to submerge these cottages under billows
of vines and howers2 Does it pay to lay
out parks and driveways winding
through groves of beautiful trees, and
gardens offragrant flowers? The answer
comes in the look of pleasure and pride
that beams from the countenances OF all
her citizens. 'It pays, it pays, 1t pays;
and because these things add joy and
pride to the citizen, real estate becomes
more valuable and "it pays" even in
money compensation.
So that, whether it pays you to be
members of the Stark County Horticul-
tural Society or not, depends on whether
you learn to make two blades of grass
grow where one grew before; whether
you are inspired by counseling together
to beautify your homes and thus add
comfort and happiness to yourself and
those around you and, incidentally, value
to your property; whether you can give
one day each month to social enjoyment
and the development of your social
natures, and, as far as may, to build up a
cooperative commonwealth of farmers,
whose aim shall be to make every farm
in Stark county better farm, every
farmer a better farmer, and every farm
home center of social and intellectual
enjoyment
Having arrived in California only yes
terday have thus hastened to to fulfill
my obligation to our society and I close
~, to,,;oo and believing that the Stark