Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — TREE PLANTING AS A DUTY [ARTICLE]

TREE PLANTING AS A DUTY

Effective Way In Which Each Citizen May Take Part In Bettering the Community. The man with a vision plant* a fruit tree, and there Is pictured upon the canvas of his mind the full grown, developed tree, laden with the fruit of its kind, painted and flavored with the richest colors and most delicious extracts, but he knows that before that picture can become a reality his hand must give that tree a fertile soil, the best cultivation, a scientific trimming and spraying for year*. But nature thus assisted, doe* her part, and the tree, a* the year* go by, develops and in time produce* it* perfect fruit and rewards the labor of the tender. But the tender took the greatest delight In his work, knowing that the time would come when his labor would bear its reward. His work waa a work worth while, and the community in which he lived was made better for his work, for he who doe* nothing more than plant a tree by the wayside and tends It to maturity has deme more for mankind than he who sits and dreams and talks great things of accomplishment, but doe* not a thing to bring them about; or even he who ever works at his task with stolid indifference to its great importance or unmindful of its pleasures.—From “The Business of Farming," by W. C. Smith.