Pasadena Farmers’ Club. 
By H. Roberts. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
The Pasadena Farmers’ Club con¬ 
tinues in a prosperous condition, with 
meetings well attended and interest in 
the discussions increasing. 
This is primarily a social club, de¬ 
signed to promote friendly intercourse 
among all the people in our rural com¬ 
munities, both natives or old residents 
and those who have come in later from 
other states. We realize the fact that, 
especially in sparsely settled districts, 
farmers and fruit growers are apt to 
live too much to themselves. They 
fail to take advantage of the opportun¬ 
ities afforded them to enjoy and de¬ 
velop the social side of life, thus un¬ 
willingly imposing upon themselves 
and families privations that could well 
be avoided, and failing to obtain the 
full benefits to be derived from the 
freedom and healthfulness of a life 
among the trees. 
In this effort to amend social con¬ 
ditions we have succeeded even beyond 
our expectations. Our people are 
united and in hearty sympathy with 
each other. New-comers are intro¬ 
duced at once into the best society and 
old neighbors who had not visited each 
other for years are brought pleasantly 
together and old friendships renewed. 
Our discussions are on some matter 
of general interest, on some line of our 
work as home-builders. For that is, 
after all, our principal aim, to make of 
our little corner of Florida a land of 
happy homes, such as can only be 
found among a prosperous and united 
people. 
We should be more than pleased if 
this club idea would spread to other 
districts and that a system of inter¬ 
correspondence could be established 
between the clubs so that the people 
of one county or section might feel a 
closer interest in the people of other 
sections; that all might work together 
for the better settlement and upbuild¬ 
ing of our beautiful state. 
A very interesting feature of our 
work during the past year was a 
Farmers' Institute held under the aus¬ 
pices of the Club, at which lectures 
were delivered by Prof. Rolfs and 
Prof. Blair, of the Florida Experiment 
Station, the exercises being inter¬ 
spersed with talks and discussions by 
local workers, and not neglecting the 
generous picnic lunch supplied by the 
ladies who are, after all, the mainstay 
and support of the Club. 
With many thanks to your Society 
for the invitation to “report progress,”’ 
we remain, yours for a still better and 
more prosperous Florida, 
The Pasadena Farmers' Club. 
Per H. Roberts, President. 
