The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-25
To MANAGE THE FAIR
sUPERINTENDENTs APPOINTED BY
PRESIDENT BROWN.
WILL BE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
EACH WILL RECEIVE A SALARY
OF IS A DAY DURING FAIR.

Ea1r-LkSt ~ HON
MIR. Brown knows from Personal
Experience TO Have Capacity for
the Special Work to which They
Have Been AppOinted-Bids ON Fair
Buildings VIII BE Considered by
the Directors TO-day-President
Brown Discusses Crop Prospects
i'm Georgia.
Superintendents for the State Fair to
be held in Savannah next fall have been
appointed by Hon. j. Pope Brown, presi-
dent OF the Agricultural Society of Geor-
gia The appointments have been turned
in to the secretary of the Savannah Fair
Association, Mr.. James C. Shaw, and
they will be printed with the premium
list for the fair, which is soon to appear
Mr. Brown was himself in the city yes
terday, having come TO turn in his ap-
pointments and to attend to business in
connection with the annual convention of
the Agricultural Society, which is to be
held at Thomasville, beginning Aug. Il.
The following was the list of superintend-
ents submitted by Mr.. Brown.
General Observation-Disclosures Barrett
Richmond county.
A. Department Agriculture-Dudley M
Hughes, Twiggs county.
b. Department Cattle and Swine-G. W.
Holmes, Madison, Ga.
c. Department Apiary and Dairy-B. N.
Barrow, Griffin.
d. Department Horses, Colts and Ponies
-Roderlck Leonard Talbotton
e., Department Manufactures and Tex
ti1eS-J I Cannon CartersViIle
f. Department Machinery-M. r. Rus
sell, Carrollton.
q. Department Agricultural Implements
w. S. McRee, Valdosta.
II. Department Merchants Display-G.
S. Rountree, Swainsboro.
1. Department Eduoation-W. B. Bur-
roughs, Brunswick.
J. Department Forestry, Mines, Miner
als-S NJ. Roberts, Gainesville.
X. Department Horticulture-R. F. Crit
tenden. Shelman.
l.. department Poultry and Pet Stock
b. H. Baker, Warrenton.
NJ. Department Art. Clayton Glenn
ents, Towns Ga.
n. Department Floriculture-J. e. Nc
Elroy, Norcross.
o. Department of Fishes and Fish Gull
ture-J NJ. B. Goode Conyers.
The superintendent were appointed by
Mr.. Brown from his knowledge of their
abilities. number of them have served
before in similar capacities. Each of
them will be paid S. a day for his ser
vices during the time the fair is in pro
gress.
Interested i'm the Fair.
Mr.. Brown said that he has found de-
cided interest in the Fair wherever he
| has been. In many counties he has found
the determination to make creditable ex-
| hibits. He was i'm Coffee county recently.
and there he was told by number of the
leading farmers that the county would
be wen represented among the displays
Capt James of Adrian also assured Mr.
| Brown that he would make an exhibit
AT the time Capt. James had not fully
determined whether he would let his dis
| play represent his county or make 1t as
| an Individual exhibit. So extensive a far
mer is Capt. James and so diversified are
his products, that he would be qualified
| to almost make state display from his
! own place
| The people are grained, MIR. Brown re-
| ported, to note the activity that is shown
! in preparation for the Fair. He had found
that some were inclined to believe that
Savannah would not move fast enough to
have all in readiness by the opening IF
| the Fair, but the strides of preparat ion
now being made are enough to convince
them of the contrary
Brown on the Crops,
Mr.. Brown was asked about the crops
in Georgia, and the report he made was
| by no means encouraging. He has been
travelling extensively as the representa-
i've of the fair, and, being a farmer him
SELF his observation was that of an ex-
pert.
II do not think there, will be 70 per
cent. of an average crop" said Mr..
| Brown. THE grass has the cotton by the
throat and it will not release it's grasp.
Many of the farmers cannot now repair
the damage that has been wrought dur
ing the many days of very wet weather,
The injury has been irrevocably done.
in some cases that have reached my
observation there is not the slightest APP
parent chance for redeeming the cotton.
The farmers have appreciated this, and
they have determined not to try TO do
anything with their cotton. l have advis-
ed some of them 10 make the best OF the
situation and let the grass in the cotton
fields constitute their crop. Some OF
them have told me that they would do
so. and they will buy presses for packing
the hay into bales. 1t will find a ready
market. and the farmers will not do so
badly after all. They will simply have to
sit and watch their grass grow Labor
save in this way.
Corn is better than cotton. That crop
Will do comparatively well. IL conditions
remain good l never saw the cotton crop
of the state so bad, however. l had TO
make a report for the last sixty days to
the Agricultural Department not long
since, and ! said that the weather has
been too dry and too wet and too hot and
too cold. In other words, 1t has not been
favorable at any time.
Labor is scarce. Some of the farmers
have been unable to gather their grain
crops because they did rot have the ex-
ira labor. Many new railroads are in
process of construction, and they the
sawmills, and the turpentine farms draw
from the labor OF the farms"
Bids for Fair buildings.
Bids for the construction OF the build
ings for the Fair grounds were received
yesterday by Mr. Percy Sugden, architect
for the Savannah Fair Association. The
machinery. the agricultural and the wo-
mans and fine arts buildings, the grand
stand the offices. the judges stand. the
| bandstand, the stables. the piscatorial
building and the fences were all included
| In the bids. of which four were submit
ted. The award was not made yesterday
but probably will be this afternoon at 5
| O'Clock, when meeting OF the board of
directors will be held.
one OF the contractors was way up in
the air. lie wanted more than $4,000 Cor