The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-09-20
THE FLORIDA
| STATE FAIR
General Manager HeaIGy will
be Here
AT SATURDAYS MEETING
Leon County Must be Represented
He Says.

Major Geo. P. Healy, of DeLand.
general manager of the Florida State
Fair, whose headquarters are now in
Jacksonville, was in the city WedneS-
day, and called at the Office OF the Tai :
lahasseean. He came in the interests
of the fair, and especially to see and
talk with those having the general di-
rection, and most interested parties, in
the exhibits from Leon county. He
said:
Leon county is the leading and the
capital county Of the State, and she
ought to be represented by the best
exhibition in the State. The fair is
an assured success; there is no doubt
of that. Twenty counties have al
ready made appropriations for their
exhibits, and we will have by the 1st
of October five or six more that have
promised exhibits that we KNOW OF
and we don't know how many more
will be in by that time
''The fair is held in the farming
interests of the State. We are trying
to awaken new interest in what We
believe to be the new agriculture of
the State and especially the raising Of
stock animals, and the meat industry
of the State. We think that the mid
die and the middle western counties
will be the banner counties for pro-
ducing meat, both pork and beef. We
are going to show at the fair that this
can be done and done better and
| cheaper than in any other State in the
Union. The velvet bean and caSsava
! grown in Florida furnishes the best
! food for such animals, and beef and
pork animals raised and fattened on
it produce a high quality OF meat \, e
have the best beef pastures in the
world We want to draw QUE people
away from depending entirely upon
Specialties, such as oranges and cot
ton, to a certain extent, and to show
them that they can make a living at
home.
"All county exhibits are carried to
the fair free of charge, and anything.
that they don't care to send back which
would include anything but live stock,
can be sold there at a good price. Then
the live stock can be sold, besides.
Hogs and cattle from all over the
State can be sold. My Office is full
of inquiries now from people wanting
cattle.
I'VE feel that Tallahassee ought to
be there: that Leon county ought to
be there. This is a State fair under
State appropriation, and this is the
capital city. We will give the county
all the sDace she wants, and do a. We
can to help her in any way She wants
we liant the people to distinctly
understood that all the work of the
State fair is done gratuitOusly. we
have only $2,5vJ igven to US by the
State, and that is less money than al
most aily county gets in any other
State to hold a county fair.
'When we proposed the fair Jack
sonville was to give US $4,000, but
after the fire we refused to take this.
We couldn't do it in the face OF that
city's great calamity. We are now
doing everything out Of that S2,5OO-
There are many of course, ln.-viduaI
subscriptions, bue we are at present
doing everything out Of that 81, 500
We want thepeOpie of Leon county and
of every other county to thoroughly
understand that this is a farmers fair.
we want to revOlutionize the farming
: industry Of the State of Florida.
REPRESENTATIVES, of Armour :and
, Cudahy meat men told me the other
night that they were SATISFIED that N
less than five years Florida would be
hacking meat for the whole country.
They think she is particularly adapted
to the production of the best beef and
pork in the world. The introduction
of blooded cattle will make it pos
sible.
II think that $500 will carry Leon
county through. We want them 70
understand that not one cent of this
money will go to the State fair, but to
some man who will use it entirely for
the county exhibit, and to pay for
, hauling the exhibits, and not to the
fair. Everything connected with the
fair is done gratuitOusly. Let the ex-
.hibitors from all over the county
bring their exhibits to one central
pbint, say Tallahassee, and pay lhem
fdr hauling it there, then the RAILROADS
akree to take everything FROM one
central point and ship it to the fSir at
Jacksonville free of cost. There Will
be no difficulty in selling almost
everything they can bring. Let there
BE one thoroughly competent man 70
Handle the whole and to come TO
Jacksonville and take care OF it, to
have the whole management, in. tact'
and we will do all that we can to help
> you"