The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-07-04
THE STATE FAIR.
Things Needed to be Done to
Make it a Success
AN APPEAL TO The PEOPLE
To Prepare Exhibits of Every Kind
and Send Them to the Fair.

The Florida State Fair, organized by
gentlemen deeply interested in all ma
terial interests of the State, believe
that an object lesson Sucn as a State
Fair will furnish will be Of such value
to all Of her people that they may de-
pend upon the people themselves for
such hearty support that already a
complete success is assured.
Our State Fair will show not only to
our people, but to outsiders, home
seekers and investors, the magnitude
of our resources. We have never shown
either to our own people or to out
siders the extent of our raw material,
or the possibilities of our climate and
soil for immense stock productions.
By our State Fair we will show
everybody how much is being done,
and learn ourselves what more we
ought to do, to place ourselves in the
front rank of the great common
wealths of the country. There is no.
thing we so much need as the advance
ment Of our agricultural conditions.
Our people should learn how to make
them profitable.
The Fair is a great school; a series
of lectures. Here every man, woman
and child must learn something of in
terest and profit. The management
does not intend this as a street show
or hippOdrome or a circus, but State
Fair of the people for the people and
by the people. Somebody must in
terest themselves in such a movement
far enough to organize it and carry it
forward to the end; but the people of
our State must make the success, from
them only can come the support that
Will SHOW stO themselves and the world
how great State is their patrimOny.
Each and every one must bring the
signs and. handiwork of their calling
and occupation. Nothing is too great
or too small to be shown. Nothing too
Insignificant. We must live nearer
home. We must improve ourselves and
our conditions along every line. We
must learn to utilize what we produce.
AN earnest lesson taught our children
that the farm, garden and grove will
afford opportunities and independence
Of life known in no other walk.
The management of the Fair and
the pubIia kpirited people who cooper
/ ate with tenn will be more than repaid
for all their: time and money given to
the interest Of. our rural people.
We occupy a unique position in the
agricultural conditions of our country.
Our people produce from the ground
resources that no other people have.
But as we are to-day we have not
learned how to utilize what we have.
In the coming together of the farmer,
the fruit-grower and the stOckman at
our State Fair we each of us will
learn what our neighbor may be doing
and how successfully.
Every producer, farmer or grower OF
whatever kind should see and know
every Iabor-saving tool of every de-
scriptiOn, and see it in operation as
far as possible. The dairy, the apiary,
and poultry, the horses, cattle, sheep
and hogs should come together on the
farm and at annual State Fairs and at
Farmers Institutes. We must study
the economy of transmitting unavail-
able productions into marketable re-
sources. We must learn success from
ourselves, and we must bring ourselves
together, shoulder to shoulder, that we
may help each other.
Does any citizen doubt that we have
now an opportunity in our State Fair?
Let every citizen give the manage
ment their hearty cooperation and the
success will be assured.