The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-21
FOR GEORGIA'S GOOD
EVERY COUNTY SHOULD BE REP
RESENTED AT EXPOSITION.
TO STUDY FARMING METHODS
AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION
AMONG THEIR NEIGHBORS.

This the Opinion of Mr.. John NJ.
Egan, Just Home After n Trip to
st. Louis ad the West-BeIieves
Exposition VIII Be Smaller Than
That of Chicago But Will BE It's
Equal In Interest-FOund West In
Most Prosperous Condition and At
tributes Condition to Prosperity
of Farmers-NO. Money Stringency ,
In Chicago.
Mr.. John NJ. Egan returned to Savan-
nah yesterday morning, after an ex-
tended and interesting trip that took
him as far as Chicago and which in
Guided stops at Atlanta, st. Louis, Kan
sas City, st. Joseph, Mo-, and Amboy,
ILL.,, the latter place being his former
home.
Mr.. Egan was particularly impressed
with the growth of the country, much
of which he has not visited before this
trip since he left it, some nine years
ago, and with the possibilities from an
industrial educational standpoint of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be
held in St. Louis the coming year.
Speaking of the exposition, Mr.. Egan
said that while he doubts if it will be
as large as that given in Chicago sew
eral years ago, yet, because of the ex-
hibits showing the progress that has
been made in the mechanical and in
dustrial lines, it will be quite as in
teresting and instructive as the earlier
event, and will be of an Importance
that no state can afford not to be repre-
scented.
What Georgia Should Do.
In reference to Georgia, Mr.. Egan says
it would be an excellent idea not to
stop simply with having a Georgia
building and an exhibit of the products
but that every county in the state
should, in his opinion, do well to be
represented by one or more representa-
tive and practical farmers who should
study the exhibits relating to farming
and kindred subjects with a view of
disseminating information among their
neighbors later.
Great preparations are being made
by ST. Louis for the reception and en-
tertainment of her guests, Mr.. Egan
says. Many new buildings are in the
enlarged, and, to save a congestion
at that place, an arrangement has been
made whereby incoming trains from
the East and South, can be run di-
rect to the exposition grounds, via the
North or Merchants Bridge.
West Most Prosperous.
Mr.. Egan was amazed at the pro-
gress that certain parts of the West
have made in the last few years and
at the prosperity that that part of the
country is now enjoying. He attrib-
uted it all to the prosperity of the
farming class, for, he said, it has been
his experience that where the farmers
are prosperous the other businesses
thrive, and that where farming suf-
fers all other businesses are depressed.
AS showing something of the growth
of st. Joseph he said that while nine
years ago it had a population of some
$1,000, it now has q population of 1O3,
900, and that its prosperity has grown
with its population. Among the prin-
cipal reasons for this development is
the attention that is paid to cattle
raising, to the production of dairy
products and to farming. One dairy
that Mr.. Egan visited is now produc-
ing three carloads of butter a week
and is now adding to it's plant so that
it will shortly be able to produce a
carload a day. Mr.. Egan was much
interested in one of the articles used
by the farmers for supplying cream
to this dairy a separator that secures
all cream from the milk at the rate
of a gallon of milk minute. The
cream goes to the dairy and the milk
is used by the farmers for feeding
calves and pigs.
Another institution that Mr. Egan
visited and in which he found much
to admire and to commend to other
sections of the country, was a large
cold storage warehouse in which farm
ers store everything that ordinarily
is perishable, but which may be pre-
served by low temperature. Among
the articles kept in the warehouse
were hundreds of barrels of apples,
countless eggs, tons of candy being
kept for the holiday trade and numer-
Gus other things.
bees In Cold Storge.
In the whole collection. however the
queerest thing was a lot OF bee hives
filled with alternating bees. The little
workers are kept nj a temperature
that assures continuance OF the dor
mant state. The advantage of the ar
rangement, n was explained, Is that
by this method the bees require little
or no honey and that they are not
lured forth az an unseasonable time
by a spell Of few warm days and are
thus saved probably not only their
lives. but much miadirected energy.
IN this connection Mr., EEan related
"A story that was told him by the man
that made the experiment This man