Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-12-05
SOUTHERN CORN SHOW
TO OPEN ON TUESDAY
Exhibits viii Compose an
Agricultural Display I'm
quaIed in Every Detail

The Southern Germ show for the en-
couragement and promotion Of the cul-
ture OF corn will begin at the auditorium
Tuesday morning at 10 O'clock and will
continue durink Wednesday. Thursday
and friday.
The exhibit OF the State College Of Ag-
riculture has been installed, and othe
displays are being put in place. BY
Tuesday morning the auditorium viii
be furnished with the most complete ana
effective display of corn that has eyel
been assembled and offered for exposi-
ton in any state.
This show is part OF an agriculture
effort that will have an immediate and
be felt throughout the south. 1t vii
be the means and incentive toward the
greater diversihcation of crops. and thu
preparation of a defense against the cot
ton boil weeyn.
In addition to being Significant and i'm
portant, the show will be unusual and
interesting. Besides the exhibits, further
terest.
On Wednesday, the principal day. a
parade of 100 men and boys, headed by
King Corn, win pass through the bust
ness section and will conclude at the
auditorium. Immediately after the pa
rade Gov. Judson Harmon, of OHIO, WA
speak at the auditorium.
800 BOYS COMING.
Three hundred and sixty boys that are
members OF county corn clubs and
girls will attend the show. These Wis
Itors will arrive Tuesday and Wednes-
day, and win be received as guests of the
city and taken for entertainment to the
homes of different citizens.
At a meeting ar l O'Clock yesterday,
the Junior Order of the Chamber OF
Commerce appointed committees to meet
the boys and girls and take them to the
homes at which they will be entertained
during the show. These committees VII.
be at the Union and Terminal stations
on Tuesday and Wednesday and will re-
eeive the boys and girls as they arrive.
Automobiles will be waiting, in which
the guests viii be taken to the homes
that have been provided for them.
An effort has been made to assign
members of the same club to one neigh
borhood in order that their pleasureNand
convenience may be increased. In this
endeavor the chamber of commerce has
been so far successful that the visitors
will be gathered in groups representing
the different corn clubs.
The $50 boys that are expected will
come from 30 countless and "A girls viii
arrive from every part of the state. To-
gether they will represent all the corn
clubs in Georgia, and the canning clubs
that have been formed among girls.
INTERESTING PARADE
In the parade on Wednesday they will
compose one of the most interesting
parts OF the procession. Maj. Van Holt
Nash viii be grand marshal OF this pa
rade. 1t will form at o'clock on Peach
tree street at Baker, and viii proceed
out Peachtree and whitehall streets to
Mitchell. Mitchell to Washington, and
Washington to the auditorium. zN
At the conclusion of the parade Gov.
Judson Harmon, OF Ohio. viii speak at
the auditorium.
On Tuesday a program of addresses
and demonstrations of the growth ana
use OF corn will be observed. In every
detail, the events of the day will be
keenly Interesting, and they will be
followed on remaining days of the show
by programs that will be equally inter.
esting.
Through the inducement of mum.
Der OF premiums complete exhibition
Of the corn production of the state has
been secured, and supplementing this
will be exhibits in Taft hall of farming
implements for the cultivation of corn
and demonstrations in the main audi
forum of the numerous methods of
preparing corn.
The arena In the main hall and the
large stage will be taken UP eompletoy
with corn exhibits The exhibits al
1 raa6U an
interesting exhibit and. when complete,
will furnish an agricultural display
unique in extent and detail
ANNOUNCEMENT OF SHOW.
In announcing the show, the cham
Der of commerce has stated:
This is the first attempt at holding
great corn exposition which should
include all the distinctly cotton grow.
ing states. Its object is to encourage
the growing of corn and help to free
the south from the misfortune Of the
single crop system.
1T is confidently believed that this
corn show will demonstrate to the pub
lie what careful observers have long
known. The south is the real corn belt
Of this continent. When cost of pro-
duction and value of investment are
considered, the cotton states are really
corn states. The corn show is a means
tOWdTu olNeTSlIlCallO4 ana It's attenQ-
ant Independence. The real signifi-
canoe of this matter hes in a further
fact. The spread of the cotton boil
weevil over the whole cotton section as
inevitable. 1T will reach Georgia in
three years or less, and then on over
the Caro1inas
"Al the effort and treasure expend-
ed in the study of this pest have thus
far utterly failed to find any protec
ton against its ravages. except through
diversification and the practice of
good farming. This means corn, more
corn, better corn. Hence the southern
corn show. Hence the interest of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Begin.
ming. a year ago, the standing commit
tee on agriculture has made the corn
show its special feature and work. 1t
has the most hearty and active cooper
alton Of all the officers of the cham
Der, together with the liberal financial
assistance of the whole chamber and
the business men of Atlanta