The farmer and mechanic., 1914-03-03
ADVERTISE SOUTH
To THECOUNTRY
An Exposition On Wheels
Which Will Go Out at Close
of Panama Exposition


ern expositions on wheels will roll out
Of San Francisco after the close o.
the Panama Exposition TO traverse
Canada and the entire United States
outside the South. according to plans
now in preparation by the southern
Settlement and Development OrganI-
ZatiOn- Il
Each train will be composed or
specially equipped display cars IN
| which will be exhibited the agricui-
| tural and industrial products or the
South arranged in State groups ano
/ will carry corps OF lecturers anu
motion picture machine operators 8
| Two OF the trains will invade CANADA,
moving to the far East ana returning
to the South through New England,
! New York New Jersey, and PennSyt-
| vania. The others will be moved
through the West and Middle West
The entire enterprise will be under
the supervision of w. II. Manss, vice.
president and general manager Of the
Southern Settlement and Development
Organization, who, when industrial
commissioner Of the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad, got up
and operated the first seed corn special
ever put out on a railroad.
| Stereopticon lectures and motion
pictures will play an important part
in this publicity campaign and
unique feature will be what might be
called "a continuous performance OF
live agricultural exhibits" The Pan
: anna Exposition will close its doors
. December 4th, 1915, when the terri
, tory through which the moving ex-
/ POSITIONS will travel will be covered
! with snow and when the men of the
t Southland are shipping their garden
and grove products. The coincidence
offers an opportunity for visualizing
: the contrast between the genial winter
weather of the South and the biz
G zard chilled winter of the North
4 which can be used most effectively. 1t
r | is designed to have expressed, at fire.
h quent intervals, fresh picked citrus
t fruits flowers grown out Of doors, and
S garden truck, to the exposition trains
It and the Canadian and Northern farm
t ers will be shown that the fruits.
flowers, and vegetables were gathered
s not more than two weeks previously.
: In the cars by means of large photo
: graphs and on the stereopticon
e screens and through the motion pic
d ture films will be shown cattle feed
II ing in the open pastures during De-
IS cember, January and February and
d at the same time will be displayed
y photographs and slides of northern
Is and Canadian pastures snow bound
II and winter scenes in the North, the
6 purpose being to drive home the fact
that in the South the farmer fruit
grower, truck gardener, livestock
% raiser, dairy farmer and poultry raiser
can work his farm almost twelve
:, months each year.
r The principal feature, however, OF
g the travelling expositions will be the
0. agricultural displays designed te
y show the manifold possibilities in the
h South for general farming, live stock
90 and hog raising. The exhibits of corn
Of other cereals, cotton and forage
e. crops will be made especially strons
90 and comprehensive. The TRAVELLING
10 leXpositions will tour sections of tht
IN country where the cereals and liy,
of stock are the great agricultural pro
g ducts and where farmers are accus
r TONED to working large acreages. II
cities and towns truck gardening
fruit culture. and poultry raising vii
be featured for it is known that i,
all large northern cities are thousand
OF men who are dissatisfied with tn
of present conditions md want to ow,
their own jobs. This is demonstrai
ny the 1act mat d large proportion
OF settlers who have gone into South
n ern trucking and fruit raising hay
come from large centers Of populatio,
in in Northern cities.
at In outlining the plans under CON
n temptation for the travelling exnosj
ou tiOnS, Mr.. Manss said: :
IL Exposition trains and cars ar
ef not novelties by any means for South
o ern railroads and some Southar1
IS States and counties have sent train
re and cars, arranged to exhibit South
ern products, into the North and eye
as into Canada But the South. as
n territory. with the co-ooeration =
ed States, railroads. agricultural -,
en- commercial associations, asricultnra
nd colleges and public spirited citi1an.
M working together for a common pur
ny ny poseLthe advancement OF the entir
lis south has never attempted anvtbia
int cf the kind. III II
ne 1t happens that the institufion
We the Southern Settlement and -
no no 1pm,ent a, so,1 o,T1san;,zaticn. which has p =
tly making corporation o,,era+i,,[r - o1i
le- SPECIAL charter from the z5arI-,aa si.ue
- l.es1slatare. 1 organized by leading -~ii' cit
os- zens of-the South. railroads ca,...eI. oI'
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