The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-10-18
SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
OPENS IN NOVEMBER
liberal Prizes Offered BY RuraIist For
All Products Of The
Farm

Atlanta, October.-(Special.) 1.-The
first Southeastern Fair which, begin
ming with this year, is to become an
annual institution in Atlanta, and in
which all farmers and producers of
Georgia and neighboring states are in
vited to participate, will combine
three departments, including a gener-
al agricultural and horticultural ex-
hjbit, the annual Georgia Corn Show
which has been taken over by the fair
association and the live stock exhibit
ton which will be held under the aus
pieces of the Hereford Cattle Associa-
&ion. other stock organization and ex-
hibitors
The agricultural and horticultural
exhibit will be given this year under
the auspices and direction of the
Southern Ruralist, a well-known agri-
cultural publication, which has con-
tributed several thousand dollars in
prizes to be awarded to exhibitors Of
products including practically every
thing grown in the South
Two concrete structures, each af'
fording a full acre Of space, it is now
definitely announced, will be complet-
ed in time for the opening of the
fair on November 16, and in these the
exhibits of all kinds will be housed.
Prizes Are Liberal
The individual prizes will total sew
eral thousand dollars, and include
some very desirable pieces of farm
machinery, which sell as high as 5000
and S4e0. The offers made to exhibit
ors are not only most liberal, but in
every instance are larger than those
generally offered at state fairs.
THE agricultural and horticultural
exhibit will include three classes {:
Farm products, domestic products and
collective displays. This classification
is the widest possible, and provides
for the admission of every known
product of the farm, the orchard and
of the housewife.
Many products not specifically men,
tioned will come in under the collect
i've exhibits of farm and industrial
products, made by clubs, public
schools and other organizations, and
will include such displays as collec-
tions of vegetables from school gar
Gems and exhibits of market products
by cooperative marketing associa-
lions.
To Be Paid In Gold
In the foregoing classes there are
offered cash prizes aggregating $1,000
TO be paid in gold. These classes will
be open to all subscribers to the South.
ern Ruralist at fifty cents year.
and the only interest which this publ
cation has i'll offering these prizes is
the encouragement of the agricultural
communities of the south in the terri
tory lying east of the Mississippi and
south of the Potomac rivers.
That extraordinary interest attaches
to this exhibition is already demon
strated in the number of entries re-
ceived thus far in advance of the
opening of the fair. These entries in
clude farm products 800; domestic
products 200; collective exhibits IL,
making a total of 511. There is con-
slant call for application blanks, and
the indications are there will be more
than 1000 exhibitors from many south
ern states when the fair opens on No
wember 16.
The exhibition will he held in one
of the buildings now being erected
n fafr i1lD l.,
the property of the city of Atlanta
The city itself gave $75,000 Fulton
county $4,000 and individual citizens
of Atlanta subscribed some 100000,
making total of $4,000 for the
purpose of building this fair and max
ing it splendid success. Another
year it is the purpose of the Southern
Ruralist to erect special building of
ats own upon the fair grounds.
More About the Prizes
Included in the list of prize offers
are 500 in gold for the person taking
the greatest number of single prizes;
$50 in gold for the person taking the
greatest number of prizes for farm
products, and $50 in gold for the per-
son taking the greatest number of
prizes for domestic products.
Prizes for specific farm prod
ucts, usually run SIS for first and $3.50
for second, though larger in some
cases and are offered for such articles
:as the best bale of hay of nine diff
ferent varieties. Prizes are offered
for the best of each variety. Similar
prizes are offered for the best sack
of corn, oats, wheat, rye and rice,
and also for the best sheaf of each.
The prize list includes cane, sorghum,
potatoes, Irish and sweet, rutabagas,
turnips and other garden vegetables !;
nuts, fruits of all kinds, meats, sugar
and syrup and dairy products.
The collective exhibits of farm and
domestic products will draw prizes of
$50 first and $40 second, in seven or
eight classes; while the domestic ex.
hibits, with prizes from $3.50 to $40,
will include labor-saving devices. can.
med vegetables, canned fruits, pickles,
cakes, flowers, embroidery, lace, knit.
ting, dresses, articles of clothing and
the like.
The farm machinery offered in.