Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-28
The State Fair and Others.

XVTEH the close of Atlantas grea
w Southeastern Fair, Macon gets un.
derway with her Georgia State Fair
and Albany launches the Albany-South Geor-
gia Fair. Others are to follow in rapid sue
cesslon,i some cities having several under
way simultaneously. Numerous fairs pre-
cede the Southeastern in Atlanta and others
follow it.
Georgia makes no better investment than
the money put into this great chain of annual
expositions showing the resources of the State
, and the Southeastern section. Their growing
attendance, growing exhibits and growing
prize lists abundantly demonstrate the fact
that public interest instead of waning is on
the increase.
They give the progressive farmer a val
liable impetus to more intensive effort along
scientific lines. The pick of his fields and
gardens placed on exhibition against the prize
crops of his neighbor may bring him sub
stantial money prize to reward his labor. II
he does not win prize he gets the stimulus
of competition, meets and mingles with other
farmers of his type who are looking forward
and striving to excel, acquires new ideas and
goes home determined to return next year
with an improved exhibit
Livestock raising no doubt would be still
an infant industry in Georgia were it not for
the immense encouragement it has received
from the annual fairs. A young south GeOr-
gian who operates his farm on strictly bust
ness lines shipped carload of registered cat
tie to Atlanta and won five hundred dollars
in prizes at the Southeastern Fair. His win
nings more than paid his expenses. From
here he shipped his cattle to the State Fair
at Macon with the expectation of winning
again. Before they get home his cattle will
be seen and admired by hundreds of farmers,
and some of them will go into the business
of replacing scrubs with thoroughbreds.
A chain of big fairs Offering big cash
prizes for cattle exhibits make it attractive
for the farmer to invest in good stock and
give them good attention. He afford to
ship them distance and put them in show
If winnings pay his transportation expenses.
him a better breeder with heightened en-
thusiasm, but his cattle on exhibit enlist the
interest of other farmers.
In an equal measure has the swine indus
try derived benefit from Georgias fairs. At
nearly every show in any part of the State are
boy exhibitors of thoroughbred hogs. These
youngsters buy a registered pig, give per-
sonal attention to it's raising, draw on their
savings to ship it to a fair, and gleefully win
ribbon with a cash prize attached Then
they go home and sell their pigs at a hand
some profit to be re-invested the following
year in a pen of registered pigs. Thus the
swine industry multiplies and expands in
arithmetical progression.
In two more years the cattle tick will be
eradicated from Georgia, according to the
plans of the state veterinarian, DR.. Peter F.
Bahnsen. The completion of this work will
remove the last obstacle to the development
of the the cattle industry and leave the road
clear to unlimited progress In another
ten years there ought to be produced nearly
enough cattle in Georgia to feed the State.
Eradication of hog cholera is more difficult
and expensive, but the work is going forward
gradually and surely.
Good luck and good weather to every fair
in Georgia. We cannot have an over-supply.
One in every COUNTY would not be too many.
They mark the miestones of progress in
Georgas advance toward agricultural
premacy.