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Flour mills and grain elevators are fast mul tiplying in Georgia, keeping pace with in creased wheat acreage. The fall of 1916 finds Georgia farmers plant ing winter grains more extensively than ever before. Atlanta has one of the largest flour mills south of the Ohio, loith daily capacity of 2,000 barrels of flour, 5,000 bushels of meal ana grits, ana 70 tons of other feed. Two large mills in Macon, both serving a wide terri tory, give preference to home grown corn and wheat. In Columbus are two well-equipped flour mills, with daily capacities of 500 bar rels of flour and 8,000 bushels of meal each. 124 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA The Georgia State Fair at Macon The Georgia State Fair, field annually at Macon, under the auspices of the State Agricultural Society, is the only State Fair in existence that is self-sustaining. It is an established financial success, receives no government assistance, and pays the regular State licenses and taxes required of all shows and exhibition concessions. The sixty-second annual fair, in 1916, was the largest agricultural and live stock exhibition ever held in the South. Most of the twenty separate county exhibits would have made creditable fairs by themselves. Among the individual exhibits were 465 hogs of all classes, and 438 cattle, -both beef and dairy, including the finest herd of Shorthorns in the United States, in open competition for cash premiums. The permanent fair grounds are spacious and include a mile race course. The buildings are substantial and conveniently grouped. The officers of the Fair Association are: Julius H. Otto, president; Chas. B. Lewis, treasurer; Harry C. Robert, secretary and general manager. The Georgia State Fair was organized under an oak tree at Stone Mountain, DeKalb county, in 1846, and was held at Stone Mountain annually for three years, after which, with several intervening years at Atlanta, Savannah, Valdosta, etc., the per manent meeting place was established at Macon. There is a legend that at the first fair at Stone Mountain, there were only two exhibits, a jackass and a large pumpkin. The groom of the jack was a negro of 84 years, who had been a personal attendant of George Washington. The story goes that the groom fell asleep, the jack jumped the fence, ate the pumpkin and took to the woods, whereupon the fair was declared officially adjourned for the year. Southeastern Fair at Atlanta The Southeastern Fair at Atlanta was organized under the auspices of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce as a permanent annual agricultural and industrial exhibition, modeled after the famous Canadian National Exposition at Toronto, and the Fair at Dallas, Texas. It has been planned on a broad scale, and while two large permanent buildings were completed that year in time to hold there the usual corn and pig club show and an exhibit of Hereford cattle, the first complete exhibition on the new site was in the fall of 1916, when a number of substantial buildings had been added, a mile race track completed and the grounds extensively improved.
FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 125 Lakewood Park, the site of the fair, covers 380 acres of natural ' wood and meadow lands, with a beautiful lake of 62 acres. It is an ideal fair ground, and easy of access from the city by several boulevards and street car lines. The race track is con structed around the lake, the slope of the surrounding hillsides providing a huge natural amphitheater. The lake and track will provide an immense outdoor stage for spectacular pageants. The City of Atlanta, the County of Fulton and the citizens supplied $300,000 to put into buildings and improvements, with out indebtedness. The project originated with and is sponsored by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and is a development of the annual corn show that has been held in that city for several years. Its plans are securely laid for a permanent fair of con siderable magnitude and of lasting benefit to the whole South. It is the purpose of the Fair management to encourage agricul tural, horticultural and live stock production by offering liberal cash premiums, to promote the work of the boys' corn and the girls' canning clubs, and, through a special educational department, to foster a quickened interest in these subjects in the schools. The officers of the Southeastern Fair are H. G. Hastings, presi dent, and R. M. Striplin, general manager. County and District Fairs In addition to the Georgia State Fair at Macon and the South eastern Fair at Atlanta, the following district and county fairs are held annually in the State: Agricultural Fair, Hahira, W. W. Webb, president. A. & M. Fair, Carrpllton, John Matthews, secretary. Bartow County Fair, Cartersville, B. C. Sloan, secretary. Butts County Fair, Jackson, J. O. Gaston, commissioner. Coffee County Fair, Douglas, J. W. Quincy, chairman. Third Agricultural Dist. Fair, P. A. Fenimore, Sec.-Mgr., Americus. Decatur Co. Fair, Bainbridge, Quimby Melton, Secretary. Dooly Co. Fair, Vienna, C. B. Culpepper, Secretary. East Georgia Fair, Washington, J. Luke Burdett, secretary. Four Counties Fair, Commerce, J. F. Shannon, secretary. Georgia-Carolina Fair, Augusta, F. E. Beane, secretary. Georgia-Florida Fair, Valdosta, J. M. Ashley, secretary. Gordon County Fair, Calhoun, H. J. Roff, secretary. Griffin-Spaulding Fair, Griffin, E. P. Bridges, secretary. Haralson County Fair, Bremen, E. C. Welch, secretary. Hart County Fair, Hartwell, J. H. Warren, secretary. Lee County Fair, Leesburg, J. G. Pruet, president. Murray County Fair, Eton, E. H. Beaver, secretary. North Georgia Fair, Winder, G. W. Woodruff, manager. Savannah Fair, Savannah, George R. Herbert, general manager. Southwest Ga. Fair, Donalsonville, W. H. Van Landingham, sec. Tattnall County Fair, Reidsville, L. M. Rhoden, secretary. Taylor County Fair, Butler, Ira Chambers, secretary. Terrell County Fair, Dawson, Mrs. L. Lomor, secretary. Troup County Fair, LaGrange, V. R. O'Neal, secretary. Twelfth District Fair, Dublin, Ross Jordan, manager. Walton County Fair, Monroe, Eugene Baker, secretary. Wayne County Fair, Jesup, B. D. Purcell, secretary. Whitfield County Fair, Dalton, H. L. Smith, chairman. The famous Pied mont ridge extends from Atlanta to and through the east side of Decatur in the south east corner of the State. In Decatur county it is 325 feet above the sea level. One could travel on this ridge from At lanta to the Florida- Alabama corner with out crossing any stream. This can be ver ified by the state map. The lands on this ridge are comparatively level, with a pebbly clay formation, extremely productive and with plenty of good water, clear and healthful; the wells running at about 44 feet in depth. In this superb climate old age holds no terrors.
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