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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Greatest and Most Marvelous of
All Celebrations, Opens Completed In Every Detail on Feb. 20, 1915
Forty of the World’s Great Nations to Join With America In Celebrating the Opening of the
Panama Canal In a Conclave Unsurpassed In History.
gjd International Exposition’s Amusements
Novel and Wonderful
Pr-sident Wilson Will Visit Panama-Pacific Display of Nations via Panama Canal—Vanderbilt
Cup Race and Grand Prix Will Be Held In San Francisco.
L 1*4/ . -V* By o HAMILTON N D E K F U WRIGHT. L and
W amusements, parades
V pageants of the
eountries, auto and
races and athletic contests will be
served upon a scale of
magnitude and grandeur at the
ma-! ’acific International
The extensive participation of
japan. Siam and Iudo and Cochin
u a. when taken in connection
the plans already made and with
interesting oriental population of
Francisco, assures such spectacles
have never before been seen in the
cident. Pageants of miles in
set off by wonderful floats and
velous pyrotechnics will wind
the streets of San Francisco.
There will be held throughout
L fjMS&RFlJL GLASS DOME OF THE PALACE OF HORTICULTURE, PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERN A
-7 ^ TI0NAI. EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915.
4 palace of Horticulture, looking through the ^ourt of Palms. This beautiful structure has a glass dome 1X5
fe feet hiJi and 152 feet Ifi diameter. Crowning the dome is a huge basket. The general style of the architecture
is is the French renaissance, with Saracenic modification. The extreme length of the palace is t»72 feet and meadth
320 a: feet
entire period of the Exposition, which
opens Feb. 20. 1915, a series of great
tjveuts. including sports and athleti
contests of many kinds conducted upon
a scale of great magnitude.
The Vanderbilt Automobile Cup
ltuce and the Grand Prix, the two su
preme events of the automobile year,
will he held upon a four mile course,
embracing a circuit of the Exposition
palaces, a spectacular background far
excelling in beauty and grandeur any
which ancient Rome beheld during its
historic chariot races. races The Vauder
kilt Cup Race will take place on Feb
2- and the Grand prix on Feb 27.
11)15. Great motorboats of the deep
sea cruiser type will race for a $l(MX)u
prize from New York through the Pan¬
ama canal to the Golden Gate. A se¬
ries of international yacht races in
the twenty-one meter class will be
held in San Francisco bay. President
Woodrow Wilson. Emperor William of
Germany and King George of England
have each offered trophies in these
events Swimming, water polo, fly
easting, canoeing, football, baseball
and long distance foot racing are in¬
cluded in a series of more than 2(H) dif¬
ferent kinds of contests. President
Wilson himself will attend the Expo¬
sition. and it is probable the members
of congress will attend in an especial¬
ly chartered steamer
Of international interest will be the
greatest live stock show in the world’s
history. More than $500,000 will he
awarded in prizes in a continuous live
sto.-k exhibit. Rare and valuable
breeds of all kinds of live stock from
distant countries of the globe will be
shown. Specimens of the famous
* biilingham wild white cattle will
exhibited for the first time. With
exception of two specimens at the
t 1 ' 1 'bis breed has been
shown . never
outside 0 f Chillingham
■ ug and These cattle are pure white,
with black noses, black tips to the
a “‘ lll:lrk horns. An
'keep shearing contest will be one
the unique exhibitions.
h^nViiit Vestivin t mU f K ( ‘ al ^Cul eveuts there ?
kfheent
grounds This Is equipped with a
' ;1 |I|,H ‘°rgan, upon which Mr. Ed
n . u-uiaro.
' world famous
;unmg rent other ;' ls celebrities, T,1 International will give a se
t , lt , - e Els
I' 1 ' 1 at Sau FTanciseo com
net f aniS?’ 000 tn cash (1rizes
than 1 - *0 Singers will participate -
tills event. The famous Salt Lake;
Mormon choir, the deep toned plaintive 1
singers of Hawaii and even a chorus
of fifty .Mnorian singers will take part
in the choral events. At an expend)
tore of $1,250,000 the Exposition has
constructed a great Auditorium in the
civic center of San Francisco, which
wili be used by the great conventions
and song festivals. Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Crane will present their latest 1
terpsichorean novelty, the “Exposition
Tango;’’ Mr. Harry Lauder will sing I
the Exposition ballad.
The amusement section of the Ex¬
position, the “Zone,” corresponding to
the famous “Midway" at the World’s
Columbian Exposition at Chicago, will
carry out the purpose of the Exposition
to give every feature a high educa¬
tional value.
imagine, for the purposes of illustra
tion. the interest, action and
of ten great circuses like Barnum
! Bailey’s combined into a single
est show on earth” and presented
ten times the cost of the single pro¬
duction and an idea is gained of
originality of this section. A total
more than eleven millions of
has been expended in its establishment,
The concessions, as these less
j ! features of the Exposition are
include a great open air panoramic
| reproduction of the Yellowtone Na¬
tional park and a similar
tion of the Grand Canyon of
presented by two of the transcon
j
VAST TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT THE WORLD'S GREATEST EXPOS!
TION, THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
FAN FRANCISCO, 1915.
i Arch of the Setting Sun in the west entrance to the Court of the i’m
verse at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Surmounting the o '
is a group of statuary representing "The Nations of the West.” In the mid :
1 of the group is an emigrant wagon drawn by oxen. Riding m this tn
figure of a woman, “The Mother ot Tomorrow,” and by her side are two -•in
! dren. “The Hopes of Tomorrow.” Other figures represent an American In
1 dian, Mexican, Alaskan and other American types.
a an
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 ,1915.
railways. The 1 Grand Canyon
is built upon so prodigious
scale that visitors will view the
anvases from a standard gauge rail¬
way coach running on a standard
track. A huge working model
of tite Panama canal is so extensive
visitors seated in comfortable the¬
chairs will be carried along the
route of the canal upon a movable
platform, and a dictaphone at the arm
each chair will describe each scene
as it comes into view. A novel amuse¬
ment feature will be provided by work
ing submarine boats of sixty-five tons
which will operate in an
artificial lagoon. The Aeroscope, a
huge inverted pendulum, operating like
giant seesaw, with a great balancing
weight on the short end and a car for
passengers at the extremity of its long-
; er arm, will raise sightseers more than
j 325 feet above San Francisco bay
\ affording an unsurpassed view of the
Exposition City and the GoliVcn Gate.
Apart from the amusements, conven
tions and congresses, the vast pageants,
j j the the magnificent superb pavilions of buildings, the nations the and Ex
state
| position itself is a sight well worth
seeing. The giant exhibit palaces, the
loftiest and most imposing exposition
buildings ever constructed, are in their
architecture representative of the finest
work of a commission of famous Amer¬
ican architects, who freely collaborated
with distinguished members of this pro¬
fession abroad.
Time To Start Dairying
Professors Pike and Howell, Depart¬
ment of Dairying, Georgia State
College of Agriculture
A review of the history of farming
in every country shows that the early
settlers followed the lines of least
resistance. They robbed the land by
continual cropping and soon found
that their soil was depleted of fer¬
tility. The result was that a change
in their system of farming became
necessary and they turned to the dairy
industry as being the most logical
change. The same condition applies
to Georgia. She is doubtless chang¬
ing her system of farming and dairy¬
ing is being welcomed. Why?
1. Because the soil fertility is
served and increased. Selling cotton
or grain is selling fertility and
ing out humus. A ton of cotton seed
meal is worth, at present prices of
nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash,
about $30, which is above the average
selling price. A ton of butter at 30c
a pound is worth $600, and contains
64c worth of fertility. Why not feed
the meal and sell the butter? Each
cow kept saves $30 on the year’s fer¬
tilizer bill.
2. Dairying is adapted to high price
land. Land on the Isle of Jersey, the
annual rental of which is about $50
an acre, is used for keeping Jersey
cows. Land in Holland worth $1,200
to $2,000 an acre, is used almost ex¬
clusively for dairying. If Germany
and Holland with their high priced
land can buy our cotton seed cake,
ship it across the Atlantic, feed it to
cows and send the butter back to us
at a profit; why can’t we make money
with home grown feed and a local
ket? We can, and we are going
do it.
3. The returns are constant and
tain. The dairyman’s check comes
ten. He doesn't have to
his crop before it is made. The
ry man can systematize his
He can tell what each cow is
There need not be any guess
Look about you today. The
profits to be derived from this type
farming is seen in the general
perity of the dairyman in
with his neighbors who still
TREATING SEED IRISH POTATOES
T. H. McHatton, Professor Horticul¬
ture, Georgia State Col. of Agr.
Irish potato scab, one of the most
serious diseases affecting Irish pota
toes, is a fungus disease that can be
carried to a field on the seed planted.
Value of Hog Cholera Serum Work
In Georgia
Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of
Agriculture.
The farm demonstration agents of
Georgia inoculated 21,200 hogs against
cholera last year with excellent re¬
sults.
The State of Georgia manufactures
the serum and distributes it at cost
to the farmers of Georgia. The plant
at which this serum is made is lo¬
cated at the College of Agriculture.
Its capacity is about one million cubic
centimeters a year, or enough to in¬
oculate 85,000 one hundred pound
hogs. Many more, of course, could
be inoculated if they are pigs. At
this rate about $600,000 worth of hogs
are protected annually from cholera.
By stopping the disease, of course, its
spread is checked and vastly more
saving is made than Is represented
by the value of the hogs inoculated.
The serum is offered to the farmer
at 1 1-2 cents per cubic centimeter,
though it is probable that a reduction
in price will be made by the first of
January. At the present rate, the
inoculation of a 100-pound hog costs
60 cents. Commercial serums have
been sold in Georgia at less cost. The
difference in the cost of the state
serum and the ordinary commercial
serum exists mainly in the fact that
the state conducts elaborate tests so
that it can guarantee the serum as
being potent, that is, equal to doing
what is claimed for it. It is the only
way to be sure that the remedy is ef¬
fective.
An instance has come to the notice
of the College of a farmer applying
state-tested serum to a part of his
herd and commercial serum to the
balance, with the result that all treat¬
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How Foot and Mouth Disease
May Effect Georgia
Dr. W. NL Burson, Professor of Veter¬
inary Science, Georgia State Col¬
lege of Agriculture
By reason of the existence of the
foot and mouth disease in a great sec¬
tion of the United States and the con¬
sequent quarantine on cattle, feed and
other shipments, Georgia will suffer
in two ways in particular. Those who
would buy pure bred live stock, cattle
or horses for starting into live stock
business in lieu of continuing the
growing of unprofitable cotton, are
barred by the quarantine from get¬
ting into the best markets. Also,
those who have to buy feed stuff will
find that the embargo placed upon
hay from foot and mouth territory
will have affected the price. If the
Georgia farmer has hay to sell, of
course, the hay quarantine in the
north and west will serve him well.
It is important that the Georgia
farmer should keep a look out for
symptoms of the disease among live
stock. It is the most highly conta¬
gious of all diseases and apparently
is caused by an organism too small
for the highest power microscope to
detect. It attacks split-hoof animals
and is transmissible to human be¬
ings.
The disease is characterized by
blisters in mouth, nostrils, between
the claws, around dew claws and on
•udder and teats of cows. The blis¬
ters hurst and leave raw sores pre¬
venting cattle from eating rough feed.
They keep their mouths closed and oc¬
casionally smack the lips and drivel
saliva. Farmers should not confuse
foot and mouth disease with cow pox
which also produces blisters, nor foul
moth which affects the legs with
lameness, nor with Mycotic Stomatitis,
a disease caused by fungus in pas¬
tures affecting cattle more like foot
and mouth disease than any other
trouble.
If in doubt, call a veterinarian and
let him make the diagnosis.
More than $10,400 income was re¬
ceived from the 343 acres and live
stock of the College farm during the
past year. The dairy was the best
revenue producer. Of course the farm
is meeting all of its expense and is
paying handsomely. Six years ago
To combat it, a rotation of crops
should be practiced and the seed used
should be treated as follows: Put one
pint of 40 per cent formalin into
from 35 to 40 gallons of water. Put
the seed into this solution before they
are cut and let them remain for about
three hours. Remove, dry and cut into
seed.
ed by state serum were saved and
all given untested commercial serum
died of cholera.
Some commercial serum plants have
been shut down by federal authorities
because it had been found that they
had spread the foot and mouth dis¬
ease. These facts are not mentioned
to injure worthy commercial concerns,
but to warn farmers that they may
protect themselves and the growing
live stock industry of the state, es¬
pecially in view of the fact that the
demand for serum in the state may
outgrow the present capacity of the
state plant to manufacture it.
The law provides that serum manu¬
factured by the state shall be distrib¬
uted to the farmers through the of¬
fice of the state veterinarian.
It has not always been possible to
meet the demands for serum in Geor¬
gia, nor will there ie a guarantee
that there wiil be sufficient manufac¬
tured by the state to meet its own
demands until the capacity of the
plant is enla ged. The larger the
amount of serum manufactured the
less it will cost. Therefore, the most
direct and effective means of getting
tested serum at a lower cost will be
by obtaining a larger appropriation
from the state.
Meanwlii c, it is the right of every
citizen of Georgia to have some of
the serum which the state manufac¬
tures, backed by its guarantee, if it
is possible to get it. Should a farmer
not be able to get it and other serum
is recommended, he should ascertain
that it has been tested on hogs affect¬
ed with cholera before using it.
PAGE FTVB
THE PATRIOTIC
War Revenue Tax of $105,000,000
Levied—Beer Bears Brunt
of Burden.
Congress has levied a war tax
of $105,000,000 to offset a similar
amount of loss on import revenue
due to the European disturbances
and of this amount beer is the
heaviest contributor, having been
assessed approximately, $50,000,
000; a stamp tax on negotiable
instruments, it is estimated, wilt
yield $31,000,000; a tax on the
capital stock of banks of $4,300,
000, and a tax on tobacco, per¬
fumes, theater tickets, etc., makes
the remainder.
Congress has decreed that the
brewer, the banker and the in¬
vestor must shoulder the musket
and march to the front; that mi-*
lady who would add to her beau¬
ty must first tip Uncle Sam, and
a dollar that seeks pleasure must
first salute the flag; that Pleasure
and Profit—the twin heroes of
many wars—shall fight the na¬
tion’s battles and by an inge¬
niously arranged schedule of tax¬
ation Congress has shifted the
war of budget from the shoulders*
Necessity to those of Choice
and Gain, touching in its various
ramifications almost every line
of business.
All hail the dollar that bleeds
for its country; that bares its
breast to the fortunes of war and
risks its life to preserve the sta¬
bility and integrity of the nation’s
credit.
1 he market place has always
been a favorite stand for war rev¬
enue collectors. The trader is a
great financial patriot. His dol¬
lar is the first to rally around the
star-spangled banner and the last
to hear the coo of the dove of
peace. He is called upon to buy
cannon; to feed and clothe the
boys in blue and each month
cheer their hearts with the coin
of the realm. Men can neither be
free nor brave without food and
ammunition, and money is as im¬
portant a factor in war as blood.
Many monuments have been
erected in honor of heroes slain
in battle, poems have been writ¬
and ten eulogizing the their noble deeds
nation honors its soldiers
while they live and places a mon¬
ument upon their graves when
they die, but very little has been
said of the dollar that bears the
burdens of war.
Honor to the Dollar That Bears
the Burdens of War.
All honor to the dollar that an
swets the call to arms and, when
the battle is over, bandag’es the
wounds of stricken soldiers, lays
a wreath upon the graves of fall¬
en heroes and cares for the
widows and orphans.
All honor to the industries that
bend their backs under the burd¬
ens of war; lift the weight from
the shoulders of the poor and
build a bulwark around the na¬
tion’s credit.
All honor to those who con¬
tribute to the necessities and ad¬
minister to the comforts of the
boys who are marching; cool the
fever of afflicted soldiers and
kneel with the cross beside dyimr
heroes.
dollar may fight its compet¬
itor . in business,
struggle for industries may
supremacy in trade
and occupations may view each
other with envy or suspicion, but
when the bugle calls they bury
stt tfe and rally around the flag
companions and friends, mess
mates and chums, all fighting for
one flag, one cause and one coun¬
try.
The luxuries in life have al¬
ways been the great burden-bear¬
ers in government. We will men¬
tion a few of them giving the
annual contributions to the na¬
tion’s treasury; Liquor, $250,
000,000; tobacco, $103,000,000:
sugar, $54,000,000; silks. $15,500,
000; diamonds, $3,837,000; mil¬
linery, $2,479,000; furs, $2,024,
000 and automobiles $870,000.
The real problem of the farmer
is how to sell his ptoducts.
