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SOME VALUABLE ADVICE ON THE
COBB FAIR FROM CLIFF W. FOWLER
As yet 1 have had nothing to say
about the Cobb County Fair propo
gition, for I consider that we have
people here who know more about
such things than I do and can better
tell what they do know. But for the
fact that 1 am in receipt of a letter
from the Temporary President and a’
request that I answer through our
local papers, I would not now ven
ture my ideas alonz this line, and es
pecially at close range.
It might as well be admitted th:t
most county fairs are mere make
shifts and do but little good, but 2
real live one such as Cobb is capable
of holding is one of the greatest, if
not the greatest, aids to the agri
cultural developement of America,
considered from the standpoint of
€ost,
I believe an annual fair of the
right kind in any county in Georgia
will, in three years time, increase
the value of improved live stock a
hundred fold. 1 believe it will in
crease the production of all farm pro
ducts through the use of better seeds
and fertilizers, improved implements
and thorough tillage, and do more to
eliminate the agricultural ignoranc
of the county than all the state fairs
of America, or any other one thing
can possibly do. A coumty fair to
do this good must be a county fair in
every sense of the word. It must be
conducted along broad lines for the
uplift of the county rather than for
the benefit.,, financially and other
wise, of two or three individuals, as
has nearly always been attempted in
county fairs of Georgia and other
states, This latter class almost al
ways fail, while the former are in
varibly a success. This does not
necessarily mean that they make
money, for this should be the last
consideration of such a fair. Assuc
cessful county fair i& ohe held for
the good of the people of that coun
ty and not the stockholders. Such a
fair will cause two blades of grass
to grow where only one grew before
and will cover the county with im
proved live stock in a shorter time
‘than any and all other agencies
combined.
Cobb has now for the first time, so
far as I know, organized a fair Asso
ciation along the lines as above set
out, and it is hoped that every man,
woman and child in this county, or
elsewhere, who can, will, co-operate
to make the 1914 county fair a great
success and then continue to co-oper
ate to make each future annual fair
still greater.
Some of the County’s best men are
back of the movement., The County
Commissioners are back of it and co
operation on our part will make it
what it should be. Cooperation is
the secret of success and helps ever: -
body. It helps even the few who do
not cooperate. Cooperation .means
coming together and backing up the
man in charge of such a movement.
It does not mean that every one
must dictate the policies of the Asso
ciation. Every individual “can co
operate, but they are not all so con
stituted as to be cap®le of DY iR g
on a great fair.
I feel that we have mea eonnectoad
with this Cobb County Association
who can be trusted, and that the suc
cess of the fair depends now upon
the manager, whoever he may be,
the farmers and breeders.
Fairs of like character, and also
state fairs get better the further
north and west we go, all due to a
greater interest and cooperation.
Everybody goes to the fair includ
ing the hired man and the cook. Nor-
Body stays at home. 1 know because
I have acted as hired man up the
country and was expected to go and
then 1 have eaten the scraps while
the cook took her day off at the
fair. Everybody gets the habit.
They get the ‘“Fair Fever” and we
need that in Cobb County. We will
get it OK for this 1914 fair will bel
out of the 2 x 4 class and will iw!i
worth going miles to see. i‘
Your nearest neighbor is going to)
be there and you cannot afford to he |
behind the times. He will probably |
make an exhibit of corn or cotton |
and you ought to do so. It will h-}
useless for you to stand by vour
neighbor’s exhibit and say you ha :
. better stuff at home. Kven though
You have a reputation for truthful
ness nobody will believe that stale
“gag’’. This is the ‘“‘show me’” ase
80 you had better get that corn
ready. If your corn is not good
enough to show then feed it to that
registered pig and get him ready. If
You have no purebred pig just fead
it to the scrub and come on out to
the fair next fall. We want you to
see some pigs and get out of the
scrub class. This is not all your nex’
door neighbor is going to do. He is
going to insist on the hired man go
ing and if they havn’t the money n 2
will just pay the. admission price
You will have to take your men in
gelf defense,
With the proper spirit Cobb can
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pull off as good a fair as any county
in Georgia or any other state. Cobb
can make as good an agricultural
display as any county in Ga. She
can make a better dispiay of cattle,
hogs, poultry. The live stock de
partment of a fair can and should be
made the most important of all the
departments. It is so in all the big
fairs of the Northwest., The writer
has seen there two-thousand-four
hundred hogs under one roof valuad
at a quarter million dollars. He has
seen shows of horses worth the price
of a thousand mile trip to see.
These fairs were not built in a day
or year, but dezens of years of hard
work and cooperation.
It is to be hoped that the Cobb
County Fair Association will not
make the mistake made by so many
southern fairs of offering practically
all the money on agriculture, but
rather that they will profit by these
mistakes, It ought not to take a very
brainy man to know that when an
association offers $5.00 for the best
bushel of wheat that cost 50 cents to
produce and is worth say $2.00 after
the show without any risk attached,
as against $5.00 on best Jersey cow,
that cost a hundred dollars ta pro
duce. is worth $200.00 after the
show with a bigvrisk, make a big
mistake. This policy will never
build up a big live stock show iu
Cobb Co. Cobb can make one her- |
gelf if needs be without any outsida‘
help and our breeders would likely
do so even if no money was offered, |
but offer prizes on live stock as per
value of exhibit, same as other things
open it to the world and invite the
breeders. 1 venture the assertion
that they will come if this is done.
We need them. No country ever
broadened as it should behind closed
doors. No exhibition of this char
acter ever was or ever will be a suc—fi
cess if closed to a special class and no
individual ever did amount to a two
cent piece unless he came into con
tact with the balance of the world.
Open Cobb’s fair to the world.
Invite the breeders of cattle, horses,
"hogs, and poultry to show with us.
Invite the people from elsewhere.
This will mean a bigger and bett>r
show each year. It means growth
and expansion. It means progress
and prosperity for the Assoclation of
the County. As to what will be the
results of any other poliey I can do
no better than cite any ‘‘doubting
Thomas'’ to past Cobb County Fairs.
They are only examples of those of
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER
other sections, the same the world)
over, |
In the past I have visited uhows!
and fairs at Atlanta, Macon, Calhoun, |
Dalton, Columbus and Augusta, Ga.,!
Chattanooga and Nashville, Tenn., |
Birmingham, Montgomery and Troy,g
Ala., Greenville, and Chaleston, 8. C., |
Jamestown, Va., Sedalia, Mo., Des
Moines, lowa, besides many other
smaller ones. I have been at thes«o.;
fairs when it is said a Thundred
thousand people passed in at the |
gates in a single day, and I Kknow |
that the open door policy and live
stock is a “‘pat hand” that will win.
Let them come from any where, 1i
they can heat Cobb Co. she will got |
better stuff next time. If the other!
fellow takes the trouble to bring in |
better stuff than we have he ought |
to be paid for bringing it. It is,
worth the price to our people. If the !
Association puts up enough moneyfi
to even cover the exp2nses of the
exhibitors they will make a show all |
right. Most people know the value |
of advertising, or ought to know it, |
and from this point of view an ex-i
hibitor, no matter whether his hobby |
is live stock or pedigreed seeds, can-i
not afford to overlook the opportuni- |
ty of advertising. There is no wayé
of telling where the next husinessz‘
will come from, and an exhibitor ati
the 1914 Cobb Co. Fair might find ai
customer in a visitor from Toronto,
Ont. It is not at all unreasonable |
and the breeders will not miss the‘
opportunity if presented to them iug
the proper way. A personal experi-f
ence will serve to illustrate the point |
In 1910 I bought three pigs on tu- ‘
Fair grounds at Des Moines, Towa
from an Indiana breeder paying a'
long price for them. Doubtless it
might have seemed absurd to some
if tha Ind. breeder had even hinted
that an exhibit at far away Des
Moines might bring him business
from down in Ga. exactly in the op
posite direction, and nearly a thou
sand miles away, but it did. The
same might be true in Cobb co. Any
way we will see,
If the business men some of whose
time is worth ten of us, see enougi
if that Ind. breeder had even hinted
and give a part of their time to it,‘
}surely we can do no less than boost.
. We have got to do something. We
can’'t stay on the fence and stagnate.
l We must get on one side or th: other,
’At present I am on the side of the
‘Fair Association. I hope every maun
in Cobb Cd. will back it. Anyway
‘don't sleep. If you can be a booster
for hea\'(jtn's sake kick. Be a ‘“live
‘ wire.”’
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