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tunity to see practically all of the Hereford and 

 Shorthorn show herds in the middle west as well as 

 every variety of sheep, hogs and poultry. They also 

 had ample time to compare the exhibits with what 

 they had been purchasing and producing. 



This is the true mission of the fair. It teaches by 

 example. The average man who stands by the show 

 ring and sees the ribbons awarded or examines the 

 stock in the buildings does not as a rule compare 

 them with those they have defeated but with what he 

 or his neighbors have at home. The comparison 

 creates a disposition to improve. This feeling of un- 

 rest spread over Georgia and adjoining states for 

 several years. The stockman favored by nature took 

 up swine breeding to such an extent that Georgia 

 rivaled Iowa in the production of pork and its by- 

 products, while the cattlemen came into their own in 

 the production of beef. This change can be traced to 

 the fairs. Striplin continued at the wheel of the 

 Atlanta fair until he died in 1926. 



CHESTNUT PETER 



In 1907 when Trampfast won the two-year-old 

 division of the Kentucky Futurity and reduced the 

 race record for foals of that age to 2:1214, the 

 chestnut filly Dorothy Axworthy was only beaten a 

 head. It was the last appearance of the pair. Tramp- 

 fast was retired to the stud in Illinois while Dorothy 

 Axworthy passed into the brood mare ranks with a 

 record of 2:2114. 



