From Days Gone By Jan 21, 1922

January 21, 1922.
    The following was printed in late 1921 in the Wrightsville Headlight as farming was Georgia's biggest industry and the county fairs were the biggest and most important events of the time. It's entitled "The Fair" by D. G. Bickers.
"From Georgia farms and Georgia fields are Georgia products fine,
And gems and precious metals there from many a Georgia mine.
The Georgia woods have beat their share of treasure for the show
And Georgia marble smooth and white will soon be all the go.
There's Georgia melons, Georgia cane, and Georgia cotton, too,
And Georgia oats and wheat and corn like what the west can do,
There's Georgia bread from Georgia mills and Georgia wool for clothes.
There's Georgia shoes and Georgia hats and overalls and hose.
There's Georgia turnips turning and punkins never punk,
And Georgia 'taters syrupy like candy by the chunk.
There's Georgia pinders, peanuts--also ground peas, goobers, too,
And Georgia syrup, "ribbon cane" -- and Georgia "mountain dew",
There's Georgia cakes and Georgia cream and Georgia peaches sweet.
And Georgia rice and Georgia hams and Georgia middling meat.
There's Georgia cabbage, collards, and some other things as green,
And luscious Georgia fruits of all sorts - the like was never seen.
There's Georgia horses, mules and colts, and Georgia hogs galore,
And Georgia cows and calves and bulls, and then a plenty more,
Of other Georgia livestock from the pasture and the stall----
The finest that was ever seen in summer, spring or fall.
From out the Georgia mountains, Georgia hills and Georgia vales,
From off the  plains and fields, from out the Georgia dales,
The products of this Georgia soil would open wide the eyes
Of Easterner or Westerner and fill him with surprise.
And many a Georgia fellow there will chew his Georgia quid
And reach into his Georgia jeans where Georgia gold is hid,
Enjoy in true old Georgia style the fair in all its parts
And show in turn the Georgianess of "sho-nuff" Georgia hearts."

  Another entitled "The Dairy Cow" by Walt Mason.
"The dairy cow's a thing of charm; she lifts the morgage from the farm, and makes the farmer's life more sweet and sets him down in easy street. Where'er the dairy cow is queen, a country prosperous is seen, and dairymen, in joyful ranks, are packing bullion to the banks. Why plug along the same old way, producing nutmegs, prunes, hay, and putting up a bankrupt wail if one year's crop should chance to fail? There a better method now---the method of the dairy cow; this critter always earns her keep, and piles up riches while you sleep. So let us boost the Holstein cow, which beats the old breechloading plow; the Guernsey and the Jersey, too, as smooth as any cow in view. Let's talk up dairies, milk and cream, the safest money-making scheme."