The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-11
SOUTHERN CEN RAJ

day Of August next, which is the day OF the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management oil the approaching
Fair have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings Wlli DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana con-
tinue open until Friday evening. II Is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons hav ng articles LOT exhipi-
ton, shall be on the ground as cary as frday or
| Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in o eases become responsible for the saie-keepng
s, articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
| Ulcers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close oil The FAIR, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
rive them on; ortunty 10 recover their goods, and
to preyent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the Adjournment OF the
ASSOC aton
3d. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, WIN. EzZard, and James NJ. Calhoun, arc
appointcd committee whose duty it shall be to see
hat all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition shall have first been enteredln The Secretary
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and reside nce-and price, If for sale-giving
to the owner a corresponding Garland then CLASH
fled and arranged by departments and in such order
as to facilitate the labors Of the several committees
on premiums anu diSO W 5uSH Pohto anu
doorkeepers and clerks, shall be necessary for
the protection Of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need IN the arrangement
and labelling of articles.
4th There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion-'he statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcutivation Ii an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode oil raising, &c II
Needle work or Painting, or any work oil Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or The amount Of
labor; the age, if by children or very old persons
tie value uses, sc. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,
visitors, patrons and members all will take notice,
that premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egible hand, and in a style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined TO make out. upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, OF the I'M
prov ements in farming tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of bling
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes Of pre- paraton. time Of planting and mod
OF cultivation. The means and measures Of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the servcFal county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out IN the published trans
actions Of the Society.
9Th 1t is desirable TO make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and NJ. LufacturersEX change
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
US choice seeds, machines, stock, &c.--to carry
them there for SAFE and not alone for exhibition Tor
premium.
7th. Premiums.-H is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles TO which pre-
NUNS will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
still be many articles Of merit offered which would
not be embraced in il, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement OF pre-
miums for particular articles might be Istrued by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounccd,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give TIE action Of
the Association the very widest scope, embracing
svery thing that is ingenious or useful III business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited 10 come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
il: that on all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
Elements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any Of the dt partments, a premium OF a cup
worth 4 I'D will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth s will be given on the third best
50 so ; on the fourth an honor. And on all att
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 5 $ will be given; on the second
best 4 . 50 on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and nisce laneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars-these, how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees Will he
permitted indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
A hall will he nrenore1 and assigned IL
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, need e-work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend Their assistance
in many del artments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary TO proper management.
9th. The facilities of getting 10 this central
point induce us to invite, and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and F H.
rida. We hore they will urite with US in making
this institution indeed what 1t is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon a consultation with
such members he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists OF the
articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection OF THIS
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will h. re repeat, and enJoln
upon all to take that articles for exhibition
urday the 9th and 10th of August, so that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
have their lists OF articles, aud the several com
mittees proceed at to the examination of artl
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
era re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinulng the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
l2h. The annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
18th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to give visitors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dations of the good Hotels at those places while III
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business of
the far.
18TH The Secretary is directed TO publish