The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-10
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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 4
| TINE Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
L raj Agricultural Association, will bcheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 18th
day of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
| The Committee charged with the duty of pres
eribing such general rules as they may deem nc
cessary to proper management of the approaching
FAIR, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and
tlnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
slrabie that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when q Com
mittce will be there ready to receive them.
| 2d. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safe-kcepng
oi articles which may be placed in the hands of its
| Ulcers and committees, Ohe owner taking check
Tor the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give them opportunity 10 recover their goods and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ion, shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, ffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arrangedby departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the labors Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers and clerks, as 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.
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibtion-,he statement to he delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, II Machine, a 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. If Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &C. If
Needle-work or Painting, or any work Of 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 ill take notice,
that premium will not be awarded to any arti-
cle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Ieglblc hand, and IN style tit at once Tor the
press.
5lh The delegations Of the several county Socic-
Ties arc requested and en- joined to make cut, upon
consultation report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, illage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress Of being
adopted. The leading products of their countless
the modes Of preparation. 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 scrvcral county
societies would make up an amount Of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t Is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgrcultura and Manufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th. Premiums.-It is impossible to name in a no.
tice like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
miums 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the annouDcemen Of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very widest scope, embracing
svery thing that is ingenious useful in business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
H. that, on all articles of the highest merit in the
:, plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, a premium OF cup
worth i 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth will be given on the third best
e = So; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
f cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best g 50 on the third an honor; on The fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars-these, how
cverare general regulations, and in particular case
e or of peculiar merit the committees will be
: permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
Sth. hnIl will be prepared and assigned parti-
s cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
, fruits, flowers paintings, needle work, &c. They
e are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
e in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
I cessary to proper management
9th. The facilities Of getting TO this central
point induce us to invite, and to expect the pre-
| scncc and contributions of many of our follow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, whattis in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon 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 appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
aiticles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
nrday 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, and the several COM
mIttces proceed at once to the examination of art-
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday,
Thursday will be devoted to saes-Friday gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tnung 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.
18th The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniv ersary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bllups, Of Athens, Georgia.
18Th The Committee have the prospect of
maHIng arrangements with the Macon, State and
J Georgia Railroads. to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon 10
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
, to give visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dntOns of the Good Hotels 81 those places while