The southern press., 1850-09-03
souTHERN CEN T RAJ.
RISJJJ,TJRA AT, AaSnrlAT TION.

AaRIcULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the ith
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 Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirable that all persons hay ng articles for exhibit
tion shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
2d. The Association has an ample fund.- and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the saiekeeping
. articles which may be placed in the hands OF Its
{ Ulcers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor the same,) until the close OF the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give them or, ,,orlunty to,recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the ad journment Of the
! Association.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis VIM. EZzard, and James NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or regstry-then labelled W tn the owners
name anI residence-and price, iffor sale-gving
to the owner a corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged by 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.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
axyhi tha tn he lpIi n a
Secretary. For instance, il 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 ofcutIvaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &c Ii
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 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 style fit at once for the
press.
5lh The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enloned to make out. upon
consultation, a report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm.
prcvements in farming, tillage, 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 serveral 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 M.nufacturersExc xchange
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. 1t is impossible to name in no.
ce like this all, the various articles 10 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 announcement OF pre-
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
somcnto an exclusion ofall 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
. is that on all articles OF the highest merit in the
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= plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
= in any of the departments, premium oil cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth rs will be given, on the third best
= so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
menls cup worth ) 5 will be given on the second
best .. 50 on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dullars-these, how
ever ARE general regulations, and in particular case
or Of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
Sth. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cuarly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, need!e-work, &c They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management.
9th. The facilities Of getting to this central
point induce us TO invite, and to expect The pre-
sencc and contributions of many Of our fellow
citizens Of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo.
rida. We hope they will unite with us IN making
this institution indeed wh?. il is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrlments, 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
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
: may be received and arranged on Friday snd Sat
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, and the seN eral com
mtees proceed at once to the examination Of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral redelivery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing 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 annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
co aSnp an@ e Asns
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
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