The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-27
SOUTHERN CENTRAL
ASSOCIATION,


AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. T.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia ~ gas'
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO aproper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following - ..
..n.asl GESERAL REGULATIoNs. ..,..... =. v
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening IL is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
| ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee will be there ready TO receive them.
3D. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases become responsible for the safe-keepng
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands of its
q Ulcers and committees, Qhe owner taking check
for the same) until the close OF the Fair, which
| will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give them OPP ortunty TO recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods OF
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Association.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor eXhi-
tion, shall have first been entercdn The Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged bydepartments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abors Of the several committees
on premiums and also TO employ such police and
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary for
the projection 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 Tor
exhibition---,he statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, IL a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost time OF invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. Ii horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultiyation. Ii an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising, sc. 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, &C. 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 a 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.
5th The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
lies are requested and enjoined TO make OUT upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the i'm
provements 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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and ": hufacturers 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.
It'll. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tce 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally TO
observe, that it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very widest scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful in business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
s that on all articles Of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any Of the departments, premium OF q cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
5 = so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 8 g. SO on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor On miner and misce llaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars-these, how
| nd in ri
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| Sth A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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 10 this central
point induce us TO invite, and to expect the pre-
sencc and contributions Of many of our fellow
citizens q Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and To-
rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it's in name Southern
Central Agric uural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdTtmcnts, and to these committees appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
alticles casscd and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and 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 several COM
mitees proceed at once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday,.
Thursday vii! bedevoted to sales-Friday to gen
| Al !.
tinuing the whole time.
18th. 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 DO made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
| l3th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
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