The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-08
soUTHERN C INITIAL
sAnRICITJTURA SSnrI ATION

SOUTHERN ENTRAL3
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
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
cribipg such general rules as they may deem ne
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, aud con-
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exbib-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeppg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
tffcers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give them opportunity TO recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment oil the
| Association. ..''sF 'lr.E
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 Tor exhi
ition shall have first been eneredn the Secretary S
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
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 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-the statement TO be delivered to the
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 IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultiyation. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. II
Needle work or Painting, or any work Of Art, Inc
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount OF
labor the age, il 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 O premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the servera county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition oil
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 med
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 ufacturersEx Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, OF 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 Premums.-I is impossible to name in no
tice like this ALL the various articles 10 which pre-
miums will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumeI ated 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 OF all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
lobserve, that 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 them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
s,
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium OF a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best art-
ces cup worth IS will be given, on the third best
So so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cIes of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor on the fourth,
| ID honor On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars--these, how
ever, ARE general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned par-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, nc. 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-
sence 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 what il is in name, Southern
Central Agric utural 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-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists oil 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 here repeat, and enjoin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urduy the 9Th and 10th of August, so that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the commit Of reception may
have their lists Of articles, aHd he several COM
mittees proceed at the nination of arti-
cles, and thereby ha>r ample time to make their
reports to the annu,d meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be dsvot5l to ~,'"s-Frday to gen
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