The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-12
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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 g-a- aH
| The Committee charged with The duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem NO
cessary 10 aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following go. ......
! IL at,r GENERAL REGULATIONS. r., .....
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings viii be |
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirable 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 Com
mttee will be there ready TO receive them.g 30 Il
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the sae-keepDg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
etficers 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 10 recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
| Association :. b. 8's HHs c.t... ".Us. "-I 'a
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
iton, shall have first been enieredin the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled wth the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-Siving
to the owner corresponding Garland 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 for
exhibition--the 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 ofcultvation. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &C. IL
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 a premium will not be awarded to any arti-
= Gle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
- 5lh The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
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.
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress OF being
- adopted The leading products of their countless
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 III the published trans
= actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable 10 make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricutural and NJ ,hufac turers Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
tharn TprC n tDIn fore far
q a premium.
< It'll. Premiums. st is impossible to name in no.
tice like this ALL the various articles 10 which pre-
mums 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 ght be construed by
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
7 OBSERVE hat 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 then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited TO come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is that on all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics Agricultural I'M
pements, and valuable improvements or inventions
4 in any of the departments, premium OF cup
= worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cIes q cup worth 4 5 will be given on the third best
q =. SO; on the fourth an honor And on all arti
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth ) will be given on the second
best 9. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
, I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
, premiums from one 10 three dollars--these, how
ever ARE general regulations, and in particular case
q or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned part-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, &c. They
are lly invited In 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-.
f sence and contributions of many OF our fellow
citizens Of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. We hope they will unite with us in nal king
this institution indeed, what tits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural 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-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed |
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists OF the
ltcles 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 10 take notice that articles for exhibition
may be recsiyed 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 conf
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
Il cles, and thereby haze ample time to make their
4 reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday,
y Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday TO gen
eral re-dsyery of articles The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time,
1lth. Any alterations Of, or editions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta carly
= Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. 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
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon TO
, Griffin. Maristta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
!, to give visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while ip
:, attendance upon the Fair