The southern press., 1850-09-06
- SOUTHERN CEN RAJ
ASSOCIATION.

s.--ea. SOUTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL,A 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
cribing such general rules as they may deem me-
cessary to aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
F.,. 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 having articles for exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday,nthe 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them. ...
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepng
articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
officers 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 of the
Association. =
3d. 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-
iton, shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classl-
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 Tor
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and ellng of articles.
9TH. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent Tor
exhibition-the statement TO he delivered 10 the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, statement
of is powers and uses cost, time OF invention, ana
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, mole ofcultivation II an Animal,
the pedigree stock, aoe, mode oi raising, &c. IL
Needle-work or Painting, or any work OF Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount OF
labor; the age, f 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 q premium will not be awarded 10 any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements made out
in Iegble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
| ties are requested and cnjoned to make out, upon
consultation, report Of the present condition ol
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provcments 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 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 sen: Out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
| 9Th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernA Agricultural and N, ,nufacturers 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 saie and not alone for exhibition for
| premium.
7th. Premiums-It isimpossible to name in no
ce 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 there foe the announcement OF pre-.
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
OBSERVE t hat it is intended to give the action OF
the Association the very widest scope, embracing
svery thing that is ingenious or 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
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 arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
So 50; on the fourth an honor. And on all art
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 8 9. SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dolars-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 pari-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needte-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-
sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and To-
rda. We hope they will unite with US in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
| Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
| pdriments, 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 perlecuon OF ulis
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
mttees proceed ut 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-Frday to gen
eral re-deivery 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 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
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, TO