The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-03
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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
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 ''" Il
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribipg such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
ag, GENERAL REGuLATIoNs.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t Is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhlbl
ton, shall be on the ground as carry as Friuay OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and WILL
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeplng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF Its
cficers 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. 5..-.t. a,
3D. 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
ion shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, flor sale-glvhg
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments 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, shall be necessary Tor
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. a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhbuion-the statement to be 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, mode ofcutivaion. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &c Ii
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 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 mt at once Tor the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socle-
ties are requested and enjoined 10 make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition OF
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
movements 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 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
SouthernA agricultural and 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
them there for sale and not alone for exhibition fol
. a premium.
7th. Premiums sit is impossible to name in no
tice like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
2 miums will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there Woutd
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 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
plementS, ana VALUABLE iupIONcHlcHtsoT
in any Of the departments, premium OF cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth will be given on the third best
2. 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 9. SO on the third honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dolars-thesc, how
ever are general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-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-
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it in NAME Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members 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
articles 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
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 :aay
have their lists OF articles, and the several conf
mtees proceed at once to the examination of art-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frlday to gen.
eral re-delivery 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.
10Th The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bups, 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
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to give visitors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dations of the good Hotels at those places while in