The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-25
SOUTHERN CENTRAL
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/ soUTHERN CENTRAL
1 AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
! / raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
duringthe week embracing Wednesday, the l9th
day Of August next, which is the day OF the filth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS. III,
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and CON
tnue open until Friday L is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
lion 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.
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases become responsible for the safe-keeppg
oil articles which may be placed IN the hands 81 MS
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the samc,) until the close of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give them opportunity to recover their goods, and
10 prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment Of the
Association. sN# f $3.50 @ {.
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 for exhi-
iton shall have first been enieredin the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, for salc-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi
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, as shall be necessary for
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and labelling Of articles. .trn ..s a. a5s. al.
| aly ha in oil
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--lhe statement to be delivered 10 the
Secretary. For instance, II 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 ofcutiyation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &c II
Needle work or Painting, or any work OF Art, the
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 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 serveral county socie-
ties are requested and enjoned 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 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. .., ~.g
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and MsnufacturersEx 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 fol
, premium " 49,
It'll. Premiums. is impossible 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 therefore the announcement OF pre-
miums for partculaS 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 or useful in business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
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-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
80. so on the fourth an honor. And on all art.
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 4 5 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 to 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.
sth hall will be prepared and assigned part-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needIe-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 ofCarolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. 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 consultation with
such members he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
| pdrtments, 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 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 he received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urday the 9th and l0th 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 at once to the examination of art-
etes, and thereby have ample time TO make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
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 annual Grafton will be made
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, of Athens, Georgia.