The southern press., 1850-11-01
SOUTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOClATION.


/ 50 UTHERN CENTRAL
/ AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
I1NHE Fifth Annual Fair Of tho Southern Cent
| raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day OF August next, which is the day OF tho fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with The duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO aproper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
I opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. It's therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor oxhibi-
tion shall be on tho ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready TO receive them.
| s!i. The Association has an ample fund, and will
in all cases become responsible for the safekceping
o articles which may be placed in the hands Of It's
Chicers and committees, the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, III ample time to
give them opportunity to recover their goods, and
1 to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment Of the
! Association. .-N. H..... @ .......tt
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 for exhi
ition, shalhav first been enieredin the Secretarys
book or registry then labelled W tn the owners
name and residence--and price, ffor salc--giving
TO the owner corresponding card--and then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in suclr 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 for
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need In the arrangement
and labelling of articles.
4lh. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
Il exhibtion-,he statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of finyenon, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultvation. II 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, if 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 ofthe Society,
visitors patrons and members all will take notice.
that a premium will not be awarded 10 any art-
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. . 49,.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
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 ofpreparation. time OF planting aud mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures Of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
j 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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
c,,t Ex,o
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 for
a premium . ,
i 7th Premiums 1t 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 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 might be consruedby
somcinto an exclusion OF TALL articles unannounccd,
the Committee requests the people generally TO
observe, that 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
j.. regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
H. that 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 cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best art-
Cles cup worth will be given on the third best
= SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
f clss of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth S will be given on the second
best g 50 on the third an honor; the fourth,
e I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
n premiums from one TO three doars-these, how
ever are general regulations and in particular
e or of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted indeed requested, to vary the rule.
sth. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
+, fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, DC. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
e in many departments Of the fair is absolutely he
cessary to proper Management.
9th. The facilities of getting TO 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 making
this institution indeed what it is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association. -'... u.. ...
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 appointed
The committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles cassed 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 enjon
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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on "Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes-Friday 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. '~
l2th. The annual Grafton viii 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
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to give visitors the opportunity of the accomn,o
datons of the good Hotels ut those places while in