The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-14
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AGRICUITURAL ASSOCIATION


| AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TIME Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 14th
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 ne
cessary 10 proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will 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
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 sae-keepng
ol 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 10 recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
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
tion, shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giying
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the labors 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.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibition-he statement to be delivered TO the
4 Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker liz Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree stock age, mode of raising, &C. If
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 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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legibe hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations Of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition OF
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
-
ring, which have been or are in progress Of being
adopted. The leading products Of their countless
the modes of 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 servera 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
SouthernAg agricultural and NJ nufacturers Exchange
tnII piA. Ia xthN hax,n
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
3 a premium.
( 7th. Premiums. is impossible to name in no.
tice like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
3 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 construed by
someinto an exclusion of all 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, all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
= pemens, and valuable improvements or inventions
: in any of the departments, premium of cup
> worth 10 will be given on the second best arti.
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
2 SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
T cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. SO; on the third an honor; the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
, premiums from one 10 three dollars-these, how
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 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
n cessary to proper management
9Th. The facilities of getting TO this central
point induce us to invite, and to expect the pre-.
t sence and contributions Of many OF our fellow
citizens of Carolina Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
Y rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what it is in name Southern
j Central Agric utural Association.
:. 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he 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
i articles classed and arranged in their respective
8 departments. In order to the perfection of thus
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
8 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 at 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-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
e foregoing rules, will be published at Atante early
: Monday morning Of the Fair week
18th. The annua! grafton will be made on
Wednesday. the day of the Anniv ersary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
bV Col John Biuns oP Athens Genro;,