The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-26
soUTHERN CEN RAJ
. 10TH TIIRAI, ARSOCIA

SOUTH ERIN GEN TRAIL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
TIME Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
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
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following s"
GENERAL REGULATIONS. sHaal
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be |
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirabie 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.
Cd The Association has an ample fund, and will, |
in all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF lis
cficers and committees, Cthe 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.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be 10 see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi.
iton, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--giving
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, as shall be necessary for
the projection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need In the arrangement
and labelling OF articles.
Attn There will positively be required, in all
| cases. a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhbiton--,he statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, II Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, ana
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and SOIL manure and
time of planting, mode ofcutiyaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &c III
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 Of the Society,
visitors patrons and members, oil will take notice,
that a 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 seryeral county Socie-
ties are requested and EN- joined 10 make out, upon
consultation a report of the present condition oil
provements in farming, tage, 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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of'the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable 10 make the Fair Central
SouthernAgrcultura and NJ :Iufacturers 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 for
| a premium.
7th. Premiums.-It is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL the various articles 10 which pre-
mums 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, 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
! regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is 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 a cup
worth ! 10 will be given on the second best arti
cles cup worth 5 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 g SO on the third an 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
9th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parli-
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 10 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 Flo
rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them 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
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urday the 9th and 10th of August, 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
mtees proceed at once to the examination Of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes-Frday to gen |
eral re-delivery Of articles The exhibition con-
unuing the whole time.
llth. Amy alterations of, or additions to-, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
by Col. John BilIups, Of Athens, Georgia.
l3th. 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 accomnlo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
do III To.