The southern press., 1850-11-02
SOUTHERN GENITAL

during the week embracing wednesday, Inc I'm
day Of August next, which is the day OF the filth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The COMMITTEES charged, with the duty OF pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following s .saaen
ailt GENERAL REGULATIONS, ga ag e. i
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings Will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday II Is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor exhlbl-
lion, shall be on the ground as early as rday or
Saturday the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready TO receive them
3D. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all eases become responsible for the safekeeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF lis
ficers and committees, (tbe owner taking a check
for the same,) until the close OF the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time to
give them opJ orunty 10 recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
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 exh-
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or regisiry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giying
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
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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. ...
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion--lhe statement to be delivered to the
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 If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode of fcultyation. If 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 oil
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 all will take notice,
that premium will not be awarded TO any arli-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press. -
5,h The delegations of the servera county Socie-
Ties are requested and enjoined 10 make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition oil
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 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. . >.... s.. 3. a.
9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
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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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in a no
tce 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 mightbe construed by
someinto an exclusion oil all articles unannounced,
SI 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
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 on 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 arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
4 T. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti,
cles of the highest merit n the remaining depart
ments a cup worth s. will be given; on the second
best 2. SO; on the third an honorj on The fourth,
ID 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 bepIepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
Hkax
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 of Carolina, 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 can call 10 his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrments, 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 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
mlttees proceed at once to the examination of artl
cles, 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.
1lth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atantn early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
10Th. The annua! Grafton will be made
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 accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
14th The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
| and others engaged III the laborous business of