The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-24
SOUTHERN CEN RAJ
RAL ASSOCIATION.

Il
/ raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing "Wednesday, tho l4th
day Of August next, which is the day OF the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia .gE
i The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
! GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST Tho Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening Is therefore de-
srable 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
mttee viii be there ready to receive them.
ID. The Association has an ample fund, and VIII,
in all cases become responsible for the safekeeping
o articles which may DO placed in the hands of us
.fficers 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 to recover their goods. and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Association. 49, --
Sd. 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 exh-
ition shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdeGce-1nd price, II for sale--givlng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
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.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, q minute and accurate written statement
Illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exbibtion--ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, a 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 fcultivation 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 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 arti-
Gle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legiblc hand, and in style fit at once for the
press. 20
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined 10 make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition OF
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
proyements 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 fplanting aud mod.
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the sorveral 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
uthernAgricultural and Nj uufactu rers Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles OF who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock &c.-to carry
them there for SALE and not alone for exhibition for
q a premium.
5 7th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in no.
tice like this all, the various articles TO which pre-
5 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-
mums for particular articles mig be construed by
somcnto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
Observe hat it is intended 10 give the action Of
= the Association the very widest scope, embracing
svery thing that is ingenious or 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
il. that, all articles of the highest merit in the
- department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
=. Elements, and valuable improvements or inventions
= in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on tho second best art.
d
= 50; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
+ cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments a cup worth IS will be given on the second
best g. 50 on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from 10 three dollars-these, how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested 10 vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parIi-
cuarly to the Ladies for their garden products
Tha,
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 fello"
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.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid, shallappoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists OF the
a! ticles 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
mittees proceed at 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-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinung the whole time.
It'll 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 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 accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in