The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-04
SOUTHERN CENTRAL
A GuIrUTU TIJRAL ASSOCIATION.

SO u L II Il II N Y N Il MA IL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
THE 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
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings Will De
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening II IS therefore ae
srable that all persons having articles ior exhiDi-
ton. shall be on the ground 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 Tor The
articles which may be placed IN the nands OF It's
olicers 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 OPT. ortunty 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 to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor eXhi-
ion shall have first been eneredin the Secretary's
book or registry-then labelled 9TH the owners
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, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent Tor
| cXhbtion-the statement to be delivered 10 the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, 4 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 ofcultiyation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock age, mode OF raising, &C. IL
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 peraons
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 q premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style nj at once Tor the
press.
5th The delegations of the several county Socie-
Ties are requested and enjoned to make out, upon
consultation, q 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 ofpre paraton. 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 to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and NJ MISUNDERSTANDING
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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
| It'll. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in a no.
tice like this ALL the various articles TO 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 construed by
someinto an exclusion of all 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
svery thing tlat 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 on all articles of the highest merit in the
department
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium Of a cup
worth 4 10 will be given the second best arti-
cIes cup worth IS will be given, on the third best
=. 50 on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
mens a cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best >. 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 arc general regulations, and in particular case
or cases Of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed arc requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly TO the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needlework &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many del apartments 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 It's in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural 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 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
lheSe VIII ntTe repeat, anu e'Joih
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, 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
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frdqy 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.
18th. The annua! Grafton will he made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bups, 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 of the good Hotels at those places while in