The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-23
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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
Vs1E 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
cessaTy 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors On Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons hav ne articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepipg
articles which may be placed in the hands of its
Licers 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 OPP ortunty to recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any .ds or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
ition, shall have first been en,eredin the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled W tn the owners
name and residence-and price, for saie-givhg
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the labors 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.
4lh There will positively be required in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibition-!he 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 ofcultivaton. II 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 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 " i'll not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in cgible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5lh. The delegations Of the scrveral county Soco-
ties are requested and enoned to make out, upon
consu lation, a report Of the present condition OF
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tilIage, 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 Of planting and m, d.
Of cultivation. The means and measures of pre- SER
wing and increase & the fertility Of lands. Ac, ura t,
Agricultural memoirs firm the sGrveral count,
societies would make up an amount of VALUABLE
information 10 be sen out IN the published trans
actions f the Society.
E,h II = l..uir tln IT,,
Southern gricultui al and NJ. acturers change
We request individuals who have surplus OF
choice articles, who maxi tn m for sale -suci
as choice Sc DIS, machines stock, &c--to carr,
them there for g, and alone for exhibition 70
| a premium.
7th. Premiums.-It is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles which pre-
NUNS will be granted. However comprehenslv.
we might make any enumerated list there woult
still be many articles of merit offered which would
not be- embraced in It, and yet richly deservin,
premiums, lest the elore the annouh cement Of pre-
miums for particular articles mig be CO strued b,
somcinto exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally t
observe, hat it Is in ended to give tie action o
the Association the very widest scope, embracing
every thing Tat is ingenious useful business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The onl,
regulation further necessary on this point perha 81
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or invention
in any of the de partmcnls, premium of q cuI
worth S 10 will be given on the second best arti
Giles cup orth S will be given on the third bes
81 So on the fourth on honor. And on all arti
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the secont
best 2. SO on the third an honor; on he fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misc, llaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three dullars-thesc. how
ever ARE general regulations, and in particular cas
or cases of peculiar merit the committee will b,
permitted, Indeed are requested, TO vary the rule
9th. hall will be prepared and assigned pari
J cularly to the Ladies for tier garden products
, fruits, flowers paintings, necdlc-work, &c. The.
; are cordially invited to attend Their assistance
in many DEF artments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities of getting to this ccntra
point induce us to invite, and to expect the pre-
scncc 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 a consultation with
such members as he can 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 classcd and arranged in their respective
departments. In order TO the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will hire repeat, and enjon
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. he devoted TO sales-Frday to zen.
eral re-deivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tnuing 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,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Gel. 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
atta nbopc ia H.;