The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-23
EsoUTHERN CENTRAL -a
ASSOCIATION,

L raj AGRICULTURAL h5SOCldlIoH,
Turing the week embracing Wednesday, the ltth
lay of August next, which is the day OF the filth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
,ribing such general rules as they may deem ne
,essary to proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENEaAL REGULATIONS.
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t IS therefore Ge'
sirabe that all persons having articles lor eXhiOl-
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. -,
ID. The Association has an ample fund, and VIII,
in all cases. become responsible for the sale-keePhg
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close oil the falr, Which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time 10
give them opportunity TO recover their goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving oil 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 arc
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for eXhi-
ition lhave first been enteredn the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, for sale-glvlllg
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and III 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 Tor
the projection of the grounds and buildings, aud
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 ior
exhibition-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
&c nd 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 ofplanting, mode ofcutivaton. If an ANNA,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &C. Ii
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 very old persons
tie value uses sc. 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 a premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the scrveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enoined to make out, upon
| consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements in farming, lage, 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 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 a Central
SouthernAgricultura and M.nufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
choice seeds, machines, stock, &c----to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
It'll. Premiums. Sit is impossible to name in 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 ofall articles unannounced,
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 or useful in business
art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is, that all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
pements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 4 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth will be given the third best
50. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
ces of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth ! 5 will be given on the second
best g SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars--these, how
general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
A hall ,,,,lI ha rnI ,nIa mod narii-
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 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what il is in name a Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon 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 cassed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order I'd 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
mttees 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-Frday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
for rn,lna he, II a.
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniv crsary 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-
da;ions 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 in the laborious business Of