The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-26


UTHERN CENTRAL
| AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
| rINHE Fifth Annual Fair Of tho Southern Cent,
| | raj Agricultural Association will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the Nth
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with Tie duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 aproper management OF the approaching
Fair have adopted the following
40 ts GENERAL REGULATIONS. g
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
linue open until Friday evenings 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons hav ng articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as cary as Friday
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittec will be there ready 10 receive them.
| %. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the saie-keepng
,, articles which may be placed in the hands of its
Ulcers aud committees, (tlie owner taking check
for the samc,) until the close Of The Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give them OPP: ortunty to recover their goods, aud
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association. c ,ait.ta9e pat
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis Wm. Ezzard, aud James nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
tion sha have first been enieredln the Secretary's
name and residelice--and price, iffor sale--givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by department 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 protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
aud labelling of articles.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhiblioD--'he statement to he 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. IL horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land aud soil, manure and
time of planting mode OF cultvation. II an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode oil 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 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 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. "a 5tfi 1osea, lu nsur' M
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
Ties are requested and eDjoined to make out, upon
u
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
! provements in farming, tllage, 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 ofpanting 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. ~ .ll
9th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and N, nufacurersE Exchange
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 SALE and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th Premiums is impossible to name ina no
tce like this ALL the various articles to which pre-
mi,ims 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 H. aud yet richly deserving
premiums lest lhcI eforc the announcement Of pre-
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
someinto ali exclusion Of all articles unannounced,
The Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended TO give tie 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, on all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium OF cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best artt-
Giles cup worth SIS will be given, on the third best
81. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles 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,
I'd honor. On miner and misc, llaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three doars-hese, 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 be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, need!ework DC. They
are cordially invited TO attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management a.ngl
| 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 10
rda. We hope they Will unite with us In making
this institution indeed ,whstitis in name, Southern
Central Agric utural 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 classed 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 enJoln
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 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. ft
| 1lth. 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,
fby Col. John Billups, of Athens Georgia.