The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-20

| i 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 be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
uon, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mlttee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd, The Association has ample fund, and will
IN all cases. become responsible for the sae-keepDg
oil articles which may be placed in the hands of it's
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor 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
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
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
iton, shaIlhave first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, for sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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 protection 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, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibition---lhe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If 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 ofcultivation. If an Animal
the pedigree or 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 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 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 serveral county Soce-
ties requested and enjoined to make out, upon
report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
in farming, tilage, 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
SouthernAgricutura and M;nufacturersExc hange
We request individuals who have a 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
premium.
7th. Premiums 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 OF all 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, embI acing
every thing that 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 of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
pements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
3 so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments a cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles
premiums from one TO three dol.ars-these. how
ever are general regulations, and in particular case
rro of -,rltn IL. IT,
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
oularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work &c. They
are cordially limited to attend. Their assistance
In many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 20 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 is in name Southern
Central Agrc 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-
pdrtmenis, 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
'i1se reguiauonsi VIII here repeat, and enloin
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, 30 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
nttees 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
llth. Amy alterations Of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
iit. The annual Grafton will be made on
"Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bilups, of Athens, Georgia
l3th. 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