The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-13
THERN GEN RAJ
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
| crlblng such general rules they may deem ne
oessary TO aproper management of the approaching
Far, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and CON
tnue open until Friday evening. Ii is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhibit
tion, 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.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund and will
IN all cases. become responsible for the saie-keepDg
oil articles which may be placed IN the hands OF ITS
oihcers 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 opportunity TO recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM Ezzard and James M. Calhoun,
appointed committee whose duty IT shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exhl-
ition, sha have first been enteredn the Secretarys
| book or regstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iifor sale--gvng
to the owner a corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and IN such order
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--the 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 ofcultiyation 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 1t, or the amount of
labor the age, if by children 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 Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
| press.
| 5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
| ties requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
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 Of planting and mod
| OF cultivation The means and measures of preser-
|
| 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
SouthernAgr agricultural and NJ, nufacturers Exchange
| 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
| a premium.
7th Premiums.--lt is impossible to name in mo-
tce 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 III II, 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 ii is intended TO give the action of
the Association the very wldest'scope, embr acing
every 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 on this point perhaps
is, that all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock Mechanics, Agricultural Inn
plements, and valuable Improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
| ces cup worth Z will be given on the third best
4 Z. % on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
j Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 5 will be given on the second
best 2 so on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and ctllaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three dollars-these how
everare general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, TO vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parli-
cularly TO the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work &c. They
are cordially invited TO attend. Their assistance
IN many der artmens 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
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed What il 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 aud assign to them theirrespectve de-
pdrtments, aud 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 here repeat, and enioin
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 art-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
: reports TO the annual meeting Wednesday,
Thursday will be devoted TO saes-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
unuing 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 annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary 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 CIV hsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborous business of
the fair
} 18th. The Secretary is directed to publish