The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-04
SOUTHERN GENITAL

I UTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
ITVHE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will behsld
during the weak embracing Wednesday, the i4th
day Of August next, which y the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta MQeFgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing such general rulea as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhi0i-
ton, shall be ON the ground 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 safe-keeping
oil articles which may be placed IN the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (thc 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.
| 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 exhi-
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, ffor sale--giving
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 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
charlottesville 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 ofcultivation If an Animal
the pedigree stock, age, mode Of raising, SIC. 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
the 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 lcgible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out upon
consultation, report Of the present condition Of
| Agriculture in their several countless of the inn
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress Of being
adopted. The leading products Of their countless
the modes Appropriation. 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
SouthernAgricutural acknowledgements
| 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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
18th. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
mums 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 b,
someinto an exclusion OF all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally t
7 observe, that it is intended to give the action O
. the Association the very widestsscope, embracn,
every thing that is ingenious useful In bushes
or art. All then, with whatever they have for salt
or exhibition, are invited to come The onl,
. regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is, that, on all articles of the highest merit in thu
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
: plements and valuable improvements or invention:
in any of the departments, premium of q cur
, worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 4 S will be given, on the third best
2. SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 3 q SO; on the third an honor; on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
, premiums from one to three dollars-these, how
evera 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, heedle-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 10 this central
point induce us.to invite, and to expect the pre-
{ sencc 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, whatit in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10TH The President upon consultation with
such members as he 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 here 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 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-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing 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 oration will be made on