The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-03
sou ERIN CEN RAIL
AGRICULTURAL AHAOCIATION.

THERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TNHE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 18th
day of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The COMMITTEES charged with the duty of pres
crlbiDg such general rules they may deem me-
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 ON Monday morning, and con-
inue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th aud 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. beoome responsible for the safekeepng
o. articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
cfilcers 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 NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
tion shall have first been enieredin the Secretarys
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, ffor sale--gving
| 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, az 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--ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, a 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 ofcultivalion. IL an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode Of raising, &c. 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 peraons
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 10 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
SIN The lelegatoas N the seryersI county soeie-
iios are requested and epIoiuea 10 make cii open
consaanonta report q tbe present conditions 81
Agriculture b their seFerai cauntiea 81 ihe in
fpgpyemerN y faiipins tllage drsining aad maun-
rng, Which nAsf benu nFAfe in progress 20 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
SouthernAgricultural andM Lufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus OF
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice DIS, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sale and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7tb. Premiums. sit is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles 10 which pre-
NUNS 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
somento an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give tie action OF
the Association the very wdestsscope, embr acine
svery thing that is ingenious useful in business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
il, that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 3 5 will be given on the third best
8 2. so; on the fourth honor. And on all nrti-
T Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 5 will be given; on the second
best -. so; on the third honor; on The fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars--these, how
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 parti-
! cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needc-work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
In many departments of the fair is absolutely me-
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 what it 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 aud 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
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.
h,.FS foxr has ii
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
tnuing 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.
l2lh- The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committee,
by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.