The southern press., 1851-11-21
OUTHERN CEN RAJ
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management of the approaching
FAR, have adopted the following
GEsERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tlnue open until Friday evening Ii is therefore de-
slrabe that all persons having articles for exhibi
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.
2d. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safekeeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
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 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 exhi
ition, shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, ffor sae--giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then classi-
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 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, a statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
ms akar nr Aortc
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. III
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 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 ccnntiees
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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ M,nufacturersE xchange
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
premium.
7th. Premiums. is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles 10 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 ofall 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, embr 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
plements and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cup
cles cup worth S will be given on the third best
2. so; on the fourth an honor. Aud on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS 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 dolars--these, 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.
| Sth. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
I cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits flowers paintings, needle-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 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. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what tits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his ad shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
ptrlments, and TO these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classed and arranged in their respective
/ departments. In order to the perfection of thus
arrangement the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoin
upon oil 10 take notice that articles for exhibition
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 the examination Of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time TO make their
4 reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delvery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published et 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.
| I3tb. 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
4 Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ. 'sitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dstons 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,