The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-01
ERN CENTRAL
ASSOCIATION

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 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.
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-
slrabie that all persons having articles for exhibit
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.
"a. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
III all cases become responsible for the sae-keepng
OIL articles which may be placed In the hands of It's
officers 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.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard and James M Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
ition, shall have first been eneredn the Secrearys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland 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 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, ii Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lf horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultvation. 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 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 art-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egible hand and in style fit at once for the
press
5th. The delegations of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes 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 IL Is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultural and MtnufacturersE Elk change
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.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no
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 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 articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il 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 an 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
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
=. 81 on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles 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 miscellaneous articles
premiums from TO three dolIars-these, how
everare general regulations, and in particular
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, Deedle-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'o invite, and to expect the pre-.
sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
nda. VIC 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 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 |
hese regulations, VIII here repeat, and enjoin |
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 nav |
have their lists OF articles and the several COM
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their |
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday. |
Thursday will be devoted to saies-Fridav 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 at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week
l2th. The annual Grafton will be made on |
wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting, |
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col John Blllups, 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 Visitors the opportunity of the nccommo- |