The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-22

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name and residence--and price, if for sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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 buildngs, 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 q Machine . statement
of is powers and uses, COST time Of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker II horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time ofplanting, mode ofcultvaton. 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, ifby children OF 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 win take notice,
that a 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 ct at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested ard enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, q report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, 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 of 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 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and ManufacturersExch
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, OF who make them for sale such
as choice Seeds machines, stock &c---to carry
them there for sale and not alone for exhibition for
q premium.
7th Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in no
tce like this al 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-
mums 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 the action of
the Association tho very widestsscope, embra cing
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
u.s. 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-
clcs cup worth will be given on the third best
-. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
mcnts cup worth I S will be given on the second
best 3 SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
ID honor On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to 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 parti-
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 70 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 il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
luth. The President upon a 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 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 may
nave their lists OF articles, and the several com
mlttees proceed at once to the examination of art
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 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published ut Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
I2th- The annua! 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 give vistors 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 OfEcers
and others engaged in the laborious business of
the fair.
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULTIVATION, and to pro-
cure MS far as practicable their publication in the
weekly papers of this and the adjoining Stntes
ny order OF the Committee Of Arrangements
DAVID w. LEWIS,
Sec'y Southern Central Agricultural Association
Sparta, 18th June, 1850.
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