The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-11
UTHERN CEN RIA l.
AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATION.

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TIME Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will behed
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day of August next, which is the day OF the nth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
| cribDg such general rules 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 VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles foy exhipi-
ton, shall be on the ground as 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 ample fund, ana VIII,
In all cases. become responsible for the saie-kecPing
oil articles which may be placed IN The hands OF It's
officers and committees, Ohe owner taking cheek
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 oil the
| Association.
3d. 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 exhi
ton shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, if for sale-givlng
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, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
| exhibtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcutivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree 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 persons
tie value, uses, sc. 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 Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
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 ofplanting 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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
Al. n
| We request individuals who have q surplus of
choice articles, 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 exclusion ofall articles unannounced
{ the Committee requests the people generally L
observe, hat it is intended to give the action
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
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 perhap.
is that on all articles of the highest merit in the
r.
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cur
worth ~ will be given on the second best arti.
cles cup worth 5 will be given, on the third bes
So. so 4; on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
ces of the highest merit in the remaining depnr.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best g so on the third an honor; on the fourth
. I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous 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 requested, to vary the rule
9th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti
cuarly 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
n cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 70 this centra
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
r sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
Y rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
i Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his aid, shall appoin
committees and assign to them their respective de-
s pdrtments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of tn,
= articles classed and arranged in their RESPECTIVE,
g departments. In order to the perfection of thu
o arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
8 these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoir
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 wher
the President shall appoint his committees OF
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
1t Giles, and thereby have ample time TO make the
'r reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday
= Thursday viii be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
sral re-devery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time
l1th. Any alterations of, or additions TO, tn,
e foregoing rules, will be published Atlanta early
l. Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. The annual GRAFTON will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
J, by Col John Billups, of Athens, Georgia.
III l3tb. The Committee have the prospect o
i making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, u
!, Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur