The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-14

/ raj Agricultural Association, will behSld
during the week embracing "Wednesday, the 18Th
day of August next, which il the day Of the fifth
annual meeting ut 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
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning and con-
tnuc open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirabie that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee viii be there ready to receive them. MOSS
"a The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases become responsible for the safe-keeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
cheers and committees, the owner taking a 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 lha
Association. ll sQ s1lsl4i
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
iton, shall have first been enieredin the Sccretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, ffor sale---givng
to thG 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. 20
Attn. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibitioD---the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il 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 Of planting, mode ofcultivation. If Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c. IL
Needle-work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount Of
labor; the age, by children or very old persons
tie value, uses, SIC. 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 several county soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tllage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of 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 seryeral 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
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ nufac turers Ex change
tpc4 vi tru1s VIII, r
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sae and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
It'll. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in no
tice like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
miums VIII 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,
me Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdest'scope, empr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful in business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
| or exhibition, 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 III will be gwen; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments a cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dol,ars--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
| Sth 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 TO 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 utural Association
10Th. The President upon q consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrfments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles ciassed 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 enion
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
mit'ees proceed at to the examination of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday viii 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 at Atlantq early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees, |
by Coi. John Blllups, OF Athens, Georgia.
18th. The Committee have the prospect Of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur,