The southern press., 1851-06-26
T.HERN CEN RAJ
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

day of August next which ID the day OF the nlth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
oribing 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-
tnue open until Friday evening IT is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhbi
tlon, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, tho 9th and 10th August when Com
mlttee will be there ready 10 receive them
ID The Association has ample fund, aud will,
10 all cases become responsible for the safe-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
cheers and committees, the owner taking check
ior 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. M l
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, Vim. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
on, shall have frs been enicredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giyng
to tho owner corresponding card-and 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 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-,he statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinventon, 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 of cultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &C. If
Needework 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 art-
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 enoined to make out upon
consultation, 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 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 amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
SouthernAgriculura and Mtnufac cturers E. 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. 1t is impossible to name in no
tice 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
somcinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that il is intended TO give the action of
the Association the very wdestscope, embI 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, all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium Of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
-. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments a cup worth ) 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 one 10 three doars-these how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
OF cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
! Sth A hail 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 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
rda. We hope they viii unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| pdTtments, 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 enioin
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
me 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 once to the examination of art
cles 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 TO, the
foregoing rules, viii be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annual oration will be made on
Wednesday the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
immediately preceding the reports Of committees,
| by Col. John Biilups, 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
Gr'hn. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
TO Civ. fisitors the opportunity OF the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.