The southern press., 1851-08-01
sOUTHBRN GENITAL

day OF AuE1nt next, which IL loo Gay 81 Me nItn
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia t
The Commii@sS charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem me-
cessary 10 proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following *
GEnEnAL RKouLATIoAs.'
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will bc
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhib-
ton, shall be on tho 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 an ample fund, aud will,
IN all cases. become responsible for The keeping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
cheers 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. T
3d. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
ition, sha have first been enicredin the Secrearys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--giving
to the corresponding card---and then classi
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the lab0rs 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
exhibtion--the statement TO be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinyenti0n and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, Sc If
Needle-work or Painting, or any work Of Art, the
| length of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor the age, il 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 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 Socie-
ties requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consulation a report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements in farming tiliage, drsinils and manu-
ring, which have been 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 a Central
| SouthernA agricultural and dM,nufacturersExchange
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
fhapa (ors oil for ror
| a premium.
| 7th. Premiums.--lt is impossible to name in
tce like this all, the various articles 10 which pre-
nums 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 ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
: observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
! the Association the very widest'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, 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 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 will be given on the third best
I 81. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all art
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments a cup worth S 5 will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and misce elIaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars--these, how
ever, ARE general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested, to vary the rule.
9th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
frtifs iufi In ,,nrlr
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, aud to expect the pre-
f sepce 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 lis in name Southern
| Central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members 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 classcd and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
D arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
s these regulations, will here repeat, and enjon
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
mitees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
It cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
II reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
: Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tnuing the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
e foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
l. Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! oration will be made or
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 o
j. making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
n Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, u
y Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountan and Decatur
|, to CIV. nsitors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while il
r, attendance upon the Fair.
4, 14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided