The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-27
UTHERN CENTRAL
A GRICnLTURA RAJ ASSOCIATION

raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday the l4th
day of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
eessary to proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhibit
uon, 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, and will,
In all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands of its
oHicers and committees, (the owner taking check
lor 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.
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 exh-
iton, shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale---giving
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, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibiton--lhe 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 fplanting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or 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, if by children or 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 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 are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
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 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
SouthernAgricultura and NJ ufacturersE e. change
inIiv d,,alo he r
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.--It is impossible to name in no
uce like this ali, 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
someinto an exclusion of all articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
| the Association the very wdest'scope, embr 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 I'm
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth ! 5 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 depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles
premiums from one TO three doars-these how
ever, ARE general regulations and in particular
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 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, whatt in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
| 10Th. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees aud 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 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
the President shall appoint his committees on
| Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
have their lists OF articles, and the several COM
mttees 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 saes-Friday TO gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations of, additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
| 18th. The annual 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, 10
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ. visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
datiOns fthe good Hotels those plsces ,hile In