The southern press., 1851-12-23
SOUTHERN CENTRAL
4. n I<ssJI It'll Al. ARS(D(tI AsIinR

FI1tE FIlth AnuIal BIZ OIL the SoutherD Cent,
] j raj Agricultural Association, will bshsld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting al Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
crbing such general rules as they may deem ne
csessary to aproper management Of the approaching
rair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lot The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibi
ion, shall be on the ground as early az Friday or
Saturday, the 9th aud 10th August when Com
m'ttee will be there ready TO receive them.
%. The Association ha, ~ ample fund.- and will
IN all cases, become responsible for the saie-keeping
oil articles which may be placed IN the hands OF its
cheers and committees, the owner taking 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 the
Association.
Sd. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton shaI have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or iegistry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--gvng
to the owner corresponding card-and 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
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition-the statement TO be delivered TO the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, a statement
OF Is powers and uses, cost, time Of finyentiOn 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 OF cultivation. If AN Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising, &c. IL
Needc-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 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 Iegbe hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the servcra county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoned to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provcments 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 OF preparation. time of planting and mod
OF cultivation The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility oflands 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 Central
SouthernAgricultural and MISUNDERSTANDING
We request individuals who have q surplus Of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sale and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th Premiums. 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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdest'scope embf 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 this point perhaps
s 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 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth IS will be given on the third best
80. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
, ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best 9. SO OH the third am honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dollars--these, how
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 part
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings neede-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 centra
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions of many of our fellow
f citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed whatits in name, a Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can 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 classec and arranged in their respective
departments. order TO the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed TO publish
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
hnye their lists of articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at once TO the examination of arti
cles, and thereby have ample time to make theil
reports to The annual meeting ON Wednesday
7 Thursday will be devoted to saes--Friday to gen
era re-delivery of articles The exhibition con
tinuipg the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations of or additions TO, tn,
foregoing rules, will be published at Atante early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. The annua. oration will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia
y l3th. The Committee have the prospect o
? making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
, Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car;
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tc
Crlihn. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to CIV iIsitors the opportunity of the accommo