The southern press., 1851-07-09
ERN GENITAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

raj Agricultural Association will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 9Th
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
cessary 10 aproper 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-
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibi
ton, 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.
3D. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safckeeping
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. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w
Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that alfartcles entering the fair grounds for exhi
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner a corresponding card-and then CLASH
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, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--iho statement TO be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il a 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 ofcultvation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c. Ii
| 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 sc. 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 )egble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the servera 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 i'm
provements in farming, tillage draining and manu-
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adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes preparation. time ofplanting and mod
Of cultivation. The and measures Of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the scrveral 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
SouthernAgrcultura and snufacturers Exchange
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 salc and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th. Premiums is impossible to name in a no
tice like this ALL 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 theI eore the announcement OF pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto exclusion fall articles unannounced, 4,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful 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
s, 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 tne premium Oh cup
worth l0 will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
-. 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 9. SO on the third honor; on the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doliars-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.
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, need!cwork, &c. They
e are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely
n cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 70 this central
y point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
# sence and contributions Of many of fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
Y rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what tits in name, Southern
i Central Agrc ultural Association.
/. 10th. The President upon consultation witt
such members he call to his aid shall appoin
committees and assign to them their respective de
s pt'riments, and to these committees appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
= articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of thI'
o arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
IS 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
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti
At ces, and thereby have ample time to make thei
'r reports to the annual meeting Wednesday
E. Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
eral re-dehvery Of articles. The exhibition con
timing the whole time
1lth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, th
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta earl,
l. Monday morning Of the Fair week.
l2th. The annua! oraton will be made oil
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
s, by Col John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
8, 18th. The Committee have the prospect O
i making arrangements with the Macon, State an,
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the efternoon L
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