The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-26
THERN CEN RAJ
GRIGUTITIJAAL ASSnCIATION

IL l raj Agricultural Association, will behel
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4t
Of day Of August next, which is the day of the fft
Of annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
lr The Committee charged with the duty of pres
S cribing such general rules they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENEnAL REGULATIONS.
: LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
y opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabie that all persons having articles for exhibit
tlon, shall be on the ground early Friday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee Will be there ready to receive them.
I'd The Association has ample fund, and will,
10 all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands of its
omcers and committees, (the owner taking check
ior the same) until the close Of the Fair, which
VIII 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 sxhi
ition, shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resideDce--and price, if for sale--giying
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fled and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the labors of the several committees
on premiums T; 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, if Machine, statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention 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 ofplanting, mode ofcultivation. 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 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 leglole 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 countless of the inn
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 OF preparation. time 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 Central
SouthemAgricultural and Ms nufacturers Elk change
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
them there for sale, and alone for exhibition for
premium
It'll. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in a no |
hce like tins ALI the various articles TO which pre-
NUNS 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-
NUNS for particular articles might be construed by
somento an exclusion of all articles unannounced.
The Committee requests the people generally TO
observe, hat ii is intended TO give the action of
The Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or 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 perhans
ia, 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-
cles cup worth I D 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 depar.
ments cup worth ) 5 will be given ION the second
best 2. 50 on the third honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles.
premiums from one TO three dollars-these. how
everare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
arpr f.I ~
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned partj-
cuiarly 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
rlda VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what il is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call TO his aid shall appoint
committees and assign TO them ther respective de-
poriments, and TO these committees so appointed |
The committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
aiucies classed and arranged in their respective |
departments In order to the perfection Of thus |
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
mitiees proceed at once to the examination of arti
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-delvery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
l2th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports Of committees.
by Col John Blllups, OF Athens, Georgia.
l5h' 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 nsItors the opportunity of the accommo-