The southern press., 1851-09-09
oUTHERN CEN RAJ
AGkICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

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day OF August next, which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
eribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management the approaching
FAR, have adopted the following
GEAEaAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
| opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
'nue open until Friday evening 1t IS therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
tion shall be ON the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9Th aud 10th August when a Com
mitiee Will be there ready 10 receive them.
"a The Association has ample fund, and will,
III all eases, become responsible for the safe-keepDg
oi articles which may be placed IN the hands oil Its
ollcers and committees, The owner taking check
ior the same) until the close OF the Fan, 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.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM Ezzard, and James nj. Calhoun,
| appointed committee whose duty il shall be TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxhi
ition sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or regsuy--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--giving
to the owner a corresponding card-and then ciassi-
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
| exhibtion--the statement TO be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
Of 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 Of planting mode ofcultivaton. If an Animal
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &c. II
Needle-work or Painting, any work Of Art, the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age ifby children or very old persons
tie value, uses &c. Since this is she most reliable
mode Of collecting such information 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 servera county Soce-
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-
ring, which have been or in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their ccnntees
the modes preparation. time of planting and mod
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the scrveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable TO make the Fair Central
| neutrality-suspicious. aud .nufacturersE 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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
| 7th Premiums Sit is impossible to name Il, no
tice 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-
miums for particular articles might be Construed by
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced,
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 or useful IN business
! or art A u then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are lnyted 10 come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is, 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 vii be gwen; on the second best arti-
cies cup worth I 5 will be given, on the third best
So. so on the fourth an honor. And on all art
j ces of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor. On mlner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three doliars--these, how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, TO vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned part-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings neede-work, &c They
are gh n off Thatr
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-
n sence 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, ,whatit It's in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
/ 10Th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrimenfs, and 10 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 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
mitees proceed al once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
r reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday viii be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-dehvery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atanta 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 Billups, OF Athens, Georgia
l3h. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Oeorge Railroads, TO accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, TO
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur,
to CIV nsitors the opportunity Of the accpmmo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
} and others engaged in the laborous business of