The southern press., 1851-08-07

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|vTyHE fiAh Anuua1 Esir ~ to NS0utlmsa Csef
raj Agricultural Associstion, will bcheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, tho 18th
day OF August noxt, which n tho day OF tbs NTH
annual meeting Ut Atlanta 0sosgia
The COMMITTEES charged with the duty OF pros
criLing such general rules they may deem ne
csssary 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-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
tion, 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 an ample fund, and will,
In oil cases, become responsible for the sae-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
officers and committees, (the owner tsklng check
for 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 soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
iton sha have first been enteredn the Secretary's
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-gvihg
to the owner corresponding card-apd then classi-
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, az 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--ihe 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. IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode of fcultvation. 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&he 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 Socie-
ties are requested and enoined to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, 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 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 the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ IA acturer Exchange
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 not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles to which pre-
miums will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumera ated 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
somento an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended TO give the action OF
the Association the very widest'scope, embr acng
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All thcn with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
ia, 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 art-
cles cup worth S 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 cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 8 2. SO on the third honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous 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.
9th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
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 70 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
rida. 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 a consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments 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 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
mittees 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 sales-Friday to gen
eral redelivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tihuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at A,Iants early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.