The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-07
UThERN CENTRAL
AGAICHLTURA ASSOGlATlOE,

AGRICULTURAL ARTICULATION.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the southern Cent
j raj Agricultural Association, will behelf
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tf
day of August next which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribipg such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GEsEaAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
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.
"a The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN oil cases. become responsible for the safe-keepiDg
OF 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 M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty ii shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxhi
itoD, shall have first been enteredn the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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 ofcultivation. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising &c. If
Needle-work or Painting, or 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 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 legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press. tp8 s et;NA
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
Coneuiauon, report OI inc present COndlu0n OF
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the i'm
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products oftheir 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 10 sent out in the published trans
actions of the Socjety
9th. 1t Is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricul and N nufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who iiove a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them IT, sale such
as choice Seeds machines, stock, Gc--to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL the various articles to which pro-
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 ofall articles unannounced.
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdest'scope embI acinp
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
10, 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 will be given on the third best
y. 81 on The fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best =. 50; on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dolars-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 par,i-
cularly 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
ces.ary 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.
iV'h. Inc PRESIDENT upon a consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees aud assign TO them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
o"o diidhStu III tntlT respective
departments. 10 order to the perfection of thus
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoin
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 to the examination of arti-
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 re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of tbs Fair week.
18th. The annua. Grafton viii be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
18Th. 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 hstors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.