The southern press., 1851-09-06
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AGHICULTUxALA l. AbSOCbATHON.

annual meeting al AlaAOtA ucofKia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management OFT approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening 1t 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
mlttee will be there ready 10 receive them
3D. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the saie-keepng
ol articles which may be placed IN the hands OF lis
citcers and committees, (the owner taking 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,
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
tion shall have first been enteredin the Sccretarys
book or regstry--then labelled W tn the owners
name and residence--and price, flor sale-giving
TO the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fed and arranged by departments, aud in such order
to facilitate the abors 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--.he 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. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode of cultivation. II an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, SC. 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 persons
tie value, uses &c. Since this is the 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 egible hand, and in style fit ut once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral 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 inn
provements in farming, tiage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress ofbeing
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
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ Msnufacurers 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
tnor. for oil opl,> H.
premium.
7th. Premiums.-lt isimpossible is to name in no
tice like this all the various articles TO which pre-
mums 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 OF all 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, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, invited to 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 a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Z. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 5 will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and miscell ellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three doars-ihese how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
OF cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
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
cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 20 this central
point induce us.to invite, and to expect the pre-
T sence and contributions Of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and Flo
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what is in name Southern
Central Agric ultura Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call 10 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
aItiees classed and arranged in their respective
!, departments. In order to the perfection of TIM
} arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
: these regulations, viii 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 or
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
T reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen.
eral re-devery Of articles. The exhibition con.
tinuing the whole time,
l1th. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annual Grafton will be made or
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
)3th. The Committee have the prospect o
masing arrangements with the Macon, State anc
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation carr
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tC
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ hsitors the opportunity Of the acoonnao
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while il
attendance upon the Fair.
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
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