The southern press., 1851-12-25
nouTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
crbng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper 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
tlnue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhibi-
uon, shall be on the ground as early as FRIDAY or
Saturday, the 9th aud 10th August when Com
mittce will be there ready to receive them.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the sae-keeping
Of articles which may be placed in the hands of its
ollicers 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. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis VIM. EZzard, and James NJ. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be 10
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
tion shal have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--antpr price, if for sale-gying
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, a 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 ofcutivatiOn. If an Animal,
the pedigree 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, il by children very old persons
tie value, uses SC. 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 art-
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 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 i'm
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their ccuntlees
the modes of preparation 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 amount Of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM Observation-Disclosures
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
a premium.
7th. Premiums 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 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
somento 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, embI acing
every thing that is Ingenious or useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
OF exhibition, invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
is, that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock Mechanics, gricutural 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-
ces cup worth = will be given on the third best
8 2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
. ces of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth SIS will be given; on the second
best 5 9 so on the third honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars-these, how
ever general regulations, and in particular case
+, or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cuarly to the Ladies for their garden products
s fruits, flowers paintings, neede-work &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely
e cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 10 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-.
y 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 what is in name Southern
Central Agric ulural Association.
10th. The President upon 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 so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles ciassec and arranged in their respective
departments. order TO the perfection of this
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 bs committees on
Monday morning, the committee OF reception may
have their lists OF articles, and the several COM
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
T Thursday Will bedevoted to sales-Frday to gen.
eral re-deivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. 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.
, 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, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to CIV nsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dauons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
; 18th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborous business OF
he fair