The southern press., 1851-12-27
UTHERN CENTRA
AGRICULTURAL A0SOCI

/ i raj Agricultural Association will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day OF August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
criping such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO aproper management of the approaching
rair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGUL ATIoNs.
ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tihue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
uoh, 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.
%. The Association has ample fund, and will,
III all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepiDg
Oh articles which may be placed in the hands of its
oihcers 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
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
thai all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
iton, shall have first been entcredin the Secretarys
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, for sale--giving
to the owner corresponding card-and 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, 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
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If a 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 ofcultvaton. If an. Animal,
the pedigree or stock age, mode of raising, SIC. If
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 may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,"
visitors, patrons and members, all will take notice.
that a premium i'll 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 servera county Socie-
ties requested and enioined TO make out upon
consultation, report Of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties of the inn
provements in farming, tiIage, draining and manu-
ring which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricutura and dM,nufacturcrsE 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 sae 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
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 wdest'scope embI acing
every thing that is Ingenious useful business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are 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 inventions
! In any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth 5 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles a cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
| 8 2. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best 2. SO ; on the third honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misce ellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dol,ars-these, how
ever, general regulations and in particular case
or cases OF peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested to vary the rule.
Sth A 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-
sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what ii is in name Southern
Central Agrc 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-
pGriments and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec 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 his committees on
Monday morning, the committee OF reception may
have their lists OF articles, and the several com
mttees 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-Frday to gen
| eral re-deivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations Of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
12t. The annua! oration will be made on
| Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Blllups, OF Athens Georgia.
l3th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
/ Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon TO
| Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to giv iisitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in