The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-20

AGRICULTURAL AGnOC4AIIONs
lrTfiE Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
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 sassu VI
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribipg such general rules as they may deem me-
cessary 10 aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following ~ d bnit
nt GEhERAL REGULATORS. .8a,ft8f
| Let The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and CON
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
hon, 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 lhem-
I'd The Association has ap ample fund, and will,
~ all cases, become responsible for the sale-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers 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 tho
Association.
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, WIN. Ezzard, and James NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxhs
iton, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, III for salc--giving
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 ta0
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibiti0n--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 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, if by 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 win 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 at once for the
press
5th The delegations of the seryeral 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
proyements in farming, tage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been are in progress of being
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 MS
actions of the Society.
| 9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock, t&c---to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
q premium.
7th. Premiums is impossible to name in no
tice like this ALL the various articles 10 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 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'cope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful In 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
Isl that all articles of the hight 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 III will be gwen on the second best art-
Giles cup worth = 5 will be given on the third best
,. 30 ! on the fourth an honor. And all arti-
+ ces of the highest merit in the remaining dapart
ments cup worth IS will be given; on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor; the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
, premiums from one 10 three dolars--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.
Sth. hall will be prepared and assigned parii-
oularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
], fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work &c. They
c are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
n ccssary 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 It's in name Southern
Central Agric ulural Association.
10Th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can 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 classed and arranged in their respective
: departments In order to the perfection of this
D 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 10 the examination of arti-
i 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-delivery of articles. The exhibition CON
tinuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO- the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l2ih. The annua! Grafton will be made on
"Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
, by Col John Biliups, OF Athens, Georgia
, 18Th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
, Georgia Railroads, 10 run accommodation cars