The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-08
SOUTHERN GEN 4 RAJ ll0
ASSOCIATlON.

cessary to proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
I GENERAL REGULATIONS,
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th aud 10th August when Com
mIttee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all eases, become responsible for the saic-keepDg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of It's
officers 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. 1.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
iton, shall have first been cneredn the Secretary s
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--giving
TO the owner corresponding card-and 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, 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.
9TH. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost time Of invantion, aud
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 ofcultivation. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age mode Of raising SC. If
Needle-work or Painting, or any work OF Art, the
length of time bestowed on il, 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 publishngin the transactions of the Society,
visitors patrons and members, all will take notice.
that a premium i'll 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. .,..a
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
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
proyemcnts in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes appropriation. time ofplahting 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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
Southern Agricultural and NJ .nufacturersEx Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice Seeds machines, stock, &e--to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium. "
It'll. Premiums 1t is impossible to me 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 you'd
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 unannounaed
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended 10 give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
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 this point perhaps
H. that all articles Of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plements, and valuable Improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, o premium OF cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best art-
ces cup worth ! 5 will be given, on the third best
= so on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
meats cup worth 5 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dosrs---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 parti-
cularly TO the Ladies' for their garden products,
| fruits, flowers paintings, Deedle-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 70 this central
! point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
sence apd contributions of many of our fellow
citizens oiC3roha, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. VIC hope they vii unite with us in making
this institution indeed what i is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
! pdrments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles cassed and arranged in their respective
| departments. In order TO the perfection of this
arrangement the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enoin
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 ihai when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee OF reception may
nave their lists or articles and the several com
mttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saIes-Friday TO gen
eral re-deivery Of articles The exhibition con
tnuing tbs whole time.
llth Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Far week,
| 18th. The annual 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,
| l3tb. 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
/ Grit5n, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ Gsiiors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe goo3 Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the FaiF
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged In the laborious business Of
the fair.
10Th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULrIvAroR, and to pro-
cure as far as practicable their publication in the