The southern press., 1851-12-22
SOUTH ERN CEN RAJ
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
crlbing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings viii be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening IL is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor exhioi-
ton, 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.
| I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and VIII,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safe-keePng
OF articles which may be placed In The hands al lis
officers and committees, the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close OF the Fair, when
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. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
| Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James M Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty II shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
iton, sha have first been enteredn the Secretary's
book or regisry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, if for sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fled 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-ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinventon, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
M If fnrep off iOn Of lam m nd
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, sc. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information as may be
worth publishing in the transactions ofthe Society,
visitors patrons and members all will take notice.
| that premium will not be awarded to any arti-
cle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations Of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several countless 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 ccuntiees
the modes OF preparation time Of planting and mod
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
SouthernAgricultural and NJ MISUNDERSTANDING
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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums. Sit 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 b.
someinto an exclusion all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally {.
, observe, hat it is intended to give the action o
; the Association the very widest'scope, embr acny
, every thing that is ingenious useful IN brsines
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sal,
or exhibition, invited to come The onl
regulation further necessary OH this point perhap
il, that on all articles of the highest merit in th
department OF Stock, Mechanics Agricultural lm
n plements, and valuable improvements or invention
in any of the departments, premium OF a cu
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti
cles cup worth 4 5 will be given on the third bes
So. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
= cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
. ments cup worth IS will be given on the secon,
. best 5 2. 50 on the third an honor on The fourth
/ ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
q premiums from one TO three dollars--these, how
ever ARE general regulations, and in particular
), or cases of peculiar merit the committees will b.
e permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
J., 9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned part
culary 10 the Ladies for their garden products
1 fr,,ttu moi nfInUo Jla-, a. hc
|. are cordially invited to attend. Their assistanc
e in many departments of the fair is absolutely
e cessary TO proper management
n 9Th. The facilities of getting 70 this centra
point induce us'to invite and to expect the pre-
y sence and contributions Of many Of our felloN
If citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
d rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in maxim
this insttutonindeed ,whatitis in name, Souther
h Central Agric utural Association
Al 10th. The President upon q consultation wit
such members he call TO his aid shall appon
committees and assign to them their respective de
h pdrtments, and TO these committees so appointe
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of Tn
n articles classeo and arranged in their respectiv
l. departments. al order to the perfection of thl
g arrangement, the committee appointed to pnbs
o these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoi
IS upon all to take notice that articles for eYhibltio
e may be received and arranged on Friday and Sa
urday the 9th and 10Th Of August, so that whe
thN 'Noi"S"' "pl'oHt hiN bohhHte'ts "
Monday morning, the committee OF reception ma
have their lists of articles, and the several con
mlttees proceed at once to the examination of art
clcs, and thereby have ample time to make the
at reports 70 the annual meeting Wednesday
Or Thursday viii be DEVOTED to sales-Friday to ger
e eral redeliyery OF articles. The exhibition cor
tnung the whole time
llth. Any alterations Of, or additions 10, III
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta earl
ne Monday morning Of the Fair week.
:" I9th. The annual Grafton will be made o
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meetn.
immediately preceding the reports of committee
- by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
- l3tb. The Committee have the prospect
- making arrangements with the Macon, State an
II Georgia RAILROADS, to run accommodation cal
on early every morning and late in the afternoon
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatu
's 'ss to Civ dsiiors the opportunity Of the accomm,
o' datIons ofthe good Hotels those places while
attendance upon the Fair,
er' l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provide
IN comfortable quarters for Committees and Officer
-, and others engaged in the laborious business