The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-07


cessary TO aproper management Of the approaching
Far, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and CON
tnne open until Friday evening. Ii is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhbi-
uon, Shall be op the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9Th aud 10th August when Com
! mittee will be there ready to receive them.
| ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
III all cases. become responsible for the saiekeepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands of its
cheers 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 OPT ortunty to recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
| articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
| Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ion, shall have first been enteredn the Secretary's
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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, q minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhbition--ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il 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 ofcultivation If an Animal
Or aG raj Sc
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 will take notice,
that premium ill not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legiblc hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enloined 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 countless
the modes OF preparation. time of planting and mod
OF cultivation. The means and measures of prescr-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the servcral 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 Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ snufacturersE Elk change
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
premium.
It'll. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no
ce like this all the various articles TO which pre-
mums 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-
musns for particular articles might be construed by
somento an exclusion all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
OBSERVE hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widesl'scope embr acing
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
Is, 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, premium of cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
50. 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 second
best 2. SO on the third honor; on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles.
premiums from one TO three dolars-ihese how
evera 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 par,i-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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 10 this central
point induce us',o 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 tits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
iuth' lhe PRESIDENT upon consultation with !
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign TO them their respective de-
poTments, 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 thus |
arrangement, the committee appointed TO publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enioin
upon all to take notice that e-lcies 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-ence 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 sales-Friday to GEN
eral re-delivery 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.
I'm. The annual 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.
l3th. 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 'sitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair
| l4th. 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 CULT,yAToR, and to pro-
cure as far as practicable their publication in the