The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-15

sirable that all persons having articles for exhbi
ton, shall DO on the ground ~ early ~ Friday o.
Saturday, tho 9th and 10th AUgust when Com.
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
3D. The Association has an ample fund, aud will
all cases. become responsible for the safe-keopins
Oh articles which may be placed IN the hands oft
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor the sams,) 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 OF
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
| Association. .4ealt s
Sd. 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-
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, if for sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the abors 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.
| lth. 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, II Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, COST time of invention, 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 ofplanting, mode ofcultvation. If an Animal,
tho pedigree or 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 will 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 legible hand and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral 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
provements in farming, tiInge, 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 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
SouthernAgricultura and M nufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus Of
choice articles, OF 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. 1t 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 il, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
somento an exclusion OF all articles nannounced =
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or useful in business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary 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 given on the second best arti-
clss cup worth 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 depar.
ments cup worth ! S 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 to three dolars-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. A hall will be prepared and assigned part-
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
a ccssary to proper management
9th The facilities of getting 10 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
Inst ts,f "a
! Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid, shall appoint
committees aid assign to them their respective de-
3 pdrIments, 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
0 Arrangement the committee appointed to publish
8 these regulations, will here repeat, and enjon
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, 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 once to the examination of arti-
I cies, and thereby have ample time to make their
r reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen.
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tlnuing the whole time,
18th. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
: Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! GRAFTON will be made on
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
j, by Col. John BIllups, Of Athens, Georgia. nv
j., 18Th The COMMITTEES have the prospect O
i making arrangements with the Macon, State and
n Georgia Railroads., to run accommodation carr
early every morning and late in the afternoon, u
>. Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
/, to Civ fsitors the opportunity of the accommo
da'lons ofthe good Hotels at those piaceswhile IL
r, attendance upon the Fair
D. iph. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
h and others engaged in the laborious business o
the fair
10 18th. The Secretary is directed 10 publish
these regulations in the CuLryAroR, and to pro
cure AZ far as practicable their publication in tn
= weekly papers Of this and the adjoining States.
By order Of the Committee Of A.rang ements
" "a tral DAVID w. LEWIS,
Sec'y Southern Central Agricultural Association