The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-12

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during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4lh
day Of August next, which il the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cnblng 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 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
tion, 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 will,
In all cases, become responsible for the safekeepDg
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 opportunity 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 it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
tion, sha.lhave first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled W tn the owners
name and residence-and price, if for sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
ned 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
doorkeepcrs 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
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
oil 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 ofcultiyaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock age, mode of raising, &c. II
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 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 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 legibe hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoned TO mako out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyements 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 preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the several 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 a Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ ;nufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th. Premiums.--It is impossible to name in a no
tice like this all the various articles TO which pre-
mlums VIII 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-
miuns for particular articles might be construed bv
| someinto an exclusion ofsll articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended TO give the action Of
the Association the very widest~scope, embracing
every thing Tat is Ingenious or useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, invited to- come. The only
regulation further necessary on this poin, perhaps
IL, that, all articles Of the highest merit in the
department of Stock Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth IS will be given on the third best
= 2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 5 will be given I; on the second
best $ 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and scellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doars-,hese how
eyer,are general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
ted IN fjo 10
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned pari-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, howers paintings, needie-work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend Their assistance
In many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary 10 proper management
9th. The facilities Of getting 70 this central
point induce us'lo 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 VIII unite with us In making
this institution indeed, what tits in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he 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
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat and enioin
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 once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday wiH be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time
nth. Amy alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week
l2tt. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Blllups, OF Athens, Georgia.
'5h. 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