The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-10
OUTHERN CEN RAJ
AS.RICuLTJJRA ASSOCIATION.

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules they may deem
cessary TO aproper 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-
tnue open until Friday evening. IL is therefore de-
srable 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 ample fund, and will,
III all cases, become responsible for the saie-keepng
OIL articles which may be placed IN the hands OF lis
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.
3D.. Mark A. Cooper Richard Peters, David w
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton, sha have first been eheredn the Secretary
book registry--then labelled W tn the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor saie--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fled and arranged by departments, and in such order
as 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
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--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If 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
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the pedigree 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 a premium will not be awarded to any arti-
| Gle, whatever its merit unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and ip style fit at once for the
| press.
| 5th. The delegations Of the servera county sooe-
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, tillage dralniI 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 thefertility 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. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and Manufacturers xchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choiee articles, or who make them for sale such
| as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sale, and not aone fer exhibition for
premium
Tth Il ;c;. ~
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 by
somento an exclusion ofall articles unanncunced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended 10 give the action of
the Association the very widestssaope, emDr acng
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
ID, that, on 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, q premium of a cup
worth ~ will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
So. so on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
mepts a cup worth 5 viii be given on the second
best Q. so on the third az honor; on the fourth,
! I'd honor On miner and miscel laneous articles
premiums from one TO three dullars--ibese 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
sth a hall viii be prepared and assigned part-
| cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
| fruits, flowers paintings, needls-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 usto invite, and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and Flo
| rlda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this Institution indeed what il is in name Southern
| Central Agrc ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can cali TO MS asI 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
! alpcles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, The oSmmittee appointed to publish
these regulations, will hrrs repeat, and enioin
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 that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
MONDAY morning, the committee OF reception may
have thelF lists OF articles, and the several COM
mlttees proceed al once to the examination of art-
Giles, and thereby have aWple lime to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday To gen
eral re-deiyery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing 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
l2h. The anpua! grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports Of c6mmtioes
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
Gr'ihn. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to CIV hsitors the opportunity Of the accommo
dauons ofthe good Hotels at those places while il
attendance upon the Fair
l4th The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged in the leborious business of
| the fair.
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish