The southern press., 1851-07-25
ERN CENTRAL
A4RECULTUR ASS0Cl A Tf(7N

ERN CENTRAL
AGRlCULTURAL ASSOClATf0N.
TsHE Fihh Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tl
day OF August next, which is the day ot ths fifth
annual meeting al Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pros
cnblng such general rules as they may deem ne-
cessary to proper management Of the approaching
ar, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
tion, shall be on the ground early, Friday or
saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
nittee will be there ready 10 receive them.
ID The Association has ample fund, and will,
III all cases become responsible for the safekeeping
oi articles which may be placed in the hands of its
clhcers and committees, (the owner taking check
ior The same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, iD 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, Wm Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, shall have first been eneredin the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
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, 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
eases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time of ofinvention 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,
the 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 eDioined to make out upon
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 countless
the modes Of preparation. time ofplanting 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 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. andM snufacturers Elk change
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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
| q premium
7th. Premiums 1T 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 enumera ated 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
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat II is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'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
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department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best art.
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
p SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all art
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best g so; on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dol,ars-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. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cuIarly 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 ne
cessary to proper management,
9Th. The facilities of getting TO 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
this institution indeed what il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultura 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-
pdrments, 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 enjoin
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 their lists Of articles, and the several com
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles, 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-dehvery of articles. The exhibition CON
tinuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations of, additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2tf. The annua! oraton will be made on