The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-24
UTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION,

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raj Agricultural Association, will behelt
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4ti
day of August next, which is the day Of the ifti
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia f
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
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-
tlnuc open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
slrabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday OF
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,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
OIL articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers 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 M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh
ition, shahay first been enieredin the Secretary $
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdeDce-and price, flor sale-giving
fled 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 az 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
exhibtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time of and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. liz 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 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 Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition Of
agriculture III tuciT ScVeTdl 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 paraton. 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 Ii is desirable to make the Fair Cantrol
SouthernAgriculturala and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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 a no
tice 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-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion of all articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally tC
observe, hat it is intended to give the action Of
the Association tho very widest'scope, embI acine
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 I'm.
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of q cur
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti.
cles cup worth IS will be given on the third best
80. 50; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
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
| mi M rom mn IN I.Nlo
general regulations, and in particular case
or cases OF peculiar merit the committees will bt
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| 9th. hall will be prepared and assigned part
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, &c. The,
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistanc,
in many departments Of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management,
9th. The facilities of getting 20 this centra
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
n sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and Flo
rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in maxim
this institution indeed what tits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation witt
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoin
committees and assign to them their respective de
| pdrtments, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of thu
articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of thu
arrangement, the committee appointed to pnblisl
these regulations, viii here repeat, and enjoir
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 wher
the President shall appoint his committees OF
Monday morning, the committee of reception may
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti
cles, and thereby have ample time to make thei
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
timing the whole time
llth. ANY alterations of, or additions TO, thu
foregoing rules, will be published at Adantq early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annual Grafton will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John BIups, Of Athens, Georgia
/ 18th. The Committee have the prospect O
making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, u
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
civ ueltOrs the opDorfunitv of the ncrornp,o