The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-17
SOUTH ERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

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-
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sraDe that all persons having articles for exhlbi-
ton, shall be on the ground 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,
ID all cases, become responsible for the safekeepng
Of 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, WIN. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding card--and then CLASH
fed 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
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
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, IL 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 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 legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
9Th. The delegations Of the several county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several countless Of the inn
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 appropriation. time Of planting and mod.
ofcultiyation. The means and measures Of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands ACCURATE
Agricultural memoirs from the serveraI 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
Southern Agricultural and NJ uufacturers Exchange
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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
It'll. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles TO which pre-
mi,ms 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 vet 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 it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious or useful m 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 cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best art-
ces cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
81 so; on the fourth 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 misce llaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doliars-hese, how
everare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested, TO vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-work &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
IN many departments of the fair is absolutely me-
cessary to proper management
9Th The facilities of getting 70 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 a Southern
Central Agric utural Association
10TH The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
ptrtments, 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
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 will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions 10, 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,
by Col. John Billups, of Athens, Georgia.
18th. 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,
to give visitors the opportunity of the accommo
dations o. the good Hotels those places while in
ATTENDANT upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business of
the fair.
10Th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CuLTIvAroR, and to pro-
cure as far as practicable their publication in the