The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-19
UTHERN CENTRAL
A AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

annual meeting ut Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
eribing 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-
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhibit
uon, 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 safekeepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands of its
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.
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 have first been enteredn the Secretary's
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-givng
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, 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
exhbiton-ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, a statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker If horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcutivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, sc. 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 &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 a premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements 10 farming, lilage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products of their countless
the modes OF preparation. time fplanting 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. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
SouthernAgri and I'M ,nufacturersE 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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
| 7th. Premiums.--I is impossible to name in a no.
tce 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 theret the announcement Of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofail articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat ii is intended to give the action OF
; the Association the very wdest'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
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 given on The second best arti.
ces cup worth ! 5 will be given on the third hes
80. so on the fourth an honor And on all art
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth will be given on the seconc
best 9. so on the third honori on the fourth
ID honor On miner and miscellaneous articles
, premiums from one TO three dollars-these, how
, ever,a general regulations, and in particular cas-,
a or cases of peculiar merit the committees will b,
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned part
cularly 10 the Ladies for their garden products
fruits flowers paintings, needle &c. The
e are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair Is absolutely ne
n cessary to proper management,
9Th. The facilities of getting 20 this centra
v point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
I'll sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
d citizens Of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
y rida. We hope they will unite with us in maxim
h this institution indeed what il is in name Souther
II Central Agric ultural Association.
!. 10th The President upon a consultation wit
j. such members as he can call TO his aid shall appon
b committees and assign to them their respective de
8 pdriments, and to these committees appointe
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of tn
: articles classed and arranged in their respective
g departments. In order to the perfection Of TIN
o arrangement, the committee appointed TO publish
s these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoii
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 whei
the President shall appoint his committees oil
Monday morning, the committee Of reception ma,
have their lists OF articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti
It Giles, and thereby have ample time TO make thei
II reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
= Thursday viii be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
ernl re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, tn
foregoing rules will be published at Atlante early
i Monday morning of the Fair week.
12tt. The annual Grafton will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
!, by Col. John Blups, of Athens, Georgia
, 18th The Committee have the prospect o
! making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, t,
. Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur
d, to Civ, Visitors the opportunity Of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while il
> attendance upon the Fair.
/, l4h. The citizens of Atlanta have provide,
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
h and others engaged in the eborious business o
the fair.
o 18th. The Secretary is directed to publish