The southern press., 1851-12-29
SOUTH ERN CENT RAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.


crbing such general rules as they may deem ne
eessary TO proper management of the approaching
fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, aud con.
hue open until Friday evening Ii is therefore de.
sirabie that all persons having articles for exhibi-
nol' snail be on the ground as early as Friday OF
saturday, the 9Th and 10th August when a Com
mit'ee will be there ready to receive them.
"a The Association has ample fund, and will
~ all cases, become responsible for the saie-keepDg
oi articles which may be placed in the hands of its
clcers and committees, Che owner taking check
lor the same) until the close Of the Fair, which
VIII be announced beforehand, in ample time TO
give them OPT ortunty to recover their goods and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association
Sd. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. EZzard, and James Nj. 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 eneredin the Secretary
book or regstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--giying
to the owner a corresponding Garland then classi-
ned 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
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
exhibiton--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine a statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time of invention and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time OF planting, mode ofcultivaton. 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 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 iegible 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 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 Of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
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
SouthernAgricultura and NJ ,nufacturers 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.-lt is impossible to name in no.
tce like this all, the various articles to which pre
millms will be granted. However comprehensive
we might make any enumerated list there would
sll be many articles of merit offered which would
not be embraced in it, and vet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mlums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widesl'scope, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious or 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 on all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics Agricultural I'm
plemenis, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth l0 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth s 5 will be given on the third best
,. so on the fourth honor And on all arti
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar,
ments cup worth 50 will be given ION the second
best q so on the third an honor; on the fourth.
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one TO three doars-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
Sth. hall will be prepared and assigned part-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work &c. They
are cordially invited 10 attend. Their assistance
In many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management
9Th The facilities of getting 20 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
thls institution indeed ,whatitis in name Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association
i0'h. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdriments, and to these committees SO appointed
The committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
ducles classec and arranged in their respective
departments. ih order TO the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enioin
upon all 10 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 NAV
| have their lists OF articles and the several COM
| HlluteS 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 viii be devoted to saes-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
tnuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2tt. The annual Grafton will be made on
wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col John Bilups, 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
Grfhn. Marietta Stone Mountain and Decatur
to CIV nsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
detions ofle good Hotels at those places while in
attendance 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.
| 18th The Secretary is directed to publish