The southern press., 1851-07-01
UTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

cessary TO proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings viii be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibi
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mitlee wall be there ready to receive them
I'd The Association has an ample fund, and will,
III all cases. become responsible for the saiekeeping
Oh articles which may be placed IN the hands of its
oiiicers 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 op; p;oriunty 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 il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
Iton, shn lhave iirs been eneredn the Secretary S
book or regisiry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale--giving
TO the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fled and arranged by departments, and in such order
TO facilitate the abors 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.
ath. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--lhe statement to be delivered to the
| Secretary. For instance, if Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, tine ofinvontion, 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 ofplanting, mode ofcutivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, Sc If
Noe 10 PAR. At
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 ill not be awarded to any art-
cle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
Illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
9Th. The delegations Of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enloned TO make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties of the inn
proyemens 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
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral county
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable 10 make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ nufacturers Exc 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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
| 7th. Premiums.--lt 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 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-
mlums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion fall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended TO give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope embr acing
every thing that rs ingenious useful In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
! or exhibition, 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, a premium of q cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
{ =. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
| ments cup worth 5 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misce ellaneous articles
i premiums from one 10 three dollars-tbese. how
everare 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-
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 ne
cesssry 10 proper management
9Th. The facilities of getting 70 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
4 sence and contributions of many Of our fellow
citizens OF Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
1da VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what tits in name, a Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon a consultation with
such members 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
ducles 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 euioin
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 nav
have their lists OF articles, and the several COM
mltiees proceed at once TO the examination Of ar-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday viii be devoted to soles-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition coa-
tinuing 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
l2th. The annual oration will be made on
Wednesday,, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia
i l3ih. 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, 10
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur,
to giv nsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dotions ofthe 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 aborious business Of
the fair
} 10th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the ftt rtv.rop and 10 nrn-