The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-18
SOUTHERN CENTRA
AGRICuITDRA ASSOCIA TION

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day Of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne.
cessary to proper management the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
! GENERAL REGULATIONS
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
| opened for visitors on Monday morning, aud con
tnue open until Friday evening. Ii is therefore de-
srabie that all persons having articles Tor exhibit
tlon, shah 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 safe-keepng
OF 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.
3D.. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M Calhoun, are
appointed a committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ition, shall have first been enleredin the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sae-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then class-
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 shalbe necessary for
the protection Of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and labelling OF articles.
Attn. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhlbltion-ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, 4 statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention and
nj hen fact ed vail la hy fba in
maker. If horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree 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 q
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 legbc hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
9Th. The delegations Of the servera county Socie-
ties requested and enioined to make out, upon
cOnsuation a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several 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 appropriation. 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. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM .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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
It'll. Premiums 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-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
! somento an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat II is intended 10 give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope emDr ac inc
every thing thai is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All then, with whateyer they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited 10 come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
ia, that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plcmenls, and valuable improvements or inventions
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worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 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 Will be given on the second
best 8 .. 50 on the third honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars-these how
eyer,are general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule.
18Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, &c. They
are cordially invited TO 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 ussto invite and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon o consultation with
such members he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their res pectivc de-
pGrtmeDts, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classeG and arranged in their respective
departments. lh 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 COMMITTEES Of reception may
have their lists OF articles, and the several com
mlttees proceed at once TO the examination Of arti-
Giles, 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
tlnuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations Of or additions TO, the
foregoing rules will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
| l2th. The annual Grafton will be made on
/ Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
| 10y Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia
| 9Th. 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 CIV Ositors the opportunity of the occommo-
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in