The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-12

cessary To aproper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds aud Buildings Will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening II IS therefore de-
slrabe that all persons having articles Tor exhDi
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mlttee will be there ready TO receive Them
3D. The Association has an ample fund, and Will,
In all cases become responsible for The saickeePhg
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands OF lis
oiicers and committees, Qhe owner taxing cheek
Tor the same,) until the close oil inc rair, "hich
will be announced beforehand ~ 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 committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxh-
ion shall have first been enleredin the Sscretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residcnce-nnd price, flor sale--giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fled 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.
9TH There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion--lhe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, statement
of is powers and uses cost, time of invention, aud
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker IL 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. IL
Ncedle-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 legible hand, and in style fit ut once for the
press. i
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm.
provements in farming, ,illage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products Of their cc,ntlees
the modes Of preparation time Of planting aud mod
OF cultivation The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the several county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
Neutrality-suspicious. andM Eufact Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or%ho 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 1t is impossible to name nano-
tce like this ali, the various articles to which pre-
NUNS 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
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
The Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended TO give tie action of
the Association the very wdesl'scope, emDI acng
every thing tLat 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, on 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 a cup
worth III will be gwen; on the second best arti-
cles 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.
nents cup worth Us will be given on the second
)est 3. so the third an honor on the fourth,
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from TO three doliars--lhese, how
,ver,are general regulations and in particular case
'r cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9th. hall will be prepared and assigned parii- |
,ularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
ruiis, flowers paintings, needle work &c. They
IRE cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
n many departments Of the fair is absolutely ne
,essary to proper management
9th The facilities of getting 70 this central
'oint induce us.to invite, and to expect the pre-
ence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
tizens OF Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
ida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making |
his institution indeed, what It's in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
UGH members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
'drtments, and to these committees so appointed |
he committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
Incles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of thus
the committee appointed to publish
hcse regulations, will here repeat and epjoin
Upon all 10 take notice that articles for exhibition
nay be received aud arranged on Friday and Sat
uudy tne Sil ana lUlil OF August, so tllat when |
he President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee Of reception nay
nave their lists OF articles, and the several com
nittees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
lies, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday vii! be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-deliyery Of articles. The exhibition Goa
inuing The whole time.
1lth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l2tt. The annua! Grafton will be made on
w Wednesday,, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bilups, 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, 10
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to give visltors The opportunity of the eccommo-
da'ions ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborlous business of
the fair.
10Th. The Secretary is directed TO publish
these regulations In the CULTIVATION, and to pro-
far tho III