The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-05
sOUTHERN CENTRAL


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IvNHE Firth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with The duty OF pres
criblng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirable 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
OIL articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
oflcers and committees, The owner taking check
Tor the same,) until the close OF the Far, 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.
I'd. 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 exit
ition, shall have first been eneredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, flor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as 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.
| Thara mill ho I'D in oil
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, II Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, COST time of invention, and
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 ofplanting, mode ofcultvation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or 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 or 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 at once for the
| press.
ties are requested and enjoned TO make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition Of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
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 ofpreparaton. time ofplanting 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 DO sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
| 9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricu and Exchange
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 1T 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
somcnto an exclusion ofall articles unannouncedl
the Committee requests the people generally te
Observe hat ii is intended to give the action o.
the Association the very widest'scopc, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful In bushes.
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 3 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cies cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
90. SO I; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given; on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor; on the fourth
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dollars--these how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will bt
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned part-
8 cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
/, fruits, flowers paintings, needle-work, &c. They
E 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 TO 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
this institution indeed, what il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10Th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee oil reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles 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 enjoin
upon all to take notice ,hat 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 may
have their lists Of articles, and the several COM
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles. and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales---Frday to gen
eral re-deivery 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.