The southern press., 1851-03-28

THERN CENTRAL
AG GKlCuIEUKAL A l. ASSOCIATION,

/ soUTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL Il A6SOClATION.
lrTHE Fifth Annual Fair Of tho Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will behelA
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 18th
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 rulsa as they may deem ~! me-
cessary 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles Tor exhbi-
tion, shall be the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th aud 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
ID. The Association has an ample fund, and Will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safekecping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands of its
officers and committees Ohe owner taking check
for 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
Sd. 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 exhi
ition, shall have first been eneredn the Secretarys u
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--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 shall be necessary for
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks they may need in the arrangement
| 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 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 ofplanting mode ofcutivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising, &c. 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 Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the serveral county Soeio-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out uhon
consultation, report OF the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties Of the i'm
provements in farming, tiage, draipi,.s and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted, The leading products Of their countless
the modes OF preparation time 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 DO ssnt out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
| 9th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ Msnufacturers 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 salc and not alone for exhibition for
q premium.
7th Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no.
ce like this all, the various articles 10 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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somelntO an exclusion OF all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
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, all articles Of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
plements, and valuable Improvements or inventions
In any OF the departments, a premium of cup
worth > 10 will be gwen; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
50. so; 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 s 2. So on the third an honor on the fourth.
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dollars-these, 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 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 70 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. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
luth. The President upon consultation with
members as he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists Of the
"Nie' S'"Ssou anu arranged IN Their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of thus
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
'hese regulations, will here repeat, and enion
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 may
nave their lists of articles, and the several com
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art-
ces, ana merely have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday Will be devoted to salss-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 Atlants early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on