The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-04
SOUTHERN CENTRAL

FAIR have adopted the following
GEKERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors ON Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening. Is therefore de-
sirabIe that all persons having articles for exhibit
lion shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready TO receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will
IN all cases, become responsible for The safekeepg
articles which may be placed in the hands Of It's
Ulcers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of The Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time to
give them opportunity 10 recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Assoc iation. ~
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, WIN. 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, shat have first been eneredin the Secretary
book or registry-lhen labelled W tn the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--giying
to the owner corresponding card-and then classi-
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
| as to facilitate the ab0rs 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. vi Ht) Gf
4th. There will positively be required in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
Illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition-ihe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, II Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, COST time ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker. Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcultivation. II 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 i'll 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. ot ssG aercti ~ es $1,000 n
5th. The delegations of the seryeral county Soce-
ties are requested and enioned To- make out, upon
consultation, report Of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyements 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 preparations. time ofplanting aud mod
of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
| Agricultural memoirs from the seryeral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
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actions Of the Society.
| 9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and MtnufacturersEx 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 sale, and alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
It'll. Premiums. sit is impossible to name Ia a no
tice like this ALL the various articles 10 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 init, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest thes eiore the announcement of pre.
miums for particular articles mig be construed by
someinto an exclusion OF ell articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat 1t is intended to give tie action OF
the Association the very widest.scope, embr acing
sveTy 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
i that, all articles of the highest merit in the
department OF Stock, Mechanics. Agricultural In
plemeuts and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium OF cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth rs will be given, on the third best
81 50; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth : 5 will be given on the second
best g. SO on the third an honor on The fourth,
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dolars--these how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases Of peculiar merit the committees Will he
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned par'-
cuarly 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 NO
cessary TO proper management 4f
! 9th. The facilities of o.,f,p1 10 This cartrol
point induce US to invite, and to expect the pre-
sencc and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens # Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed WHAT is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10TH The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
pdrmeDts and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
Aiucles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed To publish
these regulations, will hire repeat, and enion
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 may
have their lists or articles, and the several com
m'tees 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 vii. be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
erul re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
unung the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
l2tf. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Billups, of Athens, Georgia.
l3h. 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 visitors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dations the good Hotels those places W lille in
attendance upon the Fair
14th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business of
the falr
18TH The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULTIVATION, and to pro-
cure as far as practicable their pri,1cation in the
weekly papers of this and the adjoining States.