The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-14
SOUTHERN ENTRAL
LCR ICUu.TTIRA AaSOClATION

SOUTHERN CENTRAL
GRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS.
TvHE Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the i4th
day Of August next, which is the day OF the filth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tinue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor exhibit
tion shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive Them
%. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safekeepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (the 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.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W..
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall he to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
on shall have first been enteredn the Secretary s
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-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 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.
rhare will noqtivalv he rauurAd all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement TO be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL a 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 of planting, mode of cultivation 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 legible hand, and in style fit ut once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enoned TO make out, upon
consultation 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 ofpreparation. 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
oiptIp kp of L.,
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. II is desirable to make the Fair a Central
Agricultural and NJ: nufac turers 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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tice like this all, the various articles to whish 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 ii is intended TO give the action OF
the Association the very wdestsscope, embI acing
every thing that 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, 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 10 will be given on the second best art-
ces cup worth will be given on the third best
So so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
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best g. 50 on the third an honor on the fourth,
ID honor On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doliars--these, how
everare general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for thoir garden products
fruits flowers paintings, neede-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-
f 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 tits in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
l0th The President upon q 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 of 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 enoin
upon oil 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 of articles, and the several COM
mitees 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-7Frday to gen.
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
unuing the whole time
11th. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on