The southern press., 1851-05-19
SOUTHERN cENTkAL


annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with The duty OF pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary TO 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-
srabe that all persons having articles for cxhibi-
lion, shall be on the ground as early as FRIDAY or
Saturday, the 9th aud 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready 10 receive them.
%. The Association has an ample fund.- and WILL
IN all cases. become responsible for the safekeepiDg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
oihcers and committees, (tbe owner taking check
for the same until the close of the Fair, 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 nj. Calhoun,
| appointed a committee whose duty ii shall be TO
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, shall have first been enieredm the Secretarys
book or regstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--gving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fled and arranged by departments, and in such order
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 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
exhibition--ihe statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of Planting mode ofcutivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree 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 egible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties of the inn
provemens in farming, tillage drainii,, and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
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 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
SouthernAgrcultural and NJ ;nulacturers 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 alone for exhibition for
q premium
| 7th. Premiums SIT is impossible to name IN mo
tice like tins ali, 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-
mums for particular articles mig be construed by
somelnto an exclusion ofali articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
Observe hat il is intended to give tie action of
the Association the very widest'scope embr acing
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, on all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics Agricultural I'm
plements, and valuable Improvements or inventions
| In any oil the departments, a premium of a cup
worth ! 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
5 2 so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti.
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments a cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third honor; on the fourth,
| ID honor, On miner and miscel laneous articles
! premiums from TO three dolIars-these how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested TO vary the rule.
| Sth A 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 10 proper management
| 9Th The facilities of getting 70 this central
point induce usito invite, and TO expect the prc-
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
tins institution indeed what il is in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call TO bis 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
iticies cl3ssed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order TO the perfection of thus
arrangement, The committee appointed TO publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enioin
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
have their lists Of articles and the several COM
mitees proceed once to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday viii be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery 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
l2h. The annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia.
l3h The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, 10 run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Gniin. Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur,
to CIV nstors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dauons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
of in H. LII