The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-20
SOUTHERN CEN RAJ
4 GRIGIIt ASSOCIATION.

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.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhbi-
ton, 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.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
cheers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor 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.
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
tion shall have first been eneredn the Secretarys
| book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, if for sale-giving
| to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
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.
4th. There will positively be required, in 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 III 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
| inn nf nnde off ulti yafi /
the pedigree or stock, age mode of raising, &C. If
| 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
9Th. The delegations 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
proponents 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 reparaon. 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
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricutural and ,nufacturers 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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th Premiums 1t is impossible to name in a no
tce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
mums 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 therelore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles mightbe construed by
someinto an exclusion ola articles pnqnnoupeed,
1t the Committee requests the people generally to
n observe, that it is intended to give the action Of
y the Association the very widnsi'scope, embr acine
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or ait. then, with whatever they have for salf
or exhibition, are INVITED to come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhap:
, 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 of the departments, premium OF cur
. worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third bes
81. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
- ces of the highest merit in the remaining depart
1; ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third honor; on the fourth
q ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
= premiums from TO three dollars-these, how
eEsrpre general regulations, and in particular CASE
% or OF peculiar merit the committees will b,
permitted, indeed are requested, 10 vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned part
"a cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
4, fruits, flowers paintings, neede-work, &c. The,
,e are cordially invited 10 attend. Their assistance
,e in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
in cessary TO proper management
9th. The facilities Of getting 10 this centra
" point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
OF sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
Id citizens of Carolina Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
~ rida. VIC hope they will unite with us In making
IN hs institution indeed what It'll in name Southern
al Central Agric plural Association.
e. 10th. The President upon consultation wit
such members as he cal, to bis aid, shall appon
III committees and assign to them 1heir seSpectiye de
M pdTments and TO these committees appointe
in the committee Of reception shall furnish lists Of tn
n articles classed and arranged 10 their respectly
1g departments. In order TO the perfection of TIN
to arrangement, the committee appointed to publis
ps these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoi
vel upon al 10 take notice that articles for exhibitio
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urday the 9th and 10th of August, that whe
the President shall appoint his committees o
Monday morning, the committee OF fsespton ma
have their lists Of articles, and the several CON
mittees proceed at once to the examination Of art
a. CltSt anu lheIeOy nave ample utne 10 make tbs
Tor reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
re- Thursday will be devoted 10 ssles-Friday ger
oral re-deiyery Of articles. The exhibition cor
tinuing the ~hoie tiHs.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions 10, tn
he foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta earl
IA. Monday morning Of the Fair week.
18th. The annual Grafton will be made o
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
IS, by Col Iobn Billups, Of Athens, Georgia
-, 18Th. The Committee have the prospect {
RI making arrqngements With the Macon, State ain
an Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, I
s Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decat,l,
d, to Civ istors the opportunity Of the accommc
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while i
r. attendance upon the Fair.
n 18th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provide
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
tn and others engaged in the laborious business c
the faIr.
to 18th. The Secretary is directed to publis