The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-08

lnyf4E tfnh A&nual Fair Of the South6Tn Cent,
raj Agri6ittuiAt Il ssSciAtion, viii bcheId
during tA& weak emhfaciag Wednesday, the ! N
day Of August next, which IL the day 6f the ffth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
ghe Committee charged with the duty of pre-
cribing suGh general rules ~ they may deem
cessary To proper management of the approach !,
Fair, have adopted the following
0EHERAL Rs0uLArIo
Ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, aud cor
unue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
srahie that all persons having articles for exhibit
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.
"a The Association has an ample fund, and will,
III AL cases. become responsible tor the safe-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
cmccrs and committees, the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close of The Fair, which
wili De 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. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty 1t shall pc to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton, sha have first been eniercdn the Secretary
book or registry-theD labelled with the, owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--Eiving
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 az they may need in the arrangement
and labelling of articles
18th. 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, II Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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 ofcultivation. 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 il 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 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 i'm
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 Of preparation 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 several county
societies would make I'm an amount of yal,,abia
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions OF the Society.
9Th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and M.nufacturersExch change
We reuuesi individusls who have . snrnl's 81
choice articles, or who make them for sale -sucb
as choice seeds. machines. stock. &c.-to carry
them there for sale and NOT alone for evh;h;t;o ~
| premium.
7th. Premiums is impossible to name in a no
tce like this all the various artcles 70 ,~h;oh
mums will he granted Howsver c",rnraha,rs;v.
we might make anv enumerated l;st thars u,,,,d
stl he manv articles Of mer;, offsrsS ,h;ot ,,',iJ
not h. embraced in II ana 70. ~. S "ou.a
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