The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-25
THEM CEN RAJ
AGRICuLTURA ASSOCIATION.

raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with he duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 aproper 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
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
tlon, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mit'ee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the saiekeeping
OIL articles which may be placed IN the hands OF It's
oihcers and committees, the owner taking a 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 M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, shall have first been enieredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giying
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time Of inventOn 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 ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, sc. 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 he
worth publishing in the transactions of The Society,
visitors patrons and members, all will take notice,
that premium W i'll 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.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties requested aud enioined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture IN their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tilage, 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 servera county
societies would make up an 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
SouthernAgricultura and NJ, MISUNDERSTANDING
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 not alone for exhibition for
| premium.
7th. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in a no.
tice like this all, the various articles TO 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 in il, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion of all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally &c
observe, hat it is intended to give the action OF
the Association the very widest'scope embr acinp
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
pements and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, a premium of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 5 will be given, on the third best
81 50 on the fourth an honor. Aud on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best =. 50 on the third an honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one TO three dollars-lhese how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, Deedle-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 20 this centra
point induce us'to invite, and TO expect the pre-.
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 lis in name a Southern
Central Agric ultura Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can 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 enjoin
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, 80 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
mttees proceed at once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
! reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday viii be devoted to sses-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing 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
18th. The annual 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
18th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to CIV fsltors the opportunity of the accommo-
datlOns of the good Hotels thoae urhie