The southern press., 1851-11-01
OUTHERN CEFTRA
AGRIrITITvJNA l. A 6SOCI ALTON.

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
oribing such general rules as they may deem ue-
cessary to proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
tion, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9Th and 10Th August when Com
Inittee will be there ready TO receive them.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
In all cases. become responsible Tor the le-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF is
thicers and committees Qhe owner taking check
for the same,) until the close OF the FAR which
will be announced beforehand, 10 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. M at, - -
Sd. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis VIM. EzZard and James M. calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty ii shall be 10 see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for ext
tion shall have first been eneredln the Secretary S
book or regislry--then labelled wth the owners
name and resideIce--aDd price, II for sale-glyipg
to the owner a corresponding card-and then classi-
fled and arranged by departments and IN such order
as to facilitate the labors Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such ppiieo and
the protection of the grounds aud buildings, and
such clerks as they may need IN the arrangement
and labelling OF articles. AA,
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibitioI--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, II Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time ofnyention, 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 ofcultiyation IL an Animal,
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 may be
worth publishing in the transactions Of the Society,
visitors patrons and members, all will take notice,
that a premium will not be awarded to any arti-
cle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the seryerai county Soce-
lies are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition OF
Agriculture in their several countless, 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 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 seryeral county
societies would make up an amount Of valuable
information 10 be sent out in The published trans
actions Of the Society. t
9th 1t is desirable TO make the Fair a Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ ,LufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeas, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in no
tce like this 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 announcemen of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion of all ARTICLES unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat /. is intended to give the action OF
the Association tho very widest'scope, embracing
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 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 q cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth I will be given, on the third best
8 2. so on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cies of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments CUP worth s 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor on the fourth
| Cd honor. On miner asd miscellaneous articles
! premiums from one 10 three doi:sys-these, how
ever are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested, to vary the rule
9th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly TO the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-work &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments Of the fair is absolutely NO
cessary 10 proper management
| 9Th. The facilities of getting 20 this centra
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
4 sence and contributions Of many Of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and Flo
rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what It's in name Southern
Central Agric uluiral Association
10th. The President upon a consultation witt
such members he call to his aid shall appoin
committees and assign to them their respective de
pdrlments, and TO these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of th
altices classcd and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of TIN
} Arrangement the committee appointed to publisI
these regulations, will here repeat, and enlo
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
| ur1ay the yin ana IUth OF August, so that whe
the Presldeat shall appoint his committees oi
Monday morning, the committee OF reception ma,
haye their lists Of articles, aae ,he reyeral com
mlttees proceed at once to the examination Of erti
I cles, and thereby have ample time to make thei
r rsports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
= Thursday VIII be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-deliyery of artie!es. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time
1lth. Any alterations OF, or additions 10, III
foregoing rules, will be Published at Atlanta earl
: Monday morning Of the Fair week.
i2th. The annua! oraton will be made o.
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col, John Blups, of Athens Georgia.
,3th. Tue Committee have the prospect G
making arrangements with the Macon, State an
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the Gherpoop, ,
. Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
, to Civ. hsitors the opportunity of the accommc
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while !
, attendance upon the Fair.
. 14th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provide
comfortable quarters Tor Committees and Officers
h and others engaged in the laborious business
the far, s.. .. ..