The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-11

cessary 70 proper management 81 the approaching
FAR, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
ist The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
unue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sraoic that all persons having articles for exhibit
non, shall be on the ground early Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mlttee will be there ready 10 receive them.
ID The Association has an ample fund, aud will
IN all cases. become responsible for The sae-keepiDg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands Of IFS
ohicers 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
ition, shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, if for sale---gying
to the owner corresponding Garland 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 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-he statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine a statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time of inventon 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 ofcultivaton. IL 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 very old persons
tie value, uses, Sc 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 art-
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 several 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
prOvements in farming, tilage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes of preparation. time Of planting nd mod
of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveTal 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
SouthernAgricultural and MISUNDERSTANDING
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 not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th. Premiums is impossible to name in no.
tce like this ALL 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 il, and yet richly deserving
premiums lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion OF all articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdest'scope, embr acing
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
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth : l0 will be gwen on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
So. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth s 5 will be given; on the second
best 9. so on the third an honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one TO three doliars-these, how
general regulations, and in particular case
or cases OF peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parii-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle work &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
n mpnf IF he far io ahool alv
cessary to proper management
9Th. The facilities OF getting 20 this central
point induce usto invite, and to expect the pre-
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 whatit in name Southern
Central Agric ultura Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call 10 his aid, shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec and arranged in their respective
departments. III order to the perfection of this
arrangement, The committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enion
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, so that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee OF reception may
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti-
ces, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time
18th. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! 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, 10 run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, TO
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
TO CIV nsitors the opportunity of the accomno-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair
I4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business of
the far.
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULTIVATION, and to pro-
cure as far as practicable their publication in the