The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-18
SOUTHERN cENTRAL
AGRlCULTHRA NEGOTIATIONS

AGRICULTURAL ARTICULATION.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
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 the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and CON
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhib-
uon, 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 an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safekeeping
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. Marx 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 enteredn the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sae-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed 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 aYDaininU artiCIe for
exhibitoD-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il 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
time of planting, mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. IL
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 Iegble 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 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
neutrality-suspicious. andMs nufacturersE Elk change
We request individuals who have q surplus of
choice articles, OF 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.-It is impossible to name in a no.
ce 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore theannouncement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed BY
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very widcst'scope, embI acine
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 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 10 will be gwen; on the second hest arti-
Giles cup worth Us will be given, on the third best
~. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 9. SO ; on the third an honor on the fourth,
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premiums from one TO three dolars-these, how
everare general regulations. and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| Sth A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needle 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 10 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtmeDts, 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 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
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
m'ttees proceed at once to the examination of art
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make theil
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
unuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
12ih. The annua! Grafton will be made or
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Blllups, of Athens Georgia
18th The Committee have the prospect o
making arrangements with the Macon, State ant