The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-15
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AGRICULTURAL Association.

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during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tf,
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 10 proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
srablc 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
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
"a The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the bookkeeping
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. 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 exh
ion, shall have first been eneredn the Secretary s
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale-giying
| to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
to facilitate the abors 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, aud
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-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, = statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time Ofinvention, 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 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 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 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 Socie-
lies are requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consulation, 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 mods
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
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choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines stock, &c---to carry
them there for salc and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in 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 the announcement 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 widest'scope, embracing
svery 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 In
| plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth III will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
81. SO on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles Of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best .. so ; the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars--these, how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
| Of ppculiar merit fbe mil faa he
permitted, indeed arc requested to vary.the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned pari-
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 TO this central
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 We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what it is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10TH The President upon consultation with
such members as he can cai to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdr'ments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee OF reception shall furnish lists Of the
aiucies classed and arranged in their respective
departments. In order to the perfection of thus
arrangement the committee appointed to publish
"e'e icSuiatons, VIII mere repeat, and enloln
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
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make THEN.
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday Will be devoted to sales--Frday to gen
eral re-deivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations Of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlantis early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
l2th. 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.
| l3b. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to give visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
14h. The citizens of Atlanta have provided