The southern press., 1851-06-27
UTHERN CENT RAJ
A0RIETTIxTuRAL ASSOCIATION.

annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cessary to proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GEnEnAL REGULATIONS.
Isl The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
tlon, shall be on the ground as early Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee will bethere ready to receive them.
"a. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN an cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
cheers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
VIII be announced beforehand, in ample time to
give tham 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 beenenteredin The Secretary
book or regstry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, flor sale--giving
| TO the owner corresponding card--and then class-
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
to facilitate the labors Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks 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
exhibtion--the statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, q statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
paker. Ii 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 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, SIC. 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 q premium will not be awarded TO any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyements 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 ofplanting 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 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
SouthernAgrcultura and manufacturers Exchange
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
a premium
7th. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no
tice 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somento 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'cope, 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, on 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, a premium of cup
worth 5 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
: 2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Z cles of the highest merit in the remaining dcpar.
ments cup worth SIS will be given; on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
. ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
, premiums from one TO three dol,ars-ihese how
everare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, 10 vary the rule.
Sth. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
s cuarly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings neede-work &c. They
e are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
In many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
! ccssary to proper management,
9th. The facilities of getting 20 this central
point induce usfo invite, and to expect the pre-
f sencc 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 il is in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call to bis aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdriments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
| articles classed and arranged in their respective
Il 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, 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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday viii be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tnuing 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
18th. The annua! oration will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports Of committees,
by Col. John Biups, OF Athens, Georgia.
18Th. 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 Civ nsItors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair. af
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
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