The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-07

UTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
1.-THE Fifth Annual FsiF Of TIE Southern Gent
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during tho week embracing Wednesday, the l4ttl
day of August next, which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia M
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
crbiny such general rulea as they may deem ne
cessary to proper manag of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following n
GEHERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, aud con-
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
slrablc 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. DISSATISFACTION has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the bookkeeping
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands of lis
cheers and committees, (he owner taking check
Tor the same,) until the close Of the Fair, which
J 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 Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, for sae---giying
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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
doorkeepers and clerks, Az 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
exhibtion-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 IL 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, SC. 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 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 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 countless of the inn
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 of plantin9and 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
inf In1 n f,nr Il,li hol
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and :nufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who hive 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
premium.
7th. Prcmiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles 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
someinto an exclusion all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embI acng
every thing that s'ingenous useful In business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
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 cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
5 =. so; on the fourth an honor Aud on all art
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth = will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor; the fourth,
ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from to three doliars-these how
ever,ar 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 part-
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 20 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
rda. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what is in name Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them Retrospective de-
| pdrlments, 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 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 to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to cen
eral re-delivery of articles The exhibition con
tinuing 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.
l2th. The annual Grafton Will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
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