The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-10

cessary 10 proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, 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.
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF lis
oIiicers and committees, (the owner taking check
for 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.
3D. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sae--giying
to the corresponding card--and 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 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
exhihition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, a 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 &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, SIC. Since this is .he 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 egible 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 inn
provements in farming, tillage, 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 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. II is desirable 10 make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and Ne nufacturers xchange
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 sae and pot alone for exhibition for
premium.
18th. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no.
tice like this all, the various articles TO which pre-
miums will be granted. However comprehensive
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, embI acing
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, 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, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth 4 will be given The third best
: 2. So on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
ces of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best : q SO on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dol,ars-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
i -, r A. r
cessary to proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 70 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
I 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 il is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdriments, aud 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 thus
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
nave thelr lists or articles, and the several COM
mittees proceed at to the examination of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make thar
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-deivery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tinung the whole time.
Nth. Amy alterations Of, or additions TO, 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, to run accommodation ears
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
\ Griffin, Maretta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ nsators the opportunity of the accommo-
datons ofthe good Hotels AT those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
4 I4th. The citizens Of Atlanta have provided
| comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business OF
the fair. Nt
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CuLrlvAreR, and TO pro-
cure as far practicable their puiilcstop 10 the