The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-20
SOUTH ERIN CENT RAJ
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

THERN CENTRAL
GRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TIME Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
i raj Agricultural Association will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the itf
day of August next, which is the day OF the fifth
ANNUAL meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
crbng such general rules they may deem ne
cessary 10 aproper 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-
unue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirablc that all persons having articles for exhibit
tlon, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
miltee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IA all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeplng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF lis
ctlicers and committees, (the owner taking check
Tor the same,) until the close OF the Far, 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 NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty 1t shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
ion, shall have first been enteredin the Secretary S
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name and resdence---and price, if for sale-giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fled and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abOrs Of the several committees
4 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
1 cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
7 exhbiton--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
maker Ii horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultvation. 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 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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5lh. The delegations of the servcraI county Socic-
ties are requested and enloned to make out, upon
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 of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures Of prescr-
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
SouthernAgricullural and Iufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have 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 is impossible to name in a no
tice 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 mghtbe construed by
| someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat j. is intended to give the action of
: the Association the very wdest'scope, embI acng
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited 10 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
plemeDts, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium oil cup
worth 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, the third best
2 50; 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 = SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dol.ars--these, how
evcrare general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
culary to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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-
scnce 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 tits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid, shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
porlments, 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 once to the examination of art-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
eral re-deIIvery Of articles. The exhibition Goa
tnuing the whole time,
llth. Any alterations Of or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Annive rsary meeting,
immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col, John Billups, of Athens, Georgia.
l3th The Committee have tho prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
lienrcIa Railrnads e.,-a