The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-22

SOUTHERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
ITNHE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
l. raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
day Of August next, which is the day Of the nth
annual nesting ut Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
orlDing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 70 proper management Of the approaching
Fair have adopted the following
lA 0ENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
unue open until Friday evening. II is therefore &C.
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhiDl
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 an ample fund, and VIII,
~ all cases. become responsible for the safe-keePng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF IT'S
cheers and committees (tbe owner taking a check
Tor the same,) until the close OF the FAR, winch
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 it shall be to see
|
itioD shall have first been enteredin the Secrearys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, for sale---giving
to the owner corresponding card--and then classi-
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
doorkcepers and clerks, as shall be necessary for
the projection Of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
| and labelling of articles. as 8aa iL.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention 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. II
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, 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 legible 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 i'm
provements in farming tillage, drainilg and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products Of their countless
the modes Of preparation. time ofpanting 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. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. Manufacturers Exchange
We request individuals who have q 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
tce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
miuns 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 it, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miuins for particular articles might be construed by
someinto exclusion OF all 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, emb. acing
svery 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 this point perhaps
is that all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
pements, 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 5 will be given, on the third best
3 2. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining deuar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 2 SO on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On INNER and misce aneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars-these how
ever, ARE general regulations, and III particular case
| or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested TO vary the rule.
9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
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-
seDce and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens oil 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 call to bis aid, shall appoint
committees and assign TO them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists Of the
aihcies 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 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 viii. be devoted to sales--Frday to gem
erai re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
unuing the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations Of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules, will be published Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
l2tt, The annual Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting