The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-25
SOUTHERN CEN IRA l.
AGUJCIJI ASSOCIATION.

cessary to proper management oil the approaching
FAIR, have adopted the following
| GENERAL REGULATIONS.
! LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening IL IS there'ore ae
srable that all persons having arucies LOT eHhipi
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them
| Cd The Association has an ample fund.- and WILL
in all cases, become responsible for the safekeeping
OF articles which may be placed In the hands OF us
officers and committees, the owner taxing cnech
for the same) until the close OF the ar, which
will be announce ed beforehand, in ample time 70
give them opportunity to recover their GOODS ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
3D. Marx 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 Tor exhl
ition, sha have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry---then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland Then classl-
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, 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.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, If a Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost time ofinyentiOn, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If 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
10 al nVk ~ 20 INV nf a rt thn
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 win take notice.
that premium will moi be awarded to any art-
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 several county Socie-
ties are requested and eDioined to make out upon
consultation, report Of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provemcnts in farming, tllage, drainii,, 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 preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the several county
information to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricutural and NJ, nufacturersE Elk change
We request individuals who have surplus Of
choice articles, 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. 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-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an 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, embr 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, 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, u premium Of cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth \ 5 will be given on the third best
~. so; on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 5 will be given on the second
best 3 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three do,ars-these how
rare 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 TO 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
rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what It'll in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his 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
articles classec and arranged in their respective
departments. III 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
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
| Thursday will be devoted to saes--Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or additions 10, 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 Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia.
18th. The Committee have the prospect OF
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ 'lstors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged in the laborious business o.
the fair.
, 18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CULTIvAToR, and to pro
cure as far us practicable their publication in thu