The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-17
UTHERN CEN T RIA
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.


The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII De
opened for visitors on Monday mornings and con
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhib-
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when oom-
mittee will be there ready to receive them
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and VIII,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepng
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
| for the same,) until the close OF the FAR which
| will be announced beforehand, IN ample time TO
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. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for eXh-
ion, sha have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residencc-and price, iffor sale-glvlhg
to the owner corresponding Garland then ciass-
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 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
| exhibition-,he statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of Invention, 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
nfcl
the pedigree 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 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 a premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Iegibie hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5ih. The delegations of the several county ocic-
ties requested and enioined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provcmcnts in farming, tlIage, 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 aud 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 amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
| actions of the Society.
9Th Ii is desirable to make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM MISUNDERSTANDING
| 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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
! II 10; ii
cc like this all the various articles to which pre-
miums will be granted. However comprehensive
VIC 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
somehto an exclusion fall 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 acing
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
| or exhibition, 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, a premium Of cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth IS will be given, on the third best
| So SO; on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth 4 S will be given on the second
best 9. SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doliars-these how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
9Th. a hail will be prepared and assigned parli-
culary to the Ladies for their garden products,
; fruits, flowers paintings, needle work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
| in ,anv dan rtp, ptc Tfs f1a 60,
= 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
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed ,whatit in name Southern
! Central Agrc ulhlral Association.
lOth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
! pfrments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
y Articles classe.. and arranged in their respective
departments. order to the perfection of thus
: arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
= these regulations, will here repeat, and noin
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-Frday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles The exhibition con-
tnuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations Of or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published Atlante early
i Monday morning of the Fair week
18th The annual Grafton will be made or
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
J, by Col. John Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia.
II 18Th The Committee have the prospect OF
/ making arrangements with the Macon, State and
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
J. Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
|, to Civ 'lstors the opportunity Of the accommo
da,ons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
r attendance upon the Fair.
!, 18th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
b and others engaged in the Iaborious business OF