The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-01

| ) AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TvHE FiAh Ann,al Fair Of the Southern Cont,
/ raj Agricultural Associations, will beheld
during the week embracing "Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next, which is the day OF the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
| The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management Of the approaching
Far, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
srabie that all persons having articles Tor exhbi-
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 will,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keeping
OF articles which may be placed IN the hands OF Its
officers 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.. 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 for exhi
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or legistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--givihg
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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, 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
tho oto Aots tr thn
Secretary. For instance, If Machine, statement
of powers and uses, cost time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode appropriation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, SIC. 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
the 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 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 several county Soce-
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, tilage, 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 fpanting 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
c. Ali Ia a
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
US choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sac and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in a 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 on 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 wdest'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious 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, on all articles of the highest merit in the
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
| in any of the departments, a premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best art-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
| 80. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth s. will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from one TO three dolars-these, how
ver,are general regulations. and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule.
Sth' hall Will be prepared and assigned parti-
| culary to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needIe-work, &c. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments Of the fair is absolutely ne
ccssary 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 tits in name a Southern
! Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
ptrtments, and to these committees SO appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles classe1 and arranged in their respective
departments. i'll order to the perfection of Thu.
: arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
'iCoC TcSudloilS, VIII ileIc TCpcdl, anu ellJOU
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, that wher
the President shall appoint his committees OF
Monday morning, the committee Of reception ma,
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 thei
= reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
: Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-devery of articles. The exhibition con
= tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, additions TO, tn
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta earl
l. Monday morning of the Fair week
18th The annual Grafton will be made o.
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
g, by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
s, 18th. The Committee have the prospect O
i making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
IN Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, t
g Griffin. Marielln Stone Maintain and DECATUR