The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-03
SOUTH ERN CEN Il RAJ
AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION


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
Fair 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-
sirabe that all persons having articles Tor exhiDl-
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
ID. The Association has an ample iund, and Will,
in all cases. become responsible for the saie-keeping
oil 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.. Max 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 exhi
ioD, sha have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, flor sale-givlhg
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fled 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
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.
Attn There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhbtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time Ofinvcntion, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
okar orA pric
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation IL an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. II
Needlework or Painting, or any work OF Art, the
length of time bestowed on 1t, or the amount OF
labor; the age, if by children or 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 a 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, a 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
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 a Central
neutrality-suspicious. and anufacturersExc
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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
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 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, embra cing
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 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, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth S 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 dcpar!
ments cup worth : s will be given on the second
best 5 g SO; on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dollars--these, how
ever 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 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 70 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 VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10TH The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them therrcspective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles casse1 and arranged in their respective
departments Ill order to the perfection of this
| arrangement the committee appointed to publish
these regulations will here repeat, and enion
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 then
| reports to the annual meeting Wednesday
| Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen.
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time,
1lth. 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 or
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John BLups, Of Athens, Georgia.
/ 18th. The Committee have the prospect o.
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tC
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to Civ. 'istors the opportunity of the accommo
dations the good Hotels at those places while II
attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers