The southern press., 1852-01-03
SOU THERN CENT RA l.
AG n RlHpNTu1TURALA A00OC1ATlON.

The Committee charged with the duty of pres
eribiDg such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 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-
unue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibi-
ton, shall be the ground as 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 fund, and will,
in all cases, become responsible for the safe-kcepiDg
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, WIN. EZzard, and James M. Calhoun are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-gving
to the corresponding Garland then classi-
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
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, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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 ofcutiyation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &C. If
Neede-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, &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 prepiu ium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the servcraI county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined TO make out upon
consultation, a report Of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several countless of the i'm
provements in farming, tulage, draining and manu-
ring which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their cnuntiees
the modes Appropriation. 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 serveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9Th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ Exchange
We request individuals who have 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
premium
7th. Premiums. 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 fall articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action of
| the Association the very widest'scope, embr racing
every thing that is ingenious or useful In business
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 s 10 will be given on the second best art-
ces cup worth will be given, on the third best
|
cles of'the highest merit in the remaining depar!
ments cup worth s 5 will be given on the second
best @ so; on the third an honor; on the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars-these, how
everare general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed 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 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 ii is in name Southern
Central Agrc 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-
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 enjon
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 thai when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee of reception may
have their lists OF articles, and the several com
mttees proceed at once to the examination of art
cles, and thereby have ample time to make theil
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday
Thursday will! be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-deiyrry of articles The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations Of or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
mil bo oLo
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia
/, 18th. The Committee have the prospect o
/, making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
Georgia Railroads. to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tt
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
I. to Civ 'sitors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels ut those places while il
attendance upon the Fair.
;, l4th The citizehs Of Atlanta have provided
. comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged in the laborious business o
b the fair.
18TH The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CUITiyhToR and to prO