The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-09
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AGRICULTURAL A000C1ATfON.

| AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TIME Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Gent,
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the I4th
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 apropcr 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
tnue open until Friday evening II Is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
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 ample fund, and will
in all cases. become responsible for the safekeeping
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.. Mark 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 cxh
ion, shall first been enieredin the Secretary's
book or iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, ffor sale-giving
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, 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
H. l.I.., Al
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofnvcntion, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lf Horticultural or Agricultural Products
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultvaton. If an Animal
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, sc. IL
Neede-wOrk or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, 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 premium W ill 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 cnJoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
provements in farming, tilIage draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of be Ing
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes Of preparation. time of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures Of prescr-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from The servcral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthcrnAgrcultura andM anufactlrersEx change
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for salc-s
rs choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
| a 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 thec Ore 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, that il is intended to give the action of
the Association tho very wdcst'scope, embracing
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 In
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth IS will be given on the third best
~. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
| Giles OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth s 5 will be given on the second
best 2. so on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars-thcsc, how
1T.
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, ncedle-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-
| scnce 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 what is in name, Southern
| Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| pdrlments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
| articles classeG and arranged in their respective
departments. IN order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and cnjoin
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 once to the examination of art-
| 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.
llth. Amy alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
| wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Biups, OF Athens, Georgia
18th. The Committee have the prospect of
L. L.