The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-19

THE Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
| / raj Agricultural Association, 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 rsf1
| The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following e
GENERAL RrGULATIoHs.
list The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
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. a
I'd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN oil 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. .5ra e-lsaa.-
3D.. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. EzZard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxhi-
iton, shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, If for sae--givlng
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed 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.
4th There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
he at ate tn he
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinyention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation. IL an Animal,
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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the servcra county Socie-
ties are requested and enloncd to make out, upon
consultation report of the present condition of
provcments in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted. The leading products of their countless
the modes Appropriation. time planting aud mod
of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the servcral 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
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Observation-Disclosures
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
q premium.
| It'll. Premiums. is impossible to name in no.
tce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
| NUNS 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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somentO an 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 widest'scope, embracing
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-
Giles cup worth rs will be given, on the third best
81 so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given; on the second
best g. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dollars--theso, how
ever,are 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-
culary 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 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 it is in name Southern
| Central Agric ultural Association.
| 10Th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he 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 classeG 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 enjoin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
urduy 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
mlttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saIes-Friday to'gen-
eral re-delivery 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. ~
10Th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
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 OF
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars