The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-26
sOUTHERN CENTRAL

day oil August next, winch IS the DAY OF the nitn
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia :
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribiDg such general rules ss they may deem ne
cessary to proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GEHKRAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening. y is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi-
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.
Sd. 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-
iton, sha have first been enteredin the Secretary
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor 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
exhbition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, COST time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lie Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode of raising, &c. Ii
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 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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in egible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoned to make out, upon
consulation a report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements 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 of preparation. time fplanting 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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and MISUNDERSTANDING
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.-lt is impossible to name in no
ce 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-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somento 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, embrac
every thing that is ingenious or 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, on 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 q cup
worth y 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 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 depart
ments cup worth ! S will be given on the second
best 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,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule.
hall mill No "A:
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 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 Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classed and arranged in their respective
| departments. i'll 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 De TecelVeu ana arranged on Ffluay ana 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 arti
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen.
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con.
tnung 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.
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made or
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
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Maett Stone Mountain, and Decatur
, to Civ fsitOrs the opportunity of the accommo
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
!, attendance upon the Fair.
1. l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers