The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-20
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AGRICULTURAL AO0OCl ALTON

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
INHEp Fifth Annual Fair of The Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, will behel
during the week embracing Wednesday, the AL
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fftl
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
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
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will b.
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
unue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore dc.
slrable that all persons having articles for exhbi
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday OF
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 exh-
ion, shall have first been enteredin the Secretary S
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
10 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
exhibition-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, q 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 ofcutivation. If an Animal
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c. If
Needework 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 egible hand and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the several county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, 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 ofpreparation. 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. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SOuthernAgricultura andM Manufacturers Exchange
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
q premium.
7th. Premiums. is impossible to name in no.
tice like this all, the various articles 10 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-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widestsscope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary 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 a cup
worth III will be gwen; on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth IS will be given on the third best
W. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles OF the highest merit in the remaining depar!
ments cup worth \ S will be given on the second
best 2 50 on the third an honor; on the fourth,
| "a 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
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 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 ii is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
lOth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them Retrospective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec and arranged in their respective
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arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoir
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 wher
the President shall appoint his committees o,
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
cles, and thereby have ample time to make the
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-devery of articles The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, tn
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annual oration will be made o,
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 car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, I,
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
/, to Civ 'sltors the opportunity of the accommo