The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-13
TuERN GEN TlhA La.
AS0OCtATiON.

raj Agricultural Association, will behed
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 1ft'
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 aproper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENEHAL REGULATIONS
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening IS therefore as-
srable that all persons having articles ior exhio
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
| 3D. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible Tor the saic-kecpng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands Of It's
CQcers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the samc,) 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. MAX A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty II shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhl
iton, sha have first been enteredn the Secretary
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, flor sale---givihg
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
doorkcepers 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, If Machine, statement
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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 ofcultivation If 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 very old persons
tie value, uses, SC. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information 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 legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
| press.
| 5th The delegations of the several county Soce-
ties requested and enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provemens 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 preparation. 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
Southern Agricultural and Msnufacturers Exchange
| We request individuals who have a surplus of
oh rtinlp uhr thc,,,f ID
us choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sae and not alone for exhibition for
| premium
7th. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in a no
tice like this ali, 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 ther elOre 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, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or useful 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 cup
worth ! 10 will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S 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 5 9. 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 case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
a oil will ho o1
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
rda. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, whattis in name, Southern
Central Agric 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-
ptrments, 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 enjoin
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
mttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
cles, 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-delvery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
llh. Any 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 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 accommodation cars
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