The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-14


the protection Of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need in the arrangement
and labelling Of articles. ma
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, statement.
of is powers and uses, cost time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. II 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. 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 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 legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press
5th. The delegations Of the several county Socie
ties are requested and enjoned 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 appropriation. time fplanting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the scrveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information to BIO sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ facturers Exchange
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. 1t is impossible to name in q no
tce like this all, the various articles 10 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-
miums for particular articles mightbe construed by
someintO an exclusion fall 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 business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, 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
plcments and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments a premium of a cup
worth = 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, the third best
81. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
|
ments cup worth will be given; on the second
best 9. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
| Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from to three dollars-these, how
ever general regulations, and in particular
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 in making
this institution indeed what il in name Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can 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 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 eDjoin
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 VISITS Of articles, ana the several COM
mlttees proceed at once to ttc examination of arti
cles, and thereby have amy,e tlma to make their
: reports to the annual meetir -. w ednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sa Is r. av to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The s',&t.'u con-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or all :;
. foregoing rules, will be published at
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annual Grafton will be ",
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary ny e,
Immediately preceding the reports Of committees,
by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
u 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. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ, 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
:, attendance upon the Fair
14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborous business Of
the fair.
18th The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CuLTIvAroR, and to pro-
cure far practicable their publication in the
weekly papers of this and the adjoining States.
By order of the Committee Of Arrangements.
DAVID w. LEWIS,
Sec'y Southern Central Agricultural Association.
Sparta, 25th June, 1850.
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