The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-19
OUTHERN CEN TRIAL
AERlf.ITV TsQtn Az AHSOGsl ALTON.

i raj Agricultural ASSOCIATION, WILL Dchou
during the week embracing Wednesday, the Jap
day of August next, which is the day Of the NTH
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
crbng 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 VIII ne
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana con
tnue open until Friday evening II Is therefore ae-
srable that all persons having articles Tor exhib-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as r riday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mitce will be there ready TO receive them
I'd. The Association has AN ample luna, ana Will
in all cases. become responsible for the saie-kcePg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF MS
officers and committees, (the owner taxing check
for the same, } until the close Of the Far, which
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time 10
give them opportunity to recover Their goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods Oh
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
3D. MAX A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w
Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James M. calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty Ut SHAH DC To see
that all articles entering the fair grounds ioi cxhi
tion sho 'lhave first been cntercdn the Secretary
book or iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and rcsidence--and price, for salc--gi'ing
to the owner corresponding card--and then ciassi
fed and arranged by departments, and IN such ordcf
as to facilitate the abors of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such ponce anu
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary ior
the projection Of the grounds aud buildings, and
such clerks as they may need III 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 ior
cxhibition--ihc statement TO be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinyention, 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 ofcultvaton. IL all Animal,
the pedigree stock age, mode OF raising, SC. II
Needle-work or Painting, or amy 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 servcral county Socie
ties requested and enjoined to make out upon
consultation a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyemcnts 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 planting and mod
Of cultiyation. 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 and NJ ,nufacturers 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.
18th. Premiums.--lt is impossble to name in no
tice 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-
miun9 for particular articles might be construed by
someinto 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 embr acing
| 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 cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
ces cup worth 5 will be given, on the third best
2 SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
| Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
mens cup worth S will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor on the fourth
ID honor On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dolIars-these, how
ever 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, hoWers 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 70 this central
point induce us4to 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 tits in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
nth. The President upon a consultation with
such members he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees aid assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. order to the perfection Of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enion
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
mitees proceed at once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will he devoted to sales--Friday to gem
eral re-deivery of articles. The exhibition con-
| tnung the whole time.
| 18th. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
l2tt. The annual 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 COMMITTEES have the prospect of
| making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Cieorga Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, TO
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ Visitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dntions ofthe rood Hotels nj those nlaces vhie in