The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-12
OUTH.EkN CEN RAIL
AGRICULTURAL AO0OCIATfON.

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 1882
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tlnue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhb-
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them
Cd. The Association has an ample fund.- and will.
in all cases become responsible for the safekeeping
oil 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-
ion shat have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or legistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-glving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks 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, Statement
of is powers and uses COST time of invention, and
my other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
maker. IL 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, any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount Of
labor; the age, il by children or very old persons
tie value, uses &c. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information may be
worth publishing in the transactions Of tie 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 enjoined TO make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tiiage, 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 of planting and mod
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the servcral 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
neutrality-suspicious. and M ,nufacturersE 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 Tor sale and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
7h. Premiums 1t is impossible to name in no
ce like this all the various articles to 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 init, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mums 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 widesl'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious 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, all articles Of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
| plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
! in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
80. so; on the fourth an honor. And on all art
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depur.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 9. so on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and misce llaneous articles,
premiums from one to three doars-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.
8th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
| fr,ytfc Nnvryn nftv Jio
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 us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
| sence and contributions of many Of our fellow
citizens Of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rida. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed ,whatiti in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th. The President upon q consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
ptrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classc2 and arranged in their respective
i departments. Ill order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will hare 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 once to the examination of arti-
cies, and thereby have ample time to make their
; reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
era re-delvery Of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
12th. 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 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, 10
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ hsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations the good Hotels at those places while in
, attendance upon the Fair.
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided