The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-05
ERIN CEN RAJ
uYEuTTtTXAf ASSOCIATIONS.

| ne committee ChdfBtu Win liiO uu'J "a r.
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management OF the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATORS
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings wan DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana con
tinue open until Friday evening II Is therefore ae'
sirabe that all persons having ARTICLES LOT eAhlDi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as friaay OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com-
mittee will be there ready TO receive mem. =,
ID The Association has an ample iundy and Will
in all cases become responsible for the sale-keePihg
OF articles which may be placed IN the nahus OF It's
officers and committees, (the owner taxing cneck
for the same,) until the close oil 'le rair, wIloh
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time 10
give them opportunity TO recover their goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment oil the
Association
3D. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. EZzard, and James M Calhouii, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
iton, shall have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, II Tor saie-SlVihs
to the owner corresponding Garland tien ciassi-
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 poiice ana
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary Tor
the protection of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks as they may need III the arrangement
and labelling of articles.
4lh. There will positively be required, IN all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--he statement TO be delivered 10 the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, 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 OF cultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock age, mode of raising, sc. 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 as may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,
visitors, patrons and members all win take notice,
that premium viii not be awarded to any ari-
Gle, whatever It's merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the several county Socie-
tics are requested and enloined to make out upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture III their several countless of the inn
proyements 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. IL is desirable TO make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM. 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
premium.
It'll Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in ano-
tce 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 II, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest theI eloIe the announcement Of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed BY
someinto an exclusion ola 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 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, all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plemcnts, and valuable improvements or inventions
IN any OF the departments, premium of a cup
worth \ III will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 4 will be given on the third best
50. 50 on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth S will be given on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
Cd honor. On miner and misce lancous articles,
premiums from one to, three dol,ars--these how
ever,a 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
nnpn fInup .(tl.
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 20 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 ,whaitis in name, Southern
Central Agric utural 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-
petrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec and arranged in their respective
departments lii order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will hire 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 icSiueut SHdi appoint MS committees on
Monday morning, the committee of reception may
have their lists of articles, and the several COM
mittees 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 Ice devoted to saes--Friday to gen
eral re-deivery 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.
18th The annual Grafton will he 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, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to CIV hsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
detions ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair
l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,