The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-23
SOL THERN CENTRA
AnpI ruyUTIJRAI ASSOCIATION.

TIME Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l1tl'
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 proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following ate
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings wall be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. II Is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor exhoi
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.
I'd. The Association has an ample iund, ana Will
in all cases. become responsible for the saie-keePing
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF its
officers 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, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
3d. 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 Tor exhl-
ition, sha have first been enercdIn the Secretarys
book or regstry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sae-giying
to the owner a corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abors Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers 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
of is powers and uses cost time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lf horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultiyation If an Animal,
the pedigree 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 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 the Society,
visitors patrons and members, all will take notice,
that a premium will not be awarded TO any arti-
cle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legible hand, and in style fit at for the
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| 9Th The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoincd TO make out, upon
consultation, a report Of the present condition Of
! Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
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 OF preparations. 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
| neutrality-suspicious. and observation-disclosures
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 for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium
7th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in a no
tice like this ali, the various articles TO which pre-
mi,n,s 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 might be construed by
I somcinto exclusion ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action OF
I the Association the very wdest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful In business
art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited TO come. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
ia, that, on all articles of the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plemcnis, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any Of the departments, premium of q cup
worth ) 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given, on the third best
50. so; 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,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dolIars--these, how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed 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 10 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 us in making
this institution indeed what il is 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. IL order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
ueSe regulations, VIII mere repeat, and enJoln
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, 1.-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 be devoted to Friday to gen
eral re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations Of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
10Th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia.
i 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
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