The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-03
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A CQuCITJyTUHAL ASSOCl ALTON

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THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, viii behelt
during the week embracing Wednesday, the All
day Of August next, which is the day Of the ffti
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following aa
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
| tnue open until Friday evening IL Is therefore DE-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor exhibi'
| ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday OF
Saturday. the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittec will be there ready to receive them.
| I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and Will
n all cases. become responsible for the safe-kecpDg
OF articles which may be placed in the hands of its
officers and committees, (thc 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. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
iton, shall have first been eneredin the Secretary s
book or legistry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--glving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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 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 Tor
| 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. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultivation. If an Animal
the pedigree stock, age mode OF raising, &c. If
Needle work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length Of time bestowed on il, or the amount Of
labor; the age if by children or 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 will take notice.
that premium will not be awarded TO any art-
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.
9Th. The delegations of the servera county Socie-
ties are requested and enjOned TO make out, upon
consultation, a 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 ofpreparation. time fplanling and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the scrvera county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
10 IecIc htn IN 10 tI,oE ,ir r.
neutrality-suspicious. and ManufacturersExcha
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
premium.
7th Premiums 1t is impossible to name in a no
tice 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 IN It, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofaI 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, cmbr acing
every thing that is ingenious or 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 I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, a premium Of cup
worth III will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S will be given, on the third best
50. SO I; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best q SO; on the third an honor on the fourth,
I'd honor On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three doIlars-thcse, 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 a hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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 usto 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 It's in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them theirrespective 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. Ill order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here 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
mtees proceed at once 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 sales--Friday to gen
eral re-delivery 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 be made on
Wednesday, the day Of the Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Bilups, 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, tc
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
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