The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-10

! AGRICULTURAL ASSOCtATlON.
T,HE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday the l1ti,
day Of August next, which is the dayot the hlib
annual meeting ut Atlanta Georgia
| The Committee charged with The duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
| cessary 10 apropcr management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. II is therefore de-
sIrabe that all persons having articles Tor exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
in all cases become responsible for the safckcepng
OF 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
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 for exhi
ition, sha have first been eneredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, flor sale-giving
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 for
| fha CfCas To- n atI cnI IN thn
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, sc. If
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 sc. 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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, wh;Aever 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 seryeral county Socie
ties requested and cnjoined to make out, upon
consultation, q report of the present condition Of
|
provemcnts in farming tilIage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
| adopted The leading products of their ccuntees
the modes appropriation. time of planting and mod
OF cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility oflands. 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
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 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, Sc---to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
| It'll. Premiums 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 ofall articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action OF
the Association the very wdest'scope, embr acing
every thing that is ingenious useful In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sal
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
PIGMENTS, 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 y 5 will be given the third best
= so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
( ments cup worth SIS will be given on the second
best g SO; on the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
e premiums from one TO three dollars-these, how
everare 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, 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 TO 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 ,whatitis in name, Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
lOth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he 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 classeG and arranged in their respective
departments. III order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoip
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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
i 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 annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day of the Anniv ersary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John Bjllups, 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
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