The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-19
SOUTHERN CEN RIA l.
ACuucuUTITRAL ASSOCIATION

day oil August next, WHICH ID uoy VI tic h-s'-
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
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
list The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana con
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t Is therefore de
slrable that all persons having articles Tor eShipi
ton, shall be the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has AN ample iund, ana Will
IN all cases. become responsible Tor the saie-keepng
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 far, when
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time TO
give them opportunity to recover ther goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
3D. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M Calhoun, are
| appointed committee whose duty 1T shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
iton, sha have first been eneredn the Secretary's
| book or regisry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale--giving
to the a 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
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
| exhbiton--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
maker If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
| time ofplanting, mode ofcutivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode of raising, sc. If
| Needle-work or Painting, or any work of Art, the
length of time bestowed 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 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-
i 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 enloined TO make out, upon
consultation, 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 preparation. time of planting aud mod
of cultivation, The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the several county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information to be sent out IN unpublished trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. IL is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and M, nufac turers Ex change
We request individuals who have 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.
It'll Premiums 1t is impossible to name in a no.
cc 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 widest'scope, embr acng
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
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
IN any OF the departments, a premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth will be given on the third best
= 3 SO on the fourth an honor. And all arti-
cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
{ ments cup worth SIS will be given; on the second
: best 9. So on the third honor; on the fourth
: I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
e premiums from one TO three do.ars-these how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
. or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
e 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
Il arpc a tn nttp Hbur p,ef.p
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
e cessary to proper management
9th. The facilities of getting 70 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
y sence and contributions of many of our fellow
u citizens of Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and Flo.
d rida We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it's in name, Southern
a Central Agric ultura Association.
10TH The President upon consultation with
7 such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
i, 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. III 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.
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 saes-Friday to gen
eral re-devery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
1lth. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
e 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 Anniversary meeting,
Immediately preceding the reports of committees,
, by Col. John Bilups, OF Athens, Georgia.
!, 18th The Committee have the prospect of
i making arrangements with the Macon, State and
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, TO
). Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
l. to Civ nstors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
r. attendance upon the Fair.
!, 14th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers.