The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-08
ERIN CENT RAIL
A DuCrrITf1RAI ASSOCIATION

TIME Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent,
| raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing "Wednesday, the lath
day of August next, which is the day OF the nth
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 will 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 exhibl-
tion shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them. =,
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and 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 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 oil the
Association.
3D. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James NJ Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty 1t shaii De 10 see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
ition sha have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book or Iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, If for sale--givlng
|
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.
Attn There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibtion--lhe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinventon, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of pre- paration of land and SOIL manure and
time of planting, mode ofcuItivation. 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 1t, or the amount OF
labor; the age, il 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 will take notice,
that premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Iegibc hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and cnjoined to make out upon
consultation, a report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several countless of the i'm
provcments 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 ofpreparaton. 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 servcral county
societies would make up 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 M,nufacturersEx Exchange
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
premium
It'll. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in 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
| omeinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that 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 them 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, premium of cup
worth y 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, on the third best
50. so on the fourth an honor. And all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth IS 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 dollars-these, how
general regulations, and in particular case
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
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 usHo 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 what il is in name Southern
Central Agric ultura Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid, shall appon,
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 tins
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
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 wher
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
cles, and thereby have ample time to make thel
; reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-delvery of articles The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, thu
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
= Monday morning of the Fair week
l2lh. The annua! Grafton will be made oil
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
i, by Col. John Bilups, of Athens, Georgia.
III 18Th. The Committee have the prospect o
making arrangements with the Macon State ant
n Georgia Railroads, to accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, t,
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