The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-24

day Of August next, which ~ inc uay Of me HILL
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGuLATIoHs.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening II IS therefore ae
srable that all persons having articles tor exhibit
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 fund, and Will
in all cases, become responsible forthe sae-keePing
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (thc owner taking check
for the same,) until the close of the Far, 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. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. EZzard, and James M Caihoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
iton, sha have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or legistry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then ciassi-
fed and arranged by departments, and IN SUCH order
as to facilitate the labors of the several committees
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 10 the
Secretary. For instance, If a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time Of invention and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcutivatioD II an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising, &c. 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 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 arti-
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 serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the inn
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 appropriation. 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 seryeral county
societies would make up amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society. es
9th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM ,nufacturcrsEx 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.
18th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in ano-
tce like this ali, the various articles to which pre-
miums will be granted. However comprehensive
VIC 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
somento an exclusion OF all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat il is intended TO give the action of
the Association the very widestseope embI acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, 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 In
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any Of tho departments, premium of cup
worth s 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth 5 will be given on the third best
81. so on the fourth all honor And on ally arti-
Giles Of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 3 2. SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from one 10 three dollars-these, how
ever,are general regulations and in particular case
| or cases Of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested to vary the rule.
h,! xuiI ho rod nd 4
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 70 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
sencc 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 call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees 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 NC ieCSl'eu anu arranged on frluuy ana SaL-
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
mttees 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 win be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
era 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 Atlante 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 Billups, Of Athens, Georgia.
18th. The COMMITTEES 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
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to CIV, iisitors the opportunity Of the accommo-
dauons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
18th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided