The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-04
sOUTHERN GEN RAJ

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCAAIlON.
vTyHE Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing "Wednesday, the l4ti
day Of August next, which is the day Of the filth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty Of pres
cribing such general rules they may deem ne
cessary to aproper 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-
srabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them
Cd. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
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.
3D. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w
Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be TO
that all articles entering the fair grounds for cxhi
tion shall have first been onteredm the Secretary's
| book or Iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residcncc--and price, iffor sale--givng
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
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 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 to the
Secretary For instance, If u Machine, a 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 ofcultvation. 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, il by children very old persons
the 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-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
Illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in Iegibe hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the servera county Socie-
ties requested and enjoncd to make out upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tiIlage draining and manu-
ring, which have been or i'm 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 servcral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information TO be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society. N
9th. 1t is desirable TO make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and ManufacturersEx Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, OF 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 impossble 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
| someinto 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 wdest'scope, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or 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, premium of cup
worth III will be gwen; on the second best art-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
~. So on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
ces of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth s S will be given on the second
best 9. SO on the third honor on the fourth,
| I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars--thesc, how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
/ q m no tpp will hn
permitted indeed arc requested, to vary the rule.
| 9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
culary 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 10 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what it is in name, Southern
| Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he can 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 classed 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
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-Frday to gen
eral re-deivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
1lth. 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 Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports OF committees
by Col John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia.
/, 18Th. The Committee have the prospect OF
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
q Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon to
L. Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to CIV hsitors the opportunity of the accommo-
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