The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-16
SOUTHERN CENTRAL
GRuCnITTTRAL A6SOCl ALTON

! AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
| / raj Agricultural Association, will beheid
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 18th
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fifth
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 A)Dnday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
srablc that all persons having articles for exhIbi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when CON-
mittec will be there ready to receive them
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and Will,
in all cases become responsible for the saie-keepDg
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, 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 1t shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
ition sha have first been cncredn The Secretarys
book or legstry--then labelled with the owners
to the owner corresponding card-and then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as to facilitate the abOrs Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such ponce 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
exhibition--ihe statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinyenton, 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 ofcultvation, If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. IL
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, &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.
5tl. The delegations Of the several county Socic-
ties are requested and enloned to make out upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several countless 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 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 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
SouthernAgricultura andM 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.
7th Premiums. 1t is impossible toname in a no
tce 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 1t, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion all articles unannounccd,
the Committee requests the people generally to
| observe, hat it is intended to give tic action of
the Association the very widest'scope, embI acng
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
s, 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 a cup
worth III will be gwen; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth rs will be given on the third best
2. SO on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining dcpar.
| ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 9. SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three doars-these, how
ever, are general regulations and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
Sth. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products
fruits, flowers paintings, needlc-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 what in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members 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. 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 or
Monday morning, the committee PERCEPTION may
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
mttees proceed at once to the examination of art
cles, and thereby have ample time to make theil
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday
Thursday will he devoted to sales--Frday to- gen
eral redelivery Of articles. The exhibition con
| tinuing the whole time.
llth. Any alterations of, or additions to, tn,
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports Of committees
by Col. John Billups, Of Athens, Georgia