The southern press., 1852-01-05
sOUTHERN CEN RAL
A3RICITTTuR RAL A06OClATION.

THE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tf
day of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting ut Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with ahe 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 REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
tnue open until Friday evening. il is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for exhibi
tlon, 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.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IA cases. become responsible for the safekeepng
ol articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
ofllcers and committees, the owner taking check
Tor 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 good, or
articles unprotected after the adjournment Of the
Association.
Sd. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty ii shall be to
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
iton, shall have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or legistry--then labelled with the owners
name and resldence--and price, iifor sae-giving
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.
4th. There will positively be required, in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibitiolI--lhe statement to be delivered to the
SecretarysFO instance, if a Machine, statement
Of is powers and uses, cost, time Of inyention 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 ofcultvaton. If 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 or very old persons
tie value uses, Sc Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information may be
worth publishing in the transactions of the Society,
visitors, patrons and members all will take notice,
that premium i'll 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 seryeraI county Socie
ties are requested and enjoned to make out. upon
consultation, q 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 be ing
adopted The leading products of their crnntiees
the modes OF preparation. time OF planting and mod
of cultivation. The means and measures Of prescr-
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 the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
s;outhernAgricultura and NJ snufacturcrsEx 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
premium.
7th Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no
tce like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
mi,ms 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-
mms for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scopc, embracing
svery 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 I'm
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
| in any OF the departments, a premium of cup
worth lU will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth \ 5 will be given, on the third best
81. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best 8 3. so ; on the third honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dol.ars--these how
| al in,
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| 9Th A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
! cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, neede-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 usto invite, and to expect the pre-
scnce 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 is in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| pdTtments 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
diAdhbcheHt, the coHlInlttce appointed 10 pnDhSn
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
mitees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
| cles, and thereby have ample time 10 make their
reports 10 the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday 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
12tk. The annua! oration 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
Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
! to Civ 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.