The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-26

THE Fifth Annual Fair of tho Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during tho week embracing Wednesday, the atf'
day of August ncxt, which is the day Of the filth
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 tho following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will DO
opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be 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 an 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, (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 10 recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
3D.. Mark A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
ion, shall have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, flor sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
facilitate the abors 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
avh afafa MT IN ha do In no
Secretary. For instance, IL Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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 ofcutivation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. If
Neede-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
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 arti-
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 scryeral county Socie-
ties arc requested and enjoincd to make out. upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
provcmcnts in farming, tilage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes ofprcparaton. time Of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means aud measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from tho servoral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information 10 be sent out IN the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. IL Is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgriCutural and MsnufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who have a 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
a premium.
7th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to namc in no.
tce like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
miums 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 fall articles unannouncod
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that il is intended to give the action of
the Association tho very widest'scope embI acing
every thing that is ingenious useful In business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
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 q cup
worth 10 will be given on the%econd best arti-
ces cup worth S will be given, on the third best
@ so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth : S will be given on the second
best 2. so the third an honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dol.ars-these how
ever, general regulations, and in particular case
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, 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. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what tits in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he callto his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees 80 appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles classed and arranged in their respective
departments. id order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjon
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
mttees proceed at to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
'b,lr Sfav xayfn ho1 ataIt
eral 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 Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week.
18th. The annual 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
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta Slime Mountair a,d Dacatur