The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-28
SOUTHERN CEN TRIAL
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Fair, have adopted the following
| MA W. GENERAL REGULATIONS.
| LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
| opened for visitors Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhiD-
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
3D. The Association has all ample fund, and will.
in all cases, become responsible for the saie-keePng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
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 to 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 exhi
ition, sha have first been enteredln the Secretarys
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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 Tor
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. a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il 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 ofplanting, mode ofcultivation, II an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode OF raising, &c. Ii
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-
cle whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made out
in legble hand, and in style fit at once for the
press. 81 uUusr, .l
5th The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
Ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a 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 ofpreparaton. time ofplanting and mod
Of cultivation The means and measures of reser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral county
information to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society. .r..i} a.fl
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
Southern Agricultural and NJ snufacturersExch
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. s1H .'t"
4 7th Premiums. 1T is impossible to name ina no
tce like this all, the various articles 10 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 unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
| the Association the very widest'scope embracing
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
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is, that, on 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 III will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
8 2. so; on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
best 2. SO ; on the third an honor on the fourth,
| ID honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three doars--these how
ever,ar 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 part-
| cularly to the Ladies Tor 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 U
9th. The facilities Of getting TO this central
point induce usto 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 it in name Southern
Central Agric ultura Association.
lOth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of the
articles classe1 and arranged in their respective
departments. in 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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
| reports to the annual meeting. Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tnuing the whole time.
| 18th. Any alterations of or additions TO- the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atant, early
Monday morning Of the Fair week
| 18th. The annua! Grafton will be made on
Wednesday, the day 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-
datons ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
| l4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business OF
| the fair.
18th. The Secretary is directed to publish
these regulations in the CuLrvAroR, and TO pro-
cure as far as practicable their publication in the
| weekly Of this nd tho al Sfofea