The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-31
ERIN CEN T RAJ
A a HUH TVTRAU a N9O(.I ALTON,

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0vHE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
| raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
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 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 wiil DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, ana con
tinue open until Friday evening II Is therefore &c
sirabe that all persons having articles eAhipi
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 an ample fund, and Will.
in all cases. become responsible for the saie-keePng
oil articles which may be placed IN the nands OF l,s
officers and committees, (thc owner taxing check
for the same) until the close OF the Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time 70
give them opportunity TO recover their goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
Association.
Sd. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty It shall DC TO see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
iton sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or Iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, II Tor saic-BlVihg
to the owner corresponding Garland then classl-
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, ana
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
th1a fot to ho Cnft aroA tn ha
Secretary. For instance ir Machine, 4 statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. If 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 ofraising, Sc 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 sc. 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.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
provements in farming tllage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted, The leading products Of their countless
the modes OF preparation. 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 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 and M.nufacturersE Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
choice Seeds machines, stock &c---to carry
them there Tor salc and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
It'll. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in mo-
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 init, and yet richly deserving
premiums lest therefore the announcement Of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
somento an exclusion ofal 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, embr 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
| 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 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S will be given, on the third best
-. so; on the fourth an honor. Aud on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
| ments cup worth S will be given ION the second
best 5 9. so on the third am honor on the fourth,
| Cd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three dollars--these how
1 L.
| or cases OF peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9th. 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 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 is in name Southern
Central Agric ultura 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 classeG 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 enioin
| 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 to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
| reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday,
Thursday vii! be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tnuing the whole time
llth. Any alterations of, or additions To-, the
foregoing rules, will be published at AtIanta 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 Bilups, of Athens, Georgia.
18th. The COMMITTEES 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, Stone Mountain and Decatur,
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