The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-30
sOUTHERN GENITAL

| SO u II RI Y N ~ u T. N a IN IL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TINE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
raj Agricultural Association, will beheid
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l ti'
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 DC
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening It Is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhiDi-
ton, 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
3D.. The Association has an 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 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. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM Ezzard, and James NJ calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds ior cxh
ition sha have first been enteredln the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-givlhg
to the owner corresponding Garland then ciassi-
fled 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
| exhibtion--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time OF invention, 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 ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree 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 &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 Iegiblc hand and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the several county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoned to make out, upon
consultation, q report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the i'm
provcments 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 of preparation. time 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 in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and MISUNDERSTANDING
| We request individuals who have surplus of
| choice articles, OF 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.
It'll. Premiums is impossible to name in a no.
cc 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 therefo the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion Ofall articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action Of
the Association the very wdest'scope, embI acine
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, on all articles of the hi Nest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plements and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cur
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles a cup worth S will be given on the third best
81 50; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth u will be given; on the second
best 5 2. so; on the third an honor on the fourth
(lv ,v~l 1lo l.oln
premiums. from one to three dolars-these, how.
everare general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned part
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 centra
point induce us'to invite, and to expect the pre-
i 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 ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation will
such members he can call to his aid shall appon
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of tn,
articles classe2 and arranged in their RESPECTIVE,
departments. order to the perfection of thu
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enjoir
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 wher
the President shall appoint his committees OF
Monday morning, the committee Of reception may
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
mttees proceed at once to the examination Of arti
cles, and thereby have ample time to make thei
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-devery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or additions TO, tn
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta earl.
Monday morning of the Fair week.
10Th. The annual Grafton will be made Oh
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports of committees
by Col. John Biups, OF Athens, Georgia.
F., 18th. The Committee have the prospect O
making arrangements with the Macon, State am,
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation car
early every morning and late in the afternoon, L
| Griffin, Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur