The southern press., 1852-01-14
6OUTMERN CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

lTTNHE Fifth Annual r air 81 the southern Cent
i raj Agricultural Associations, will behel
day ofAugust next, which is the day Of the fftl
annual meeting ut Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pros
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne.
cessary to aproper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con-
t!nue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
siraDe that all persons having articles for exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mt'ee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safekecpng
ol articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
cihcers 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 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 soc
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
| ition, shall have first been eneredn the Secretarys
book or Iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then classi-
fed and arranged by departments and in such order
to facilitate the abors of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepersnand clerks, as shall be necessary for
the protectf6n 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 aud accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
| To- .fo otarx
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 ofplanting, mode ofcultivation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c If
Needle-work or Painting, any work Of Art, the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, if by children 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 lcgible hand and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the seryeral county Socie-
ties are requested and enioined to make out upon
! consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
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 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
SouthernAgricutura andM 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 salc and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
| 7th. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in no
tice 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 ofall articles unannounced,
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe that 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 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 lO will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given, the third best
81 SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar!
mens cup worth & 5 will be given on the second
best g. SO on the third an honor; on the fourth,
Cd honor On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars-these, how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
nj Of in mpr fha p,if ffon kn
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, 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 to 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 tits in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural 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 classe6 and arranged in their respective
departments. lii 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
mttees proceed at once to the examination OF arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Frday to gen
eral re-deliyery 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 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 oil
> making arrangements with the Macon, State and
I Georgia Railroads, to run 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-
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