The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-03
roUTHYRr CMNTnAL
A ErrY11,T5TW AgSOCI ATiOT

day of August next, which is the day OF the hitf
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
criblng such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to aproper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
! LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
ID. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the saie-keepng
oil 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 TO recover their goods and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
Sd. 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 shall have first been eneredn the Secretary S
book or regstry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-givihg
to the owner a corresponding Garland then CLASH
ned and arranged by departments and IN such order
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, aud
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
! eXhbtion---lhe statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, if Machine, statement
of is powers and uses cost time of invention, 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 ofcultivation. IL an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age mode of raising, SC. IL
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 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 requested and enjoncd to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
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 OF preparation. time 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 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 nufacturers 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.
It'll. Premiums. is impossible to name in a no.
tice like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
mums 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-
mums 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, 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 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, premium Of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best art-
ces cup worth will be given on the third best
So SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth ! will be given on the second
best 3 so; on the third an honor; on the fourth,
ID honor On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from to three dollars-these how
ever,are general regulations, and in particular case
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule
sth hall will be prepared and assigned part-
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
rlda. 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 call 10 his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrlments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classe6 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 enjoin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received and arranged on Friday and Sat
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 will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral redelivery 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 annua! 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, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to Civ fstors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations 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,
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