The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-13
OUTHERN CEN I RIA l.
ASSOCIATION.


annual meeting al Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribiog such general rules they may deem ne
cessary TO proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
srabe that all persons having articles Tor exhibi-
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.
I'd The Association has ample fund, and Will,
IN all cases, become responsible for the safe-keepng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the samc) 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 OF
articles unprotected after the adjournment of the
Association.
Sd. MAJ A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
| Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds or eXh-
iion, sha have first been enteredin the Seciearys
book or Iegistry-tlen labelled with the owners
name and residence--and price, iffor sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
fled 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, and
such clerks as they may need in The arrangement
and labelling of articles
| Attn 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 a Machine, 4 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 ofcutivation 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 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 tue 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 aud explanatory statements, made out
in Iegbe hand, and in style fit at once for the
pressA
5th. The delegations Of the several county Socie-
! ties are requested and enomed to make out. upon
consultation, a report of the present condition OF
| Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
| proyements in farming, illage draining and manu-
ring, which have been 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 scrveral 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 a Central
| neutrality-suspicious. and MISUNDERSTANDING
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines stock, &c---to carry
| fbnra fprr al, e.,
a premium.
It'll. Premiums.-lt is impossible to name in a no.
ce like this all, the various articles to which pre-
NUNS 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 of all articles unannounced,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widesl'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 OF inventions
in any of the departments, premium of a cup
worth 5 10 will be given on the second best arti-
So. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth Us will be given on the second
best 3. so on the third honor; on The fourth,
Cd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from to three dol,ars-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 parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needlc-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 usto invite, and to expect the pre-
sence and contributions of many of our fellow
citizens of Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Flo
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what il is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he can call TO his aid shall appoint
committees aud assign to them their espectiye de-
pdrments and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists Of The
articles classcc and arranged in their respective
departments. order to the perfection of this
arrangement, The committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and en- DIN
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, that when
the President shall appoint his committees on
Monday morning, the committee Of reception na y
have their lists Of articles, and the several com
miees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales Friday to gen
rral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tnung the whole time
1lth. 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 'isltors the opportunity of the accommo-
da,ions ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
, attendance upon the Fair
I4th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
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