The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-02
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during the week embracing Wednesday, the ! 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
oribing 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 be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
nue open until Friday evening II is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles Tor 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.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and Will.
in all cases. become responsible for the saie-keeping
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers apd 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. Max A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis VIM. Ezzard, and James Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty 1t shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
tion shall have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residcnce--and price, if for sae--giving
| to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed and arranged by departments and IN such order
a. to facilitate the lab0rs Of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary Tor
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 a Machine, statement
lie opdu seS cnGt mi Of N
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 OF raising, &C. II
Needle or Painting, or any work of Art the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, ifby 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 a style fit at once for the
press
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and eDioined TO make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provements in farming, tage, draining and manu-
adopted The leading products ofther 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
Southern Agricultural and NJ .nufacturers Elk change
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 sae and not alone for exhibition for
| premium.
It'll. Premiums is impossible to name in no.
tce like this ali, the various articles to which pre-
miums will be granted. However comprehensive
we Nigh 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 mightbe 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 widest'scope, emDIa cine
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition 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, premium Of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S will be given on the third best
! & q so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth : S will be given on the second
best 9. SO on the third an honor on the fourth
| I'd honor On miner and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one to three dol,ars-these how
everare general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
tad .h.in
9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned part,
cuarly 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 whatits in name Southern
Central Agric 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-
pdrments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classeC 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 enjoir
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 once to the examination of art
cles, and thereby have ample time to make theil
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tnung the whole time.
llth Any alterations of, or additions to, tn,
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning of the Fair week
18th. The annua! Grafton will be made OF
Wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting
Immediately preceding the reports Of committees
, by Col John Billups, OF Athens, Georgia
T, 18th. The Committee have the prospect o
making arrangements with the Macon, State ant
, Georgia Railroads, to accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, tt
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur
to gi, 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo
dations ofthe good Hotels those places while il
attendance upon the Fair.
18th The citizens of Atlanta have nroyiJ ef