The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-11
UTHERN CENTRAL
AS1OClATION.

day OF August next, which Is the day Oh the NJ
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 VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhibi-
ton, shall be the ground as early as FRIDAY OF
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mttee will be there ready to receive them.
3D. The Association has an ample fund, and viii,
IN all cases, become responsible Tor the sae-keePng
oil articles which may be placed IN the hands oil 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 OF
articles unprotected after the adjournment oil the
Association
3D. Marx A. Cooper Richard Peters, David W.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M Caihouh, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exh-
ition, sha have frs been eneredn the Secretarys
book or legistry-then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, Tor saie-Slvlhg
to the owner corresponding card--and then classi-
fed and arranged by departments, and IN such order
as to facilitate the abors of the several committees
doorkecpers 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, a minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
eXhibition--ibe statement to be delivered TO the
Secretary. For instance, if a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses cost time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. lf 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 &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, sc. Since this 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 viii not be awarded TO any art-
Gle, whatever its merit, unless accompanied by
illustrative and explanatory statements. made out
in egible hand, sud in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations Of the several county Ssocie-
ties are requested and euloned 10 make out, upon
consuaiou a report of the present condition Of
Agriculture III their several counties, Of the i'm,
provemenis in farming, tiIlage, draining aud manu-
ring, which bave been or are in progress OF being
adopted The leading products Of their ccuntiees
the modes ofPrcparation. time of planting and med
Of cultivation. The means and measures Of preser-
wing aud increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the seryeral county
societies would make up an amount Of valuable
information 10 be sent out III the published trans
actions of the Society,"
9Th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. andM MISUNDERSTANDING
We request individuals who have n surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th Premiums IL is impossible to name in a no
tce like this all the various articles to which pre-
mi,lms 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 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, embl acing
every thing that is ingenious useful 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 s 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth \ S will be given, on the third best
2. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given; on the second
best 2. SO on the third an honor on The fourth,
I'd honor On miner apd miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars--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 hail 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 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 is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultural Association
| lUth. The President upon consultation with
such members he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
Pefrments, and to these committees so 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 enjoin
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may be received aud arranged on Friday'an 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
mlttees proceed at the examination of arti-
ctes, and thereby have ample time to make their
| reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday vii! be devoted to sales Friday to gen
rral re-delivery of articles. The exhibition con
tinuing the whole time.
! llth. Any alterations Of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atlante 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 Blups, OF Athens, Georgia.
18Th The Committee have the prospect o
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 'isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
l4h. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers
and others engaged in the aborious business OF