The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-01
ERIN CEN r RIA l.
ACRIC ASSOCIATION.

day oil August next, Wnlcn Is ue uay OF tue ui'H
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 will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
srable that all persons having articles for 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
3D. The Association has ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for The saie-keepng
OF articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
officers and committees, Che owner taking check
for the same,l 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. Max A. Cooper Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM Ezzard. and James Nj Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exh-
ition sha have first been enteredn the Secreary's
book registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence--and price, II for sale-giving
to the owner corresponding card-and then classl-
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
doorkeepers and clerks, as shall be necessary Tor
the projection 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
exhibitior-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time OF nvention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
lt,,ro ,,utu
mode Of preparation of land and SOIL manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock age, mode OF raising, &c. II
Needle work or Painting, or any work Of Art, the
length of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, fby children or 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 the Society,
visitors patrons and members, all will take notice,
that a premium will not be awarded to any art-
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 several county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report Of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several countless of the inn
provements in farming, tillage, draining and manu-
ring which have been or 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 preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the serveral county
societies would make up an amount of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9Th 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricultura and M,nufacturersEx change
We request individuals who have 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
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no
tce like this all, the various articles 10 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-
mums for particular articles might be 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, embr 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, on 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-
ces cup worth 5 will be given, on the third best
= 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 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
evera general regulations, and in particular
or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
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 We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
Central Agric utural 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-
pdrlments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classeG 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 enjon
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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art-
| cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday
Thursday will be devoted to sales--Friday to gen
eral 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 tlunta 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 'istors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in
attendance upon the Fair.
Nth The citizens of Atlanta have nroyiled