The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-13
ERIN CENT MA l.
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS

during The week embracing wednesday, ,no r.,
day OF August next, which is the day Of the NTH
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty OF pres
cribing 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 VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening II IS therefore de-
sirable that all persons having arcies ior exhipi-
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com-
mitee 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
OF 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 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 or
articles unprotected after the adjournment oil the
| Association.
Sd. MAX 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 cxh-
ition shall have first been enteredin the Secrearys
| book or regstry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, ilfor saie-giVihg
| to the owner corresponding card-and then ciassi-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as 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 protection of the grounds and buildings, ana
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
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, 4 statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
|
mode of preparation of land and soil manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. IL an Animal
the pedigree 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, il by children or very old persons
the value, uses, SIC. 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 premium will not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever it's 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 Socie-
| ties requested and enioned 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 appropriation. time ofplanting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility Of lands Accurate
| Agricultural memoirs from the servera 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
SouthernAgrcultura and acknowledgements Exchange
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, OF who make them for sale such
rs choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for SALE and not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in a no.
tice like this all, the various articles to which pre-
miums 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
somento 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 In business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sa lie
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
pements, and washable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium Of cup
worth III will be gwen on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
> 2 81; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
, cles OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
T ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. so; on the third an honor on the fourth,
"a honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one 10 three dollars-these how
general regulations, and in particular case
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-
cuiarly 10 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 70 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
rda. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what is in name, Southern
Central Agric ultura Association.
/ iUth. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrments, 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 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
mttees proceed at once to the examination of arti-
Giles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports TO the annual meeting on Wednesday
Thursday Will be devoted to sales--Frday to gen
era re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tlnuing the whole time
I'm. Any alterations of, or additions TO, the
foregoing rules, will be published Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
I'm. The annual Grafton will he made on
wednesday, the day of the Anniversary meeting,
Irnmedintciy preceding the reports of committees,
by Col. John BiIIups, OF Athens, Georgia.
|, '3th. The Committee have the prospect of
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
n Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Grhn. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
to CIV hsltors the opportunity of the accommo-
daiions fthe good Hotels at those places While in
attendance upon the FAR
. l4th L he citizens of Atlanta have provided
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