The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-14
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SOUTH C&NT nal
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
/ raj Agricultural AssociatioQ, will bcheld
during the week embracing Wednesday,, the l4tl,
day Of August next, which is the day of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Conmittee charged with the duty of pres
cribiDg such general rules a. they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management of the approaching
FAIR have adopted the following
/ GENEaAL 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-
slrable that all persons having articles for exhb-
tloh shall be- on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mt'ec will be there ready to receive them.
ID. The Association has an ample fund, and will.
IN all cases. become responsible for the saie-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 Fair, which
will be announced beforehand, in ample time TO
give them opportunity 10 recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Association.
3d. Marx A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard, and James M. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi-
tion sha' have first been enteredin the Sccretarys
book iegistry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-giying
to the owner a corresponding Garland then CLASH
fed 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, ard
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, If Machine, 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 ofcultivation If 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 &c. 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 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 serveral county Socie-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tilage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes OF preparation time ofplanting 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
neutrality-suspicious. and NJ +: nu Exchange
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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium.
18th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in mo-
tice like this all, the various articles to which pre-
mums 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 II, and yet richly deserving
premiums, lest therefore the announcement of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
sOmento ali exclusion ofal 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, embI acing
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to conc. The only
regulation further necessary on this point perhaps
- that, on all articles OF the highest merit in the
department of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plemeuts, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments premium Of a cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S will be given on the third best
3 so I; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
mcnts a cup worth S will be given on the second
best q SO on the third an honor; on the fourth
I'd honor On MINER and cellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dol,ars--these how
ever,are general regulations, and particular case
| or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule
| 8th hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
fruits, flowers paintings, needle work, &c. They
arc cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
in many departments of the fair is absolutely ne
cessary to proper management
9Th The facilities of getting 10 this central
point induce us'to invite, and to expect tho pre-
scnce 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 tits in namc aSouthern
Central Agric ultural Association.
nth. The President upon consultation with
such members he can call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| pdrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classec and arranged in their respective
departments. lii 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
mittees proceed at once to the examination of art-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting ON Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes-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 Atlanta early
i 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 Bllups, Of Athens, Georgia
Il 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