The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-26

AGRICULTURAL ASSOClAIlON.
lYvTIE Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent,
during the week embracing Wednesday, the 4th
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
critiDg 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 De
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tnue open until Friday evening II IS therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles tor exhbi-
ton, shall be on the ground 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 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 to recover their goods, and
TO prevent thereby the leaving OF any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment OF the
| Association.
| 3D.. Mark 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 exhl-
tion sha have first been enteredin the Secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residcnce--and price, ffor sale-gvihg
to the owner corresponding card-and then ciassl-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
as facilitate the labors 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 Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time of invention, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode Of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultvation. IL an Animal,
the pedigree stock age, mode of raising, &c. If
Neede-work 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 peraons
the 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 legble 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, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the inn
provemcnts in farming, tiliage, draining and manu-
ring which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes appropriation. 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
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
q premium.
7th. Premiums. 1T is impossible to name in 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
someinto an exclusion OF all 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, 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 como. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is that on all articles of the highest merit i'm the
plements and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, premium of cup
worth 10 will be given on the second best arti-
Giles cup worth VS. will be given, on the third best
/ - so; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
Giles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
4 ments cup worth 5 will be given on the second
best g. SO on the third an honor; on The fourth,
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
| premiums from one TO three dollars--these, how
evera 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-
| culariy to the Ladies for their garden products,
| fruits, flowers paintings, needle work, &C.. They
are cordially invited to attend. Their assistance
I 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
| rida. We hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
| Cxhtral Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members he call his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pfrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classeG and arranged in their respective
| departments. In 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-
4 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.
18th. Any alterations Of, or additions to, the
foregoing rules, will be published at Atante 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 Bups, 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, isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations the good Hotels at those places while in