The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-29
sOUTHERN CENTRAL
AHR IrTTI.TIyRA AL AS6(lfsl ALTON.

raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4th
day Of August next, which is the day Of the fifth
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 whl be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue 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.
| Cd The Association has an 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 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.
Sd. 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 exhi
ition, shall have first been eneredn the Sccretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, iffor sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
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 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, 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, statement
\ n nd m Of nv audl
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. Ii Horticultural or Agricultural Products
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time of planting, mode ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree 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
the value, uses, &c. Since this is the most reliable
mode of collecting such information 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 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 several county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoned 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 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 to be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
neutrality-suspicious. and MtnufacturersEx 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 alone for exhibition for
q premium.
7th. Premiums. 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 ofal 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 embracing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
fis 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 tho departments, premium of cup
worth ~ will be gwen; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth will be given on the third best
4 2. SO; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
| cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth is 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
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-
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 10 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 ultural Association.
| 10th The President upon consultation with
such members as he call Ito his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
pdrtments, and to these committees appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles classcG 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 enon
upon all to take notice that articles for exhibition
may oo IooeiVeu anu arranged Oh Tlddy anu Oat-
| 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 to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting on Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to sales-Friday to gen
eral re-deivery of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing the whole time.
18th. Any alterations of, or additions 10, the
foregoing rules. will be published at Atlanta early
Monday morning Of the Fair week.
| 18th. The annual 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
Georgn Railroads, to run accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, to
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,
To giY isitnrs the anpartiIaitu of the