The southern press., 1852-01-01
UTHERN CENT RAL
AGRICuI.TUR IL ASSOCIATE

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i raj Agricultural Association, will beheid
during tho 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
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary to proper management oi the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
lst 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 exhbi-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittec will be there ready to receive them.
I'd. The Association has an ample fund, and will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safekeeping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers and committees, the owner taking check
Tor 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 il shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
iton, shat have first been enteredn the Secretarys
book registry-then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sae-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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
doorkccpers 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--ihe statement to be delivered to the
Soor roto tnuto oh sfota nf
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
Ncedle-work or Painting, or any work OF Art, the
length Of time bestowed on it, or the amount of
labor; the age, fby children da very old persons
tie 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 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 servera county Socie-
ties requested and enjoned to make out, upon
consultation, a report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their ccuntiees
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 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair a Central
SouthernAgricultura and NJ nufacturers Elk change
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c---to carry
them there for SALE and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. PremiuWs.-It 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
somcintO 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, embI acing
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 on this point perhaps
is, that 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 S will be given on the third best
3 SO; on the fourth an honor. And OH all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given on the second
best 2. SO; on the third honor; on the fourth,
I'd honor On miner and scellaneous articles
premiums from TO three dollars--thesc, how
cyerare 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-
cuarly 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 is in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon a consultation with
such members as he call to 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 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
mitees proceed at once 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 gem
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
| Monday morning of the Fair week
| 12tk. 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 ,isitors the opportunity of the accommo-
dations ofthe good Hotels at those places while in