The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-10

| j rnl Agricultural Association, will bchcd
during tho week embracing "Wednesday, the lath
day Of August next, which il the day Of the fifth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
lhe Committee charged with tho duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem no.
cessary TO aprOper management of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LIST The Fair Grounds and Buildings Will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening. Ii is therefore de-
sirable that all persons having articles for exhibit
ton, shall be the ground as early as FRIDAY OF
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
all cases, become responsible for the safc-keeping
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF It's
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 Nj. Calhoun, are
appointed committee whose duty IT shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds Tor exhi
ition, sha have first been enteTedin the Secretarys
book or registry---then labelled wth the owners
name and resdence--and price, II Tor saio--givlhg
to the owner corresponding card-and then ciassi-
fed and arranged by departments, and in such order
to facilitate the labors of the several committees
on premiums and also to employ such ponce ana
doorkeepers and clerks shall be necessary for
the protection Of the grounds and buildings, and
such clerks they may need IN the arrangement
and labelling oil articles
4th. There will positively be required in all
cases, minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--,he 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
maker. IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation Of land and soil, manure and
time of planting mode ofcultiyation. If am Animal,
the pedigree stock, age mode oil raising, sc. II
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 per.ons
tie value, uses sc. 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 a premium ill not be awarded to any arti-
Gle, whatever lis merit, unless ceompanicd by
illustrative and explanatory statements, made oul
iii Iegible hand, and in style tit at once for the
press.
9Th. The delegations of the several county Socic-
ties arc requested and enioined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
proyements in farming, tlage, draining and manu-
ring, which have been or are in progress of being
adopted The leading products of their countless
the modes ofpreparation. time tpantng 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
SouthernAgricultura and :nufacturcrsE Exchange
Wp nd Ia -utt< hapo e
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
as choice seeds, machines, stock &c---to carry
them there for sale, aud not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums 1t isimpossble to name in no
tce 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 theu elOre the announcement of pre-
mums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto 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 wdesl'scope, cmbl acing
every thing that is ingenious useful IN business
or art. All them with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, 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 III will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth S will be given, on the third best
= 50 on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
| cles of the highest merit in the remaining depar.
ments cup worth IS will be given; on the second
best 3 2 SO; on the third an honor on the fourth
I'd honor. On MINER and miscellaneous articles
premiums from one 10 three dollars--these how
everarc general regulations, and particular case
or cases OF peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed requested, to vary the rule
9th. hail 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 20 this central
point induce usfo 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 lis in name Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
nth 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 so appointed
the committee Of reception shall furnish lists Of the
Articles classeC and arranged in their respective
departments. Ill order to the perfection of this
arrangement, the committee appointed to publish
these regulations, will here repeat, and enoin
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
mltees proceed at to the examination of arti-
cles, and thereby have ample time to make their
reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will be devoted to saes-Friday to gen
eral re-devcry 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
18th. 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 accommodation cars
early every morning and late in the afternoon, 10
Griffin. Marietta, Stone Mountain, and Decatur,