The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-06
SOUTH EHN CEN L RIA l..
AGRICJILTURAL A6S(lClATION


annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
cribing such general rules as they may deem ne
cessary 10 proper management Of the approaching
Fair, have adopted the following
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Ist 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 ior 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.
ID The Association has an ample fund, and VIII,
in all cases. become responsible for the safe-keepDg
oil articles which may be placed in the hands Of its
officers and committees, (the owner taking check
for the samc,) 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. Max 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, sha lhave first been eneredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence--and price, iffor sale--giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
fled 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
Of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinvention, 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 ofcutivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &c If
Needle work or Painting, OF 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 Iegible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties requested and cnjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition Of
Agriculture in their several counties, Of the inn
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 of planting and mod
Of cultivation. The means and measures of preser-
wing and increasing the fertility of lands Accurate
Agricultural memoirs from the servcral 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
neutrality-suspicious. and Manufacture Ex 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 not alone for exhibition for
| a premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no.
tice like this ali, 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 therei the announcement of pre-
miums for particular articles might be construed by
someinto an exclusion ofall articles unannounced
| the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that 1t Is intended to give the action of
| the Association the very widest'scope, cmbr acng
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, on all articles of the highest merit in the
| department Of Stock, Mechanics Agricultural I'm
plemens, and valuable improvements or inventions
| in any of the departments, premium of cup
| worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
|
| 50. so on the fourth an honor. And on all arti-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
| ments cup worth will be given on the second
best 5 2. SO on the third honor; on the fourth
I'd honor. On miner and miscellaneous articles,
premiums from one TO three dollars--these, how
everare general regulations, and in particular case
| or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
| Sth A 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 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. VIC hope they will unite with us in making
this institution indeed, what lis in name Southern
Central Agric 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 so 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 enjon
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
mitiees proceed at once 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 sales-Fridayt to gen
era re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition CON
tnulng 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 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
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
attendance upon the Fair.
18th. The citizens of Atlanta have provided
comfortable quarters for Committees and Officers,
and others engaged in the laborious business of