The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-24
1OUTHEhN CEN TRIAL
ACRffYt5fTtJNAL ASSOCIATION.

| TIME Fifth ANIMAL Fair Of the Southern Cent,
i raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the l4tb
day Of August next, which is the day OF the nth
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 VIII be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con
tinue open until Friday evening. 1t is therefore de-
sirabethat all persons having articles for exhibl-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when Com
mittee will be there ready 10 receive them
Cd. The Association has an ample fund, and Will,
IN all cases, become responsible Tor the
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.. 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 Tor exh
ion, shat have first been cnteredn the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and residence-and price, iffor sale-givihg
fed and arranged by departments, and IN such order
as to facilitate the labors ofthe several committees
| on premiums and also to employ such police and
doorkcepers 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. II Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting mode of cutivaton. If an Animal,
the pedigree stock, age, mode of raising, &C. If
NeedIe-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 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 serveral county Socie-
ties requested and enjOined to make out upon
consultation, a 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 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
neutrality-suspicious. andM snufacturersEx Exchange
We request individuals who have surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale
as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--t0 carry
them there for SALE and not alone for exhibition for
premium.
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in no
tice like this ALL the various articles TO which pre-
NUNS 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 Ofall 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, embr 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-
Giles cup worth y S will be given on the third best
80. 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 s 9. 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
everare general regulations and in particular case
Or nj Inrr rift ha n,
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, ncedle-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 us1to 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 tits in name, Southern
Central Agrc ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
p'frtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles ciasseG 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 enioin
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
mittees 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 saes--Friday to gem
eral re-deIivery of articles The exhibition con-
tnuing the whole time.
18th. 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, iisitors the opportunity of the accommo-