The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-10
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CpvcUruTJJRAL ASSOCIATION.

AGRICULTURAL ARTICULATION.
flNHE Fifth Annual Far oil tho Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, will behed
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 rulea 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 Will be
opened for visitors Oh Monday morning, and con
tinue open until Friday evening II Is therefore de
sirable that all persons having articles Tor exhibi-
ton, shall be on the ground early as Friday or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when CON-
mttce 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
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. Marx 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 exhi-
ition, sha have first been enteredin the Secretarys
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence--and price, flor saie-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, q minute and accurate written statement
illustrating and explaining every article sent for
exhibition--the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il a Machine, statement
of is powers and uses, cost, time ofinventiOn, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor
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 OF stock, age, mode Of raising, &c. If
Neede-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
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 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 tit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations of the serveral county Soce-
ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon
consultation, report of the present condition of
Agriculture in their several counties, of the i'm
provements in farming, tiage, 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 serveral county
societies would make up an amount Of valuable
information 10 be sent out in the published trans
actions of the Society. f
9th. II is desirable to make the Fair Central
neutrality-suspicious. and Manufacturers Exchange
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.
It'll. Premiums. 1t 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 ofal articles unannounced
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, hat it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very widest'scopc, embracing
every thing that is ingenious or useful IN business
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
plements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any OF the departments, a premium of cup
worth 10 will be given; on the second best arti-
cles cup worth S will be given, on the third best
2. so on the fourth an honor. And on all art-
cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth Us will be given on the second
best s 9. so on the third an honor; on the fourth,
81 honor IN m mic lnu 81, Io
premiums from one TO three dolars--these, how
ever ARE general regulations and in particular case
| or cases of peculiar merit the committees will be
| permitted, indeed are requested to vary the rule
| 9Th. A hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
cularly to the Ladies for their garden products,
| fruits, ilowers 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-
scnce 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 in name Southern
Central Agric ultural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call 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
aitcies clasSeG 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
mttees 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 gen
era re-delivery Of articles. The exhibition con-
tinuing 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 Biups, 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