The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-27
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AEQuNUJU .rIfRAI SRO(,l ITO n .

TIME Fifth Annual Fair of the Southern Cent
/ raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the ! itt
day Of August next, which is the day Of the filth
annual meeting at Atlanta Georgia
The Committee charged with the duty of pres
crbing 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 will be
opened for visitors on Monday morning. and con
tinue open until Friday evening. IL Is therefore de-
srabe that all persons having articles for "shlbl-
ton, shall be the ground as early as FRIDAY or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when j C)m-
m'ttee will be there ready to receive them.
I'd, The Association has AN ample fund, aNd will,
IN all cases. become responsible for the safe-kceI ing
OF 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 to recover their goods, and
to prevent thereby the leaving Of any goods or
articles unprotected after the adjournment Of the
| Assoc aton
3D. Maxi A. Cooper, Richard Peters, David w.
Lewis, VIM. Ezzard and James M. Calhoun,
appointed committee whose duty it shall be to see
that all articles entering the fair grounds for exhi
ition, sha have first been eneredin the Secretarys
| book or iegistry-then labelled with the owners
name and residenceand price, iflor sae--givng
to the owner corresponding Garland then CLASH
| fled and arranged by departments and in such order
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
| exhibtion-the statement to be delivered to the
Secretary. For instance, il Machine, a statement
OF is powers and uses, cost, time Ofinventon, and
any other fact deemed valuable by the inventor or
maker. IL Horticultural or Agricultural Products,
mode of preparation of land and soil, manure and
time Of planting, mode ofcutivation If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode Of raising, &c. 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 peraons
tie value, uses, SIC. 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 fit at once for the
press.
5th. The delegations Of the serveral county Socie-
ties requested and enioined to make out upon
consultation, 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 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 to be sent out in the published trans
actions Of the Society.
9th. 1t is desirable to make the Fair Central
SouthernAgricutural and Northumberland
We request individuals who have a surplus of
choice articles, or who make them for sale such
| as choice seeds, machines, stock, &c--to carry
them there for sae and not alone for exhibition for
| q premium.
| It'll. Premums.-lt 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
somento an exclusion OF all 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 or useful IN business
or art All then, with whatever they have for sale
or exhibition, are invited to come. The only
regulation further necessary this point perhaps
is that, on all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural I'm
plemcnts and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium of cup
worth \ 10 will be given on the second best arti-
cles cup worth IS will be given, on the third best
4 : z 30 on the fourth an honor And on all arti-
Giles OF the highest merit in the remaining depart
ments cup worth i S will be given on the second
best g SO on the third an honor on the fourth,
Cd honor. On miner and misccll aneous articles
premiums from one TO three doars--these, how
cverare 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-
culary 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
Jth. The facilities OF getting TO 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 in making
this institution indeed what it is in name Southern
! Central Agric ultural Association.
10Th The PRESIDENT upon consultation with
such members as he can call to his aid shall appoint
committees and assign to them their respective de-
| ptfrtments, 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 thus
| 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-
cies, and thereby have ample time to make their
| reports to the annual meeting Wednesday.
Thursday will! be devoted to sales-Frday to gen
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 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 'sitors the opportunity of the accommo-