The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-08
SOUTHERN CEN TRIAL
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
TIME Fifth Annual Fair Of the Southern Cent
raj Agricultural Association, will beheld
during the week embracing Wednesday, the llth
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 De
opened for visitors Monday morning, ana con
tinue open until Friday evening 1t is therefore de-
sirabe that all persons having articles for exhiol-
ton, shall be on the ground as early as FRIDAY or
Saturday, the 9th and 10th August when a Com
mittee will be there ready to receive them :,
I'd. The Association has an ample iund, ana Will
in all cases become responsible for the saie-keePng
oil articles which may be placed in the hands OF Its
officers and committees, Uhe owner taking check
for the samc) until the close OF the FAR, which
will be announced beforehand, IN ample time 10
give them opportunity TO recover their goods, ana
to prevent thereby the leaving oil 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 ior exhi-
ition, sha have first been eneredln the secretary
book or registry--then labelled with the owners
name and resdence-and price, if for sale-giving
to the owner corresponding Garland then classi-
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 Machine, statement
of is powers and uses COST time of invention, 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 ofcultivation. If an Animal,
the pedigree or stock, age, mode ofrasing, &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 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 legible hand, and in style fit at once for the
press.
5th The delegations of the serveral county Socie-
ties are 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 ofpreparaton. 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 serycral 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 NJ knufacturers Exchange
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 sale, and not alone for exhibition for
a premium
7th. Premiums. 1t is impossible to name in ano-
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 mightbc construed by
someinto exclusion Of all articles unannounccd,
the Committee requests the people generally to
observe, that it is intended to give the action of
the Association the very wdcst'scope embracing
every thing that is ingenious 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, all articles of the highest merit in the
department Of Stock, Mechanics, Agricultural In
pements, and valuable improvements or inventions
in any of the departments, premium Of cup
worth 8 10 will be given on the second best arti-
ces cup worth VS. 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 SIS will be given on the second
best $ 3 so; on the third honor; on the fourth,
| Cd honor. On miner and misce laneous articles,
premiums from one to three dollars--these, how
lapc al l,,,>
or of peculiar merit the committees will be
permitted, indeed are requested, to vary the rule.
| 9Th. hall will be prepared and assigned parti-
culary 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 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 whatitis in name, Southern
Central Agric utural Association.
10th. The President upon consultation with
such members as he call to his aid, shall appoint
committees and assign to them theirrespectve de-
pGrtments, and to these committees so appointed
the committee of reception shall furnish lists of the
articles cassec and arranged in their respective
departments order to the perfection of this
|
these regulations, will here repeat, and cnjoin
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 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 Friday to gen
eral 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.
10Th. 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 nave the prospect OF
making arrangements with the Macon, State and
Georgia Railroads, to run accommodation cars